Changing the environment in sh

[Dave Hammond]

In article <59 at csnz.nz> paul at csnz.UUCP (Paul Gillingwater) writes:
>I've Read The FM's, but I must be a bit dim - how do I change an
>environment variable, e.g. PATH, using a /bin/sh script, and have
>those changes effective in my login shell?

Instead of having the shell execute the script, as in

$ sh script
(or)
$ script          # assuming script is chmod +x

have the shell evaluate, or source the script:

$ . script        # `dot script'

Dave Hammond
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