On Apr 08, 2005, at 12:32, Charlie Brady 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'

dOh!

Perfect, thanks for the enlightenment, Charlie.

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