Quick: Unix shell scripts, which sets environment vars
Peter Bateman
shediac92@hotmail.com
Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:29:06 -0300
The following was taken from:-
http://duplex.hypermart.net/books/bsd/201-202.html
"Exported variables exist in the environment space of the shell process.
When the shell executes a new child process (subprocess) it passes the
environment to the new process. The environment consist only of variables
that have been exported. By using exported variables you can pass global
information to any subprocess. Whether the environment is used by the
subprocess depends on the subprocess.
Subprocesses cannot change the environment of a parent process. They can
change their environment but the changes cannot be passed back to the
parent."
Regards,
Peter Bateman
>From: Tim Cummings <tim.cummings@frequencymarketing.com>
>To: "'oh@scanconsult.dk'" <oh@scanconsult.dk>, "'Rohde Dirk'"
><Dirk.Rohde@vpgroup.com>
>CC: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
>Subject: RE: Quick: Unix shell scripts, which sets environment vars
>Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 15:47:48 -0400
>
>Ole,
>
>In your script, after setting the environment variables, I think if you
>follow them with "export" commands, it will make those environment
>variables
>available to the entire process tree.
>
>Tim Cummings
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ole Hansen, ScanConsult [mailto:oh@scanconsult.dk]
>Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 2:21 PM
>To: 'Rohde Dirk'
>Cc: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
>Subject: RE: Quick: Unix shell scripts, which sets environment vars
>
>Hi Dirk,
>
>Yes - of course Quick has already started a child process; thanks for
>pointing this out.
>
>I will have to let the script write the result to a file or a table in the
>database, where I can read it from Quick.
>
>Mange hilsner / With kind regards
>
>Ole Hansen
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>Sent: 21. august 2003 17:41
>To: 'oh@scanconsult.dk'
>Cc: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
>Subject: RE: Quick: Unix shell scripts, which sets environment vars
>
>
>I'm not sure what is causing the error (check your file protection), but I
>believe that Quick starts a child process for any "run command" procedure.
>Thus, even if you are able to "dot" a script, you would still lose the
>environment variables upon return. The solution is to either use the
>"setsystemval" command or to set and export your environment variables
>before starting Quick.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ole Hansen, ScanConsult [mailto:oh@scanconsult.dk]
>Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 3:10 AM
>To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
>Subject: Quick: Unix shell scripts, which sets environment vars
>
>
>Hi all,
>
>I need to execute a shell script from Quick, and retrieve the environment
>variables, set by the script.
>
>The script works and the variables is set in the calling process when run
>manually from the shell with a dot preceeding the scriptname (.
><scriptname>) but when I try from Quick using RUN COMMAND ". <scriptname>"
>it fails with an exit status of 126.
>
>It is the leading dot, that causes the error because when I try RUN COMMAND
>"<scriptname>", I get no errors - but the environment variables set by the
>script are of course not available to GETSYSTEMVAL afterwards.
>
>So I guess that my problem can be re-phrased to: How does one execute a
>shell command from Quick using the same shell instance as Quick runs in?
>
>Any help will be highly appreciated.
>
>Mange hilsner / With kind regards
>
>Ole Hansen
>
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