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From: lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: source command on ksh?
Message-ID: <1809@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 1 Nov 88 14:23:18 GMT
References: <17396@adm.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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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?"
>How do I do it on ksh?

Use the `dot' command:

	. filen [arg ...]

Where filen is the name of the file to be sourced and [arg ...] are
optional arguments.
-- 
Larry Cipriani, AT&T Network Systems, Columbus OH,
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