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Subject: Re: chpst -e question
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On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Vincent Danen wrote:

> So I'm fiddling and find that if I do:
>
> chpst -e ./env env
>
> I can see the values of IP and ROOT in the env output, but if I do something 
> like:
>
> chpst -e ./env echo $IP
>
> I get nothing.

The shell will substitute "$IP" with the value of the shell variable IP 
before chpst is run. So your command above is equivalent to:

chpst -e ./env echo

Try:

chpst -e ./env sh -c 'echo $IP'

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Charlie