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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to get environment of a "fresh" login shell? Post 302243298 by Franklin52 on Saturday 4th of October 2008 03:09:10 PM
Old 10-04-2008
You can start your scripts with this sequence:

Quote:
1. start shell_1
2. start shell_2 within shell_1, source your script_with_variable and do your stuff
3. exit shell_2 and return to shell_1
4. repeat steps 2 and 3
5. repeat steps 2 and 3
...
...
exit shell_1
REgards
 

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