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From: khb%chiba@Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - Sun Tactical Engineering)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: source command on ksh?
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Date: 1 Nov 88 06:01:16 GMT
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In article <17396@adm.BRL.MIL> Leisner.Henr@xerox.com (Marty) writes:
>A friend of mine is using the MKS korn shell on DOS and wanted to know:
>
>"How do I run a shell script in the context of the current shell?"
>
>On csh, the source command does exactly what we want to do.
>
>How do I do it on ksh?

. filename

Of course one can alias source so that it is .


Keith H. Bierman
It's Not My Fault ---- I Voted for Bill & Opus