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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to get environment of a "fresh" login shell? Post 302243315 by Miikka on Saturday 4th of October 2008 05:31:59 PM
Old 10-04-2008
You are correct, however, that is how its currently done as I mentioned in my first post:
Quote:
Currently, there are two ways of doing this:
a) start a new terminal each time a new environment should be taken into use
b) before sourcing, start a new shell, e.g. bash/csh/what ever, and then do the sourcing... And when done -> exit that shell to get back the login shell and then start a new shell again
The problem is that users would like to source those environment setting scripts directly from a shell without "start a new shell - source a script - do some stuff - exit the shell - start a new shell" cycle. So they just want to "source a script - do some stuff - source a new script - do some other stuff".

So what I'm trying to accomplish here is some sort of way to make those environment setting scripts to reset the environment back to what it was at the time of login and then applying new settings. One thing to notice also is that I cannot force users to modify their .profile to save the environment at login time.

I was hoping there would be some kind of way to use rlogin (or something else giving the same result) to get a clean login shell so that I could do the following in the beginning of each script setting an environment:

* rlogin to a new shell which does not inherit the environment of parent
* at rlogin shell: env > clean_env.txt
* at script which is sourced:
** remove all environment variables and source clean_env.txt
** add some new environment variables on top of that

I know I could do this with Java or C, but I really would like to stick with shell script/perl/awk...

Sorry if I haven't been clear enough with my question Smilie
 

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RBASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RBASH(1)

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rbash - restricted bash, see bash(1) RESTRICTED SHELL
If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a filename containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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