Re: How to export environment variable to parent?

From: Charlie Zender (zender_at_uci.edu)
Date: 11/09/03 

Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 13:20:58 -0800

Eureka!

In 15 years of using UNIX I never realized the difference between
sourcing a script and running it. Autodumbdacticism.

Thanks!
Charlie 

-- 
Charlie Zender, my_surname@uci.edu, (949) 824-2987, Department of
Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine CA 92697-3100

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