Re: export environment variable

Mohammad K. wrote:

I would like to accomplish something like this in a ruby script

export RUBYLIB=$HOME/MyLib/

ENV[‘RUBYLIB’] = File.expand_path(’~/MyLib/’)

Gennady.

This is going to be local to the script.
I want something like, global.

Mohammad

Gennady B. wrote:


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On 10/4/06, Mohammad K. [email protected] wrote:

This is going to be local to the script.
I want something like, global.

As far as I know, you can’t do that even in bash (that = export
variables from a subshell to the parent).

J.