Using different shells in one script

sanjay1979 · #1 (**permalink**) 07-16-2009

Hi,

Is it possible to use multiple shells in one script.
There are sometimes we need to club shell specific commands in single script.
for example in bash mode we use -e with echo to use Escape sequence but in ksh it is not required. How to tell a UNIX command to run in a specific shell.

Please help.

Regards

kodak · #2 (**permalink**) 07-16-2009

You can do something like:

#!/bin/ksh
some
ksh
commands
/bin/bash -c "echo -e this or that"

if I'm following you correctly.

Most shells have a -c (or similar) option.

sanjay1979 · #3 (**permalink**) 07-16-2009

Hi Kodak,

Dear still it is not working. I tried with simple one. On ksh I tried following command -
ksh> /bin/bash -c echo -e "first\nsecond"

but it does not give any output.

Regards

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