Setting Environment Variables with Shell Script from within Cygwin

I experienced the Problem that within Cygwin Environment Variables were not set after the script finished even if I called "export".
For Expample the following Shell Script (my_environment.sh) didn't work.

#!/bin/sh
MY_VARIABLE="Hello"
export MY_VARIABLE

after calling the script, there was no error message, but an "ECHO $MY_VARIABLE" didn't output the expected result.
Within Cygwin you have to call the shell script the following way, to persist the resulting variables:

source my_environment.sh

Eclipse WickedShell

Found a nice Eclipse-Plugin which implements the console in Eclipse. It also allows you to "collect" your favourite batch files. Furthermore it supports different console types. For Example you can also use your installed cygwin console.
www.wickedshell.net

Regular Expression for IP-Format

Here is the Regular Expression for the IP-Format. I used it for grepping different IPs from Apaches access.log

[0-9]*[0-9]*[0-9][.][0-9]*[0-9]*[0-9][.][0-9]*[0-9]*[0-9][.][0-9]*[0-9]*[0-9]

The only limitation is, that it's not delimited to 255.255.255.255 --> IP 999.999.999.999 will also be found :-)

Automated FTP-Put in Shell-Script

If you want to make an automated FTP-Put just use the next few lines in your Shell-Script.

#!/bin/sh
echo -e "open ftp.example.com\nuser ftpuser ftppasswd\nbin\ncd toDirectory\nput file.example" |ftp -n