Adding environment variables to bash.

[Fredrik Lundh]

John Lawrence wrote:

> You can make a command use the current shell though if you use the '.' 
> command e.g.:
> 
> jl > cat env.sh
> export TEST='hello'
> 
> jl > ./env.sh && env | grep TEST          #Doesn't set TEST in parent shell
> jl > . ./env.sh && env | grep TEST          #Adding '. ' before the 
> command uses the same shell
> TEST=hello

doesn't exactly work for Python scripts, though:

$ cat env.py
#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
os.environ["TEST"] = "hello"

$ . ./env.py && env | grep TEST
import: unable to open X server `'.
bash: os.environ[TEST]: command not found

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