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Subject: RE: exporting TERM from a script
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On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Alex Dyas wrote:

> > On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Alex Dyas wrote:
> > >
> > > Try running the script thus:
> > >
> > > $ . ./gonet
> > >
> > Hmmm, I get
> >
> > $ . ./myscript.sh
> > .: Permission denied.
> >
> > Where as
> > $ ./myscript.sh
> >
> > runs fine, just no changing of the parents env.
>
> ah, could be a ksh thing in that case. what shell are you doing this in?

It doesn't work from tcsh on Solaris.
It does work from bash on FreBSD.


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