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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Switching shells in UNIX Scripts Post 88975 by Scoobiez on Thursday 10th of November 2005 10:50:12 AM
Old 11-10-2005
Switching shells in UNIX Scripts

Solaris

Newbie here to scripting in UNIX/SOLARIS.
What I am looking to do is, once the script is
executed, switch to /bin/bash shell and continue
to execute the script.

The problem I run into is once the script switches to the Bash
shell, the script stops, and does not execute the remainder of the script.

Script looks like:

clear
/bin/bash to switch to Bash shell

Then the remaider of the script to execute

Anyone know how I can switch shells in a script and still have the script execute the lines below the switch?

Smilie
 

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ATF-SH(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 ATF-SH(1)

NAME
atf-sh [-s shell] -- interpreter for shell-based test programs SYNOPSIS
atf-sh script DESCRIPTION
atf-sh is an interpreter that runs the test program given in script after loading the atf-sh(3) library. atf-sh is not a real interpreter though: it is just a wrapper around the system-wide shell defined by ATF_SHELL. atf-sh executes the inter- preter, loads the atf-sh(3) library and then runs the script. You must consider atf-sh to be a POSIX shell by default and thus should not use any non-standard extensions. The following options are available: -s shell Specifies the shell to use instead of the value provided by ATF_SHELL. ENVIRONMENT
ATF_LIBEXECDIR Overrides the builtin directory where atf-sh is located. Should not be overridden other than for testing purposes. ATF_PKGDATADIR Overrides the builtin directory where libatf-sh.subr is located. Should not be overridden other than for testing purposes. ATF_SHELL Path to the system shell to be used in the generated scripts. Scripts must not rely on this variable being set to select a specific interpreter. EXAMPLES
Scripts using atf-sh(3) should start with: #! /usr/bin/env atf-sh Alternatively, if you want to explicitly choose a shell interpreter, you cannot rely on env(1) to find atf-sh. Instead, you have to hardcode the path to atf-sh in the script and then use the -s option afterwards as a single parameter: #! /path/to/bin/atf-sh -s/bin/bash ENVIRONMENT
ATF_SHELL Path to the system shell to be used in the generated scripts. SEE ALSO
atf-sh(3) BSD
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