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Umanga

11-20-2009 03:24 AM

calling another script , preserve environment variables?

Greetings all,

My first (main.sh) script is going to call the second script (settings.sh).I do it as follows:

Code:

#script1 - main.sh

sh config/settings.sh

echo $SGE_ROOT

echo $ARCH

echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

second script is as follows:

Code:

#script 2 - settings.sh

export SGE_ROOT=/SGE6.2/Root

export ARCH=lx24-amd64

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$SGE_ROOT/lib/ARCH/

But when I run main.sh I dont see output for the environment variables I set in settings.sh ?

Any tips?

Guttorm

11-20-2009 03:32 AM

Instead of:
sh config/settings.sh
Try this:
source config/settings.sh
Or shorter version:
. config/settings.sh

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