Re: [ILUG] Bash Function

From: Stephen Shirley (diamond at domain skynet.ie)
Date: Wed 30 May 2001 - 09:47:31 IST


Not possible I'm afraid. The ( ) brackets means that the commands between
them are run in a new shell. You can't set variables in a parents
enviroment from a child process.

Steve

On Wed, 30 May 2001, Ross Davis wrote:

> No combination of brackets seem to work. Anybody
> got any idea if something like this is possible
> or another solution!?
>
> -Ross
>

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