[SWLUG] Bash Export Question

[Gareth Bowker]

On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 11:40, SPUFI Doo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've a really simple question I can't get my newbie head around...
> I have a bash script which signs me on to a database, and I would like it to export the database
> name into a variable DATABASE.
>    #!/usr/bin/env bash
>    db2 attach to awdpss user db2admin using db2admin
>    db2 connect to misqwpdb user db2admin using db2admin
>    export DATABASE=`db2 get connection state | grep alias | awk -F"= " '{print $2}'`
>    export INSTANCE=`db2 attach | grep alias | awk -F" = " '{print $2}'`
> 
> If I run the command
>    export DATABASE=`db2 get connection state | grep alias | awk -F"= " '{print $2}'`
> on the command line, echo $DATABASE returns the correct value, but if I include it at the end of
> my bash script, echo $DATABASE returns nothing.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

Child shell scripts' variables don't propagate to the parent. If you
want to do that, try:

source ./script.sh

or

. ./script.sh

Gareth
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