The environment of the parent

[stuart at bms-at.UUCP]

In article <261 at mipos3.UUCP>, pinkas at mipos3.UUCP (Israel Pinkas) writes:

> he would like to place the typed-in values in the parents environment

> Any pointers as to how to get at, and set, the parent's environment would
> be helpful.

In *nix, you have to *be* the parent.  Other methods involve cooperation
with the parent.

You could make your command a shell alias which would
'eval' the output of your program:

chkenv() {		# SysV sh
eval `chkenv.prog`
}

'chkenv.prog' should output something like:

VAR1=abc; VAR2=def; export VAR1 VAR2

'csh' users need their own special syntax.
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Stuart D. Gathman	<..!seismo!{vrdxhq|dgis}!bms-at!stuart>