[clug] Braindead shell?

[Kim Holburn]

At 5:41 PM +1100 2004/03/24, Kim Holburn wrote:
>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
>

If you want to reset them the simplest way is to do it like this (all happens in a subshell:

(
eval `printenv | sed -e 's/=.*$//; s/^/unset / '`
PATH=(whatever)
do stuff
)
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