Shell variables in menus?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

Do I remember that the menu runner spawns a new shell for each line and
even exporting a set variable doesn't help?

I need to do something like this:

DATESTAMP="`date '+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S'`"
export DATESTAMP

And then pick up $DATESTAMP inside my prc tables with a GETENV()

Right now it's coming back blank, and I don't think that's fixable.

Is there a go-to solution for doing this kind of tagging at the scope of
a menu script?

Cheers,
-- jra

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