>From the bash man page:
source filename [arguments]
Read and execute commands from filename in the cur-
rent shell environment and return the exit status
of the last command executed from filename.
[...]
It looks like source'ing a file executes the commands in the 2nd shell
program as if it was executing it in the 1st shell. Would that be the
equivalent to eval'ing in Perl? Anyone know?
FL
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Jay Strauss wrote:
> Is this only a perl thing?
>
> Cause I can have 2 shell programs and from the 1st shell program, I can
> "source" the 2nd and change the parent's shell.
>
> Jay
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 8:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Calling a shell pgm from perl to change ENV
>
>
> > On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Nicole Carlson wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Foo Lim wrote:
> > > > Sorry, I can't help you any more than that, I'm afraid. Child
> processes
> > > > should inherit the environment from the parent, but can't change the
> > > > environment of the parent, which makes sense when you think about
> > > > programming the UNIX environment.
> > > >
> > > > Anyone else wanna take a stab at this?
> > >
> > > I think you're right, Foo. IIRC, the *only* thing shared between parent
> > > and child processes is file descriptors. Everything else is copied, and
> > > changes to the child's environment will not affect the parent.
> >
> > Check.
> >
> > > WARNING: ugly and untested idea. Perhaps your Perl script could rewrite
> > > and re-source the .login or .bashrc or .whatever file?
> >
> > The only way you can change the parent's environment is to have the parent
> > receive suggested changes and process them itself. Communicating those
> > changes through changes to .login or .bashrc would seem inappropriate, but
> > a dedicated file could be used. The parent could even specify the name of
> > the file, created for the purpose.
> >
> > Somehow, I don't think this is the answer Jay wants, though. Dem's da
> > breaks. :)
