shell script not executed

Question

I'm trying to set the environment variables in shell script. The command "source .bashrc" is not executed. As long as type the last line in the terminal, everything works fine. What's wrong with my script? thx.

echo "export CLASSPATH=.:$HOME/java/lib
export JAVA_HOME=$HOME/java
export PATH=.:$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin" >> .bashrc
source .bashrc

Answer 1

source .bashrc is being executed, but it only affects the shell that's running your script, not its parent shell, which is your interactive shell. In order for what you're doing to work, you would have to source your script (or, y'know, use ., which is shorter).