From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-07-26T02:37:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and *NIX environment variables


On Jul 25, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Ben Zealley wrote:

> The question is this: if I call values.sh from within Ruby (with a
> leading period) will I be able to see the updated environment  
> variables
> after it returns, or is this behaviour specific to when one shell
> script calls another? (They're ksh scripts, if that information is
> helpful)

The second one, fortunately or unfortunately as the case may be. .  
<script> is the source command in ksh, it's equivalent to typing the  
contents of the shell script in the original file. Theres no why for  
a child process to affect it's parent's environment. OTOH if  
values.sh has simple value parts you may be able to parse the script  
with ruby to pull in the info.