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- What is the difference between . . and source?
When the script is done, any changes that it made to the environment are discarded script The above sources the script It is as if the commands had been typed in directly Any environment changes are kept source script This also sources the script The source command is not required by POSIX and therefore is less portable than the shorter
- Source vs . why different behaviour? - Unix Linux Stack Exchange
source is a shell keyword that is supposed to be used like this: source file where file contains valid shell commands These shell commands will be executed in the current shell as if typed from the command line
- What is the difference between . and source in shells?
2 source is there for readability and self-documentation, exists because it is quick to type The commands are identical Perl has long and short versions of many of its control variables for the same reason
- shell - What is the difference between sourcing (. or source) and . . .
What is the difference between sourcing (' ' or 'source') and executing a file in bash? Ask Question Asked 13 years, 5 months ago Modified 4 years, 10 months ago
- scp copy direction: what is source, what is target?
And most allow multiple sources before the final target if it makes sense to do so That includes scp Some commands (like the GNU versions of cp and mv) have an option (e g -t or --target-directory=DIRECTORY) that allow you to put the target first - but the default is the standard "source (s) before target"
- Where to download Linux Kernel source code of a specific version . . .
Is there a resource to download a specific kernel version source? For example, I want to get 2 6 36 2 sources to compare with this package and see what changes were introduced?
- If bash lt;file gt; works, why is source lt;file gt; throwing an error?
However, when you source something, it is run in your current shell which, because it is interactive, has already loaded the aliases and therefore the fi alias is recognized and breaks the sourcing
- How do I apply the changes to the . zshrc file after editing it?
You could source the new file, which would work for some changes, possibly including updating the PATH variable (depending on other lines) However, sourcing it would simply run zshrc again, and you might execute unexpected duplicate commands
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