Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!phri!marob!daveh
From: daveh@marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: source command on ksh?
Message-ID: <359@marob.MASA.COM>
Date: 3 Nov 88 17:04:12 GMT
References: <17396@adm.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Organization: ESCC  New York City
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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?"

In both ksh and sh, the dot (".") command does this, e.g.:

. shell_script

Dave Hammond
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