Shell variables - help

[Stephen Harris]

In article <669 at atcmpe.atcmp.nl> ronald at atcmp.nl (Ronald Pikkert) writes:
RP>From article <1339 at ul-cs.ulowell.edu>, by mchetan at hawk.ulowell.edu (Munisuvratha Chetan):
RP>
RP>> How do I tell the current shell to execute the shell program in
RP>> the current shell, and NOT in a new shell ?
RP>
RP>The command: . ./foo will execute the script named foo in the current
RP>                     directory without starting a subshell to do the job.
RP>
And in C-shell use the command
	source ./foo
to do the same thing.

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