How to completely restart script from inside the script itself

garage_greg

I'm setting up a shell script with menues and sub menues, options, etc. But on each menu/submenu/etc, i need a "Go back to main menu" choice. I've already got the menu set up and it works fine, but i need a way to simply restart the script from scratch, reset all variables etc etc. Or a way to exit the current script and starting it again. I've tried to do this: ScriptLoc=$(readlink -f "$0") ./ScriptLoc But that starts the "new" script inside...

Originally asked by Moonbloom on Stack Exchange (askubuntu) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Yes, do exec "$ScriptLoc" The exec bash builtin command replaces the current program with a new one.

Full answer by poolie: https://askubuntu.stackexchange.com/a/356964 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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