Shell variables - help

[Ronald Pikkert]

>From article <1339 at ul-cs.ulowell.edu>, by mchetan at hawk.ulowell.edu (Munisuvratha Chetan):

> How do I tell the current shell to execute the shell program in
> the current shell, and NOT in a new shell ?

The command: . ./foo will execute the script named foo in the current
                     directory without starting a subshell to do the job.


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