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Re: Working with environment variables.

aditya shukla wrote:
now this dosen't change the value of the variable which was set earlier
.Please help me in fixing this issue.
Are you trying to modify or add an environment var so the change is
visible from the calling shell? That's not possible. You can't change
the env var of a parent process.

Christian

Sep 11 '08 #1
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