source command on ksh?
Greg Onufer
exodus at mfgfoc.uucp
Wed Nov 2 02:34:11 AEST 1988
>From article <17396 at adm.BRL.MIL>, by Leisner.Henr at xerox.com (Marty):
> 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?
This question really does NOT belong in this newsgroup....
try comp.unix.questions, but the answer follows anyways:
.
Yes, a period. Try a period followed by a space and then the filename
of the file you wish to "source". I prefer source myself, a period
is not very self-documenting.
-greg
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