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Emper0r	1 May, 2007 - 10:45 PM Post #1
D.I.C Head Joined: 7 Dec, 2006 Posts: 59 My Contributions	Hey guys, how do you make a variable accessible to a subshell in Bash in Unix?? Also, do you use for OR aka \|\| in a pathname? Is it \|\|? Thanks for any help.
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tody4me	RE: Unix Question 2 May, 2007 - 05:29 AM Post #2
Only Jenny Craig makes thin clients... Joined: 12 Apr, 2006 Posts: 1,349 Thanked: 5 times Dream Kudos: 100 My Contributions	What are you looking for in a subshell? are you asking in cli how do you use variables? For the OR statement in bash, it's \|\| and it sounds like you wanted to say something like if <path1> \|\| <path2> which would translate to if <path1> OR <path2>.
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ajwsurfer	RE: Unix Question 29 May, 2007 - 10:13 AM Post #3
D.I.C Regular Joined: 24 Oct, 2006 Posts: 298 Thanked: 2 times Dream Kudos: 50 My Contributions	There are several ways to do this, but the simplest and most obvious is to use the system() function from the stdlib.h lilbrary. Example: CODE #include stdlib.h ... int main() { ... int result = system("export var=5"); ... }
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