topic Re: Universal Pathnames in Operating System - HP-UX

Universal Pathnames

Daniel Kennedy — Thu, 18 Jul 2002 18:48:41 GMT

I have been trying to set my environment variables for OpenView. I execute the /ov.envvars.sh. I then use the ???echo $PATH??? command, but unfortunately I don???t receive the any OV variables. What step am I missing?

Re: Universal Pathnames

Hai Nguyen_1 — Thu, 18 Jul 2002 18:54:20 GMT

If you source your env program like this

# . /ov.envvars.sh

then you should see your new paths.

The way you did it means that
you ran the program in a subshell. As soon as the program exited, all env variables set by it were gone as well.

Hai

Re: Universal Pathnames

Sanjay_6 — Thu, 18 Jul 2002 18:59:53 GMT

Hi Daniel,

Try

. ./ov.envvars.sh

echo $PATH

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: Universal Pathnames

A. Clay Stephenson — Thu, 18 Jul 2002 19:04:50 GMT

If you modify the ov.envvars.sh, make sure that you don't put any exit or return statements in as well or you will unexpectedly exit your shell since you are running in the foreground using the . (source) operator.