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Exiting the Shell
Name: Tom Date: November 17, 2002 at 22:25:35 Pacific OS: UNIX CPU/Ram: 64
Comment:
I'm trying to exit a the shell from a script but cannot get it to work.
I know why it will not exit. The problem being that when you start the script it calls another shell to run the script in. When you get to the exit command it terminates this child process and returns you to your parent process (The $).
One way around this is to execute the script using the dot (.) i.e . [script name].
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