[clug] Braindead shell?

Kim Holburn kim.holburn at anu.edu.au
Wed Mar 24 06:41:49 GMT 2004


At 3:55 PM +1100 2004/03/24, Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au wrote:
>So I have a Perl script that works perfectly when run from my login, but it complains
>bitterly when run in cron where it can't find stuff like FlexLM and Oracle.
>
>Is there an easy means of (temporarily) nuking PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, ORACLE_HOME
>and all the other assumed variables within an xterm? That is, easier than writing another script
>to un-set and re-set them?

eval `printenv | grep -v ^PATH= | sed -e 's/=.*$//; s/^/unset / '`
unset PATH

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