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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting "Odd" behavior exiting shell script Post 302403447 by DreamWarrior on Friday 12th of March 2010 02:04:55 PM
Old 03-12-2010
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Originally Posted by dennis.jacob
You are trying to execute the script in the same shell.

Use sh ./ex.sh to run it in a new shell, where the exit will get back to your original shell.
That won't work because then the environment variables I need to export won't get back to the original shell.
 

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