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

[Andrew Janke]

Thanks for the quick replies...

I forgot one (rather) crucial bit...  I want to find out what somevar
is but I dont want to run the script itself (thus the set -n
fiddling).



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On 23/05/07, Peter Barker <pbarker at barker.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> 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.
> --------
> 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$
> -------
>
> > a
>
> > Andrew Janke   (a.janke at gmail.com || http://a.janke.googlepages.com/)
>
> Yours,
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