Re: [NTLK] [OT] Unix gurus: help!

From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com)
Date: Thu Aug 21 2003 - 07:36:32 PDT


On 21/08/03 09:52, "Andy Collins" <acollins_at_newted.dyndns.org> wrote:

> Hi Laurent,
>
> It looks like your running the C shell(?) and I've only done Borne, Korn
> and Bash but try this anyway.
>
> Try running the script by typing...
> . ./setEnv.tcsh
>
> Note the leading dot and space. The dot means "run it in my shell space"
> otherwise a new environment is started with its own memory and variable
> space, the prog runs there and when it ends, the environment is closed.
>
> With the leading dot space it run in you existing shell.

Hi Andy!

I think my mistake is that I used to use 'source' to read those variables,
not running the file as a script.

Thanks for the tip, might be useful!

-Laurent.

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