Exporting variable

[alhassani54]

Hi

I have two scripts (script1 and script2). Script1 calls Script2.
I tried the scripts below by running script1. The result is null but I would like to have the result of abc = "y" in script1.

Thank you


Script1

#! /bin/ksh
./script1
print "abc="$abc


Script2

#! /bin/ksh
export abc="y"

 

[columb]

Script 1 runs Script2 (well, actually Script1 but I asume that's a typo) in a separate shell and, as such nothing doen in Script2 will affect Script1.

To get round this you need to use the '.' notation i.e:-

#!/bin/ksh
#This is script1

. ./script2
print "abc="$abc

script2 stays as you have it.

Ceci n'est pas une signature
Columb Healy

 

[Ogzilal]

Hi,

You can also use functions inside the same script.

cat script1

#! /bin/ksh
function script2 {
export abc="y"
} # end of function script2

# begin of script1
# call function script2
script2
print "abc="$abc