Shell variables - help

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1339 at ul-cs.ulowell.edu> mchetan at hawk.ulowell.edu (Munisuvratha Chetan) writes:
>How do I tell the current shell to execute the shell program in
>the current shell, and NOT in a new shell ?

Use the "." builtin command:
	. foo_bar	# executes foo_bar script in the current shell