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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: changing dir inside shell
Message-ID: <205@quintus.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 88 04:04:29 GMT
References: <16654@brl-adm.ARPA>
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In article <16654@brl-adm.ARPA> rbj@nav.icst.nbs.gov (Root Boy Jim) writes:
...
>1) If `sh' or `ksh' is your parent shell, type ". mover".
>   You may also use shell functions, or even aliases if you prefer.
...
>Note that sourcing a file is less flexible, as you cannot pass any
>parameters ($1, $2, etc) to it. With shell functions and aliases you can.

You can pass parameters to a sourced file using named variables.
E.g. suppose file "demo" contains
	echo $arg1
and you do
	arg1=example . demo