export variables to launched process?

[Mark Waddingham]

On 2016-02-04 02:57, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> I've successfully exported variables to a process run with shell, e.g.:
> 
>     put shell("export somevar='Hello!'; ./test.sh")
> 
> ...where test.sh simply echoes somevar to verify that it got it.
> 
> Now I have a process I need to read and write to, but I don't know how
> to export variables to it - clues?

A process that gets launched either via shell or open process will 
inherit the environment variables set by the engine... So I think doing:

put "Hello!" into $somevar

put shell("./test.sh")
   or
open process ... for ...

Should both have the effect that the launched process will see 'somevar' 
as specified.

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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