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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Shell variables - help
Message-ID: <1990Oct11.000506.12384@virtech.uucp>
Date: 11 Oct 90 00:05:06 GMT
References: <1339@ul-cs.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
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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 ?

What you need to do is "source" the sub-shell.  The way you do this
varies depending upon which shell you are talking about.  Both the Korn (ksh)
and Bourne (sh) shells use ".".  So if you wanted to re-run your .profile
and have its settings apply to your current shell you would enter:

	. ./.profile

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