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<div class="paragraph"><p>To transfer the environment to the next step you can do the following:</p></div>
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<div class="title">Propagate environment to next step</div>
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<pre>$MT_MEGATEST -env2file .ezsteps/${stepname}</pre>
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<h4 id="_automatic_environment_propagation_with_ezsteps">Automatic environment propagation with Ezsteps</h4>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Simply give your step name an extension of .sh or .csh. The environment variables will be propagated.</p></div>
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<td class="content">aliases and variables with strange whitespace or characters will not propagate correctly. Put in a ticket on the <a href="http://www.kiatoa.com/fossils/megatest">http://www.kiatoa.com/fossils/megatest</a> site if you need support for a specific strange character combination.</td>
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step1.sh export SOMEVAR=$(ps -def | wc -l);ls /tmp
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step2.sh echo $SOMEVAR</pre>
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<div class="title">Specifying scripts inline (best used for only simple scripts)</div>
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