[vox-tech] Bash script to setup environment variables

[Jeff Newmiller]

On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Mark K. Kim wrote:

> Keywords: bash, script, environment variables
> 
> Hello folks...
> 
> I'm doing some cross-compilation work so I need to flip environment
> variables on/off in a heartbeat.  I tried to write a script, but scripts
> run on sub-processes so the changes do not take effect on the parent
> process.  Is there a way, without having to type `source script` or `.
> script`, to make environment variables changes take place on the running
> process?

Use an alias to invoke the inconvenient-to-type command?

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