Re: keeping something in memory after the end of script

If the "Next run" is started from the same shell, or a child of that shell, you could use "export"ed environment variables to persist data, as suggested here.

This is not an optical illusion, it just looks like one.

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Re^2: keeping something in memory after the end of script by fullermd (Vicar) on Apr 15, 2016 at 18:38 UTC
Not really (at least, not without some sort of nutso magic trick). The shell would be the parent process of your script; you can't mess with your parent's environment.	[reply]
Re^3: keeping something in memory after the end of script by NetWallah (Canon) on Apr 16, 2016 at 00:32 UTC
Point taken (++), but the magic is not too achene: `~$ chksum=$(perl -e'print qq\|Set by perl\|'); echo BASH says chksum is +$chksum BASH says chksum is Set by perl` [download] This is not an optical illusion, it just looks like one.	[reply] [d/l]