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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting control sub-shells Post 302213063 by MarkZWEERS on Wednesday 9th of July 2008 05:35:32 AM
Old 07-09-2008
control sub-shells
Hi all,

New to shell scripting, I would like to know if it is possible to pass commands to a shell, which has been launched by a parent shell.
Example:

PHP Code:
#!/bin/ksh
#
# Launch and command shells
#
. mySecondShell.ksh #this launches a sub-shell

#now is something like this possible?
mySecondShell.ksh -> ls 
Problem is that I cannot edit " mySecondShell.ksh". Goal is to automate software compilation (a command in a shell) and delivery (tarring, zipping etc etc).

Thanks a lot!!
Last edited by MarkZWEERS; 07-09-2008 at 06:41 AM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUSE

suspend

suspend(1)                                                         User Commands                                                        suspend(1)

NAME

       suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell

SYNOPSIS

   sh
       suspend

   csh
       suspend

   ksh
       suspend

DESCRIPTION

   sh
       Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).

   csh
       Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su.

   ksh
       Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcsu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       csh(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1), su(1M), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10                                                          15 Apr 1994                                                         suspend(1)
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