Universal Pathnames

[Daniel Kennedy]

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?

[Hai Nguyen_1]

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

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Daniel,

Try

. ./ov.envvars.sh

echo $PATH

Hope this helps.

Regds

[A. Clay Stephenson]

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.