This is due to the implementation of shell interpreter. Each paragraph will launch a shell process, which means each paragraph are in separated shell sessions.
Best Regard, Jeff Zhang From: Mohit Jaggi <mohitja...@gmail.com<mailto:mohitja...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: "users@zeppelin.apache.org<mailto:users@zeppelin.apache.org>" <users@zeppelin.apache.org<mailto:users@zeppelin.apache.org>> Date: Saturday, September 23, 2017 at 2:54 AM To: "users@zeppelin.apache.org<mailto:users@zeppelin.apache.org>" <users@zeppelin.apache.org<mailto:users@zeppelin.apache.org>> Subject: shell interpreter variables Hi All, I am using the shell interpreter and noticed that although I can see the scope is global and shared in the configuration, any shell variable set in one para is not visible in another. e.g. para1 -- export x=1 #also tried x =1, without export echo $x #prints 1 para2 -- echo $x #prints nothing What am I doing wrong? Cheers, Mohit.
