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From: ronald@atcmp.nl (Ronald Pikkert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Shell variables - help
Message-ID: <669@atcmpe.atcmp.nl>
Date: 10 Oct 90 14:18:22 GMT
References: <1339@ul-cs.ulowell.edu>
Organization: AT Computing, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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From article <1339@ul-cs.ulowell.edu>, by mchetan@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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