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?
I doubt you can switch the shell in the middle of a script.
Why do you want to switch ?
the shells have similiar constructs save for a few ones.
Anyway, you can compile the second part of the script as a new script which runs in bash and invoke that.
#! /bin/ksh
# commands
# which
# runs
# in
# the
# ksh
# shell
#
. ./script-that-requires-bash
where
script-that-requires-bash is
#! /bin/bash
# commands
# which
# runs
# in
# the
# bash
# shell
If you export any variables in the ksh script, there is a chance that the inner script might not be able to see it. It depends on the way you invoke the ksh script.
