Posted by Gene on 01/18/07 18:55

maybe (i'didn't try it) system('variable="Hello World" && echo
$variable');

Christoph Burschka napisal(a):
> I tried to run several shell commands with system() in the same script,
> but noticed that things like variables and current location don't carry
> over between them. Essentially, each system() call starts a new thread.
>
> Is there any way to make this persistent, that is, to have this:
>
> system("variable='Hello World'");
> ...
> system('echo $variable');
>
> print out "Hello World"?
>
> Preferably short of having to put it all into a single call like this:
>
> system('variable="Hello World";echo $variable');
>
>
> --
> CB

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