Shell variables - help

[Conor P. Cahill]

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 ?

What you need to do is "source" the sub-shell.  The way you do this
varies depending upon which shell you are talking about.  Both the Korn (ksh)
and Bourne (sh) shells use ".".  So if you wanted to re-run your .profile
and have its settings apply to your current shell you would enter:

	. ./.profile

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