[TriLUG] bash script question

Tobias Gloth gloth at geomagic.com
Mon Aug 20 17:38:24 EDT 2001


On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 05:25:15PM -0400, Chris Merrill wrote:
> What are my options? Can I execute the script in some 
> way that doesn't create a child script?

Call it either using

  . <child-script>   # works with the standard unix shell, I believe

or using

  source <child-script>   # bash extension

-Tobi




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