On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 12:08, David Cary Hart wrote: > I'm trying to export a variable to the environment and then test against > the environment variable the next time the script is run. > > While I can do this from the command line, when export is called from a > script it doesn't show up in printenv. What am I doing wrong? Environment settings can only be inherited. You must make sure that the variable is used in the same shell or a process started by the shell that exported it. If you want all your processes to see a setting you must set it in your login shell or in a file sourced by subshells as they start (i.e. your .bashrc). -- Les Mikesell les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
