bash - export doesn't work

Question

I\'m missing something very elementary. Under Mac OS X. I\'ve tried chmod 0777 setdir.bsh. Must be something wrong with my settings.

#!/bin/bash                          


        

Answer 1

export makes the variable available to subprocesses, not parent processes.

Can you source this file instead ? e.g.

$ . setdir.bsh

That will execute the file in the current process i.e. the shell itself.