RE: perl exec question

[Glen Coakley <gcoakley at mqsoftware dot com>]

This is off-topic. You probably want a shell scripting/bash group. But,
since you have my attention.

The env. vars. should be inherited automatically but the function
definitions won't be. This is very easy to get around though. 

1) At the end of your first bash script, add:
	env >/tmp/env.tmp
This will save your env. vars. and function defs. into 'env.tmp'.

2) If you add any env. vars. from perl, append those to env.tmp (in the same
format that env wrote).

3) At the beginning of your second bash script source env.tmp, by adding: 
	. /tmp/env.tmp
	
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noel L Yap [mailto:yap_noel@jpmorgan.com]
> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 7:42 AM
> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: perl exec question
> 
> 
> My apology:  Sorry for the errant "Send" before.
> 
> My question:  I would like to exec a perl script that will 
> eventually exec bash
> (or whataver shell the user uses) without losing any settings 
> yrom the original
> shell (eg env var and function defs).  How can I do this?
> 
> If this is too off-topic, can someone point me to the 
> appropriate mailing list,
> please (I've found many perl lists, but not the right one)?
> 
> Thanks,
> Noel
> 
> 
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