[clug] Amusing little /bin/sh question..

[Peter Barker]

On Wed, 23 May 2007, Andrew Janke wrote:

> How can I get what the value of somevar in another script, for example

Would it be possible to just "source" the first script from the second?

e.g.
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pbarker at apiomerus:~/test2$  cat > a.sh
#!/bin/sh

somevar="a-value"
pbarker at apiomerus:~/test2$ cat > b.sh
#!/bin/sh

source a.sh

echo "somevar=$somevar";
pbarker at apiomerus:~/test2$ chmod +x b.sh
pbarker at apiomerus:~/test2$ ./b.sh
somevar=a-value
pbarker at apiomerus:~/test2$
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> a

> Andrew Janke   (a.janke at gmail.com || http://a.janke.googlepages.com/)

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