Re: changing %ENV in parent

[David T-G]

Peter, et al --

...and then Peter Scott said...
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% At 08:37 AM 7/9/02 -0500, David T-G wrote:
% >
% >...and then Peter Scott said...
% >%
% >% At 09:33 AM 7/6/02 -0500, David T-G wrote:
% >% >I want to add to $ENV{'PATH'} in the parent process from my script.
...
% >  `myscript.pl bash`
% >  `myscript.pl tcsh`
% >
% >for that would make it work, but I haven't found anything yet.
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% sh-2.05a$ echo $PATH
% /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/peter/bin:.
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% sh-2.05a$ cat stage1
% PATH=`stage2`
% export PATH
% 
% sh-2.05a$ cat stage2
% #!/usr/bin/perl -l
% print join ":" => qw(/sbin /usr/local/bin /etc);
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% sh-2.05a$ . stage1
% 
% sh-2.05a$ echo $PATH
% /sbin:/usr/local/bin:/etc

That's a step in the right direction, though I'm still left with a stub
file because I apparently can't have my script spit out

  PATH=/lots/of:/stuff

and read that directly (still dunno why).  Thanks for the idea, though.


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