Shell variables in menus?

[William J. McEachran]

I use that method all the time from a menu shell script.
What is the getenv command being used?

Alternative is to pass the datestamp on the command line using one of the
-r flags.
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On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 at 14:35, Jay R. Ashworth via Filepro-list <
filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:

> 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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