Clean way of re-running bash startup scripts.
exec bash -l
Suitable for re-running /etc/profile, ~/.bash_login and ~/.profile.
edit: chinmaya points out that
env - HOME=$HOME TERM=$TERM bash -s "exec bash -l"
will clear any shell variables which have been set... since this verges on unwieldy, might want to use
alias bash_restart='env - HOME=$HOME TERM=$TERM bash -s "exec bash -l"'
What do you think?
Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?
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. ~/.bashrcor. /etc/bash.bashrcanother way would besource ~/.bashrcorsource /etc/bash.bashrcBAR='ASDF'echo $BARASDFsource ~/.bashrcecho $BARASDFexec bashecho $BAR[nothing] note that exported shell variables *will* stay set.source ~/.bashrc... is this *really* what bash is going to call on invocation? Will it callsource /etc/bash.bashrcfirst? You could check the man pages and run them both in the right order, but I think that 'exec bash' is cleaner.env - HOME=$HOME bash -s "exec bash -l"env - HOME=$HOME TERM=$TERM bash -s "exec bash -l"