How can I reload the environment variables in a Bash Script. I am updating ~/.bashrc in the same script and want the changes to get reflected.
I have tried using
source ~/.bashrc The following is my script
#!/bin/bash echo $PATH echo "export PATH=\$PATH:/home/user/test" >> ~/.bashrc source ~/.bashrc echo $PATH Both the echos return the same value of $PATH. But when I run echo $PATH on another instance of bash it returns the newly added path.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
The following is the content of my .bashrc file (without the modifications from the script)
# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells. # see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc) # for examples # If not running interactively, don't do anything [ -z "$PS1" ] && return HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:ignorespace shopt -s histappend HISTSIZE=1000 HISTFILESIZE=2000 shopt -s checkwinsize [ -x /usr/bin/lesspipe ] && eval "$(SHELL=/bin/sh lesspipe)" if [ -z "$debian_chroot" ] && [ -r /etc/debian_chroot ]; then debian_chroot=$(cat /etc/debian_chroot) fi case "$TERM" in xterm-color) color_prompt=yes;; esac if [ -n "$force_color_prompt" ]; then if [ -x /usr/bin/tput ] && tput setaf 1 >&/dev/null; then color_prompt=yes else color_prompt= fi fi if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ ' else PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ ' fi unset color_prompt force_color_prompt case "$TERM" in xterm*|rxvt*) PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h: \w\a\]$PS1" ;; *) ;; esac if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then test -r ~/.dircolors && eval "$(dircolors -b ~/.dircolors)" || eval "$(dircolors -b)" alias ls='ls --color=auto' #alias dir='dir --color=auto' #alias vdir='vdir --color=auto' alias grep='grep --color=auto' alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto' alias egrep='egrep --color=auto' fi alias ll='ls -alF' alias la='ls -A' alias l='ls -CF' if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then . ~/.bash_aliases fi if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && ! shopt -oq posix; then . /etc/bash_completion fi 
