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From: sweh@tharr.UUCP (Stephen Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Shell variables - help
Message-ID: <1086@tharr.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 90 01:50:50 GMT
References: <1339@ul-cs.ulowell.edu> <669@atcmpe.atcmp.nl>
Reply-To: sweh@tharr.UUCP (Stephen Harris)
Organization: Power Microsystems Ltd
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In article <669@atcmpe.atcmp.nl> ronald@atcmp.nl (Ronald Pikkert) writes:
RP>From article <1339@ul-cs.ulowell.edu>, by mchetan@hawk.ulowell.edu (Munisuvratha Chetan):
RP>
RP>> How do I tell the current shell to execute the shell program in
RP>> the current shell, and NOT in a new shell ?
RP>
RP>The command: . ./foo will execute the script named foo in the current
RP>                     directory without starting a subshell to do the job.
RP>
And in C-shell use the command
	source ./foo
to do the same thing.

RP>
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