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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Shell variables - help
Message-ID: <14084@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 10 Oct 90 18:40:14 GMT
References: <1339@ul-cs.ulowell.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1339@ul-cs.ulowell.edu> mchetan@hawk.ulowell.edu (Munisuvratha Chetan) writes:
>How do I tell the current shell to execute the shell program in
>the current shell, and NOT in a new shell ?

Use the "." builtin command:
	. foo_bar	# executes foo_bar script in the current shell