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edit approved Sep 21, 2019 at 14:04

You mustcan run the assignment and echo test srciptscript in the same shell.

root@ijaz-HP-EliteBook-8560p:~# export foo=bar
root@ijaz-HP-EliteBook-8560p:~# cat test.sh 
   #!/bin/bash
   echo "$foo"
root@ijaz-HP-EliteBook-8560p:~# . /test.sh 
bar

this is just one way of doing it.

You must run the assignment and echo test srcipt in the same shell.

root@ijaz-HP-EliteBook-8560p:~# foo=bar
root@ijaz-HP-EliteBook-8560p:~# cat test.sh 
   #!/bin/bash
   echo "$foo"
root@ijaz-HP-EliteBook-8560p:~# . test.sh 
bar

this is just one way of doing it.

You can run the assignment and echo test script in the same shell.

root@ijaz-HP-EliteBook-8560p:~# export foo=bar
root@ijaz-HP-EliteBook-8560p:~# cat test.sh 
   #!/bin/bash
   echo "$foo"
root@ijaz-HP-EliteBook-8560p:~# ./test.sh 
bar

this is just one way of doing it.

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answered Apr 22, 2016 at 14:33

Ijaz Ahmad

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You must run the assignment and echo test srcipt in the same shell.

root@ijaz-HP-EliteBook-8560p:~# foo=bar
root@ijaz-HP-EliteBook-8560p:~# cat test.sh 
   #!/bin/bash
   echo "$foo"
root@ijaz-HP-EliteBook-8560p:~# . test.sh 
bar

this is just one way of doing it.