Korn shell scripting

[FATPad]

Friend of mine just posted this gibberish on one of our game related messageboards. I told him I would ask around cuz I'm such a good friend.

What does it mean and what's the answer?

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This is going to be a VERY basic question, but I cant get the damn syntax right.

Script A. Script B.

Script A calls Script B.

I want to pass a variable's values from script B to script A. I know I do this by doing

echo $variable

Now how do I retrieve that value in script A? In order to get some Unix functions to work, I have to use echo in another part of script B. I do NOT want that value in script A.

any idea?

I saw some code that look like

variable= `script B "var1 {var2_string}"`

that wont work if I have more than one echo in script B. What do I do?
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Thanks in advance.

[daddio]

Try this

scriptB:

#!/usr/local/bin/ksh -p # -- (Your path to ksh)
MYVARIABLE="hello" ; export MYVARIABLE

scriptA:

#!/usr/local/bin/ksh
. /$HOME/scriptB # -- Path to script B (Example)
echo $MYVARIABLE

[FATPad]

Thanks. I'll let him know.

[detoxed]

I dont like Korn.