source command on ksh?

Keith Bierman - Sun Tactical Engineering khb%chiba at Sun.COM
Tue Nov 1 16:01:16 AEST 1988


In article <17396 at adm.BRL.MIL> Leisner.Henr at xerox.com (Marty) writes:
>A friend of mine is using the MKS korn shell on DOS and wanted to know:
>
>"How do I run a shell script in the context of the current shell?"
>
>On csh, the source command does exactly what we want to do.
>
>How do I do it on ksh?

. filename

Of course one can alias source so that it is .


Keith H. Bierman
It's Not My Fault ---- I Voted for Bill & Opus



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