Hi all,

I am trying to set an variable within the shell file, however it does not take the set. I can only set the variable in the prompt instead.

#!/usr/bin/sh

echo "set ONE=1"


output file: test.sh
$sh test.sh
Content in test.sh:
set ONE=1

--------
$echo $ONE
ONE: Underfined variable

Anyone knows why is not working? How to make it work within the script.
Thanks!

-scng

I'm not sure what you're wanting. It seems that you run a script and test whether the environment variable is set after the script runs. This will not work - the envrionment variable has been set in a subshell.

Check out the source command or . (period) to execute commands which are contained within a script in the current shell.