A simple pair of Bash scripts for activating a conda environment in a Bash subshell.
You need to have the conda command-line tool installed and on your
path. You do not, however, need to let the conda installer modify
your .bashrc file in the, ummm, idiosyncratic way it does by
default.
You also need to be using Bash (the default Linux shell). (But modifying these scripts to work with e.g. Zsh would likely not be difficult.)
Copy conda-shell and conda-shell-helper to somewhere
on your PATH and then do hash -r.
Run conda-shell <environment name> in Bash to launch a subshell and
activate the named environment in it. To 'deactivate' the
environment, use exit to exit the subshell.