Environmental Variable setting

[nithink]

Hi, I would like to set up an environmental variable and use that variable inside a script so that I need not hardcode the path. To do this, I set a variable called 'testpath' in the .login and I tried to do a echo of this testpath inside a script. But it says
testpath: Undefined variable
p.s I tried to put the variable entry in .profile too but no luck.Your help appreciated. Thanks.

 

[olded]

Hi:

I don't mean to elaborate on the obvious, but did you try exporting it:

export testpath=/somepath

or

testpath=/somepath; export testpath

Regards,

Ed

 

[nithink]

Thanks Ed.

I didnt use export. First I tried using

set testpath = /somepath but it didnt work. Then I tried with

setenv testpath /somepath it worked fine.

Thanks for your suggestion. Does the export command work only in sh & ksh ?

Thanks

 

[olded]

Yes, you're right. export only works with ksh/sh. I should have picked up you were using csh when you mentioned using .login.

Regards,

Ed