Set parent env with csh script

Ned D Hanks sasc03 at dsachg1.UUCP
Tue Jan 10 00:05:00 AEST 1989


>From article <174 at v7fs1.UUCP>, by mvp at v7fs1.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt):
> I asked comp.unix.questions, but got only blank stares.  So,
> maybe this is a wizardly type question...
  ...
> Is it possible for a subshell to changes the calling shell's 
> environment?  How?

No.  The enviroment of the child shell is a copy of the parents and goes
away when the shell exits.

 _ __              __      _    ,
' )  )      /     /  )    ' )  /            /
 /  / _  __/     /  /      /--/ __.  ____  /_  _
/  (_</_(_/_    /__/_     /  (_(_/|_/ / <_/ <_/_)_


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