At 08:37 AM 7/9/02 -0500, David T-G wrote:
>Peter, et al --
>
>...and then Peter Scott said...
>%
>% At 09:33 AM 7/6/02 -0500, David T-G wrote:
>% >I want to add to $ENV{'PATH'} in the parent process from my script.
>% >Generally I know this isn't allowed, but I wonder if there's a way to do
>% >it.
>%
>% No. It's a Unix FAQ and Perl can't do it any more than any other
>% language. See 2.8 in http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part2/
>
>Yeah. I was hoping for a way to
>
> . myscript.pl bash
> source myscript.pl tcsh
>
>or maybe
>
> `myscript.pl bash`
> `myscript.pl tcsh`
>
>for that would make it work, but I haven't found anything yet.
sh-2.05a$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/peter/bin:.
sh-2.05a$ cat stage1
PATH=`stage2`
export PATH
sh-2.05a$ cat stage2
#!/usr/bin/perl -l
print join ":" => qw(/sbin /usr/local/bin /etc);
sh-2.05a$ . stage1
sh-2.05a$ echo $PATH
/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/etc
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