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 …

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 …

Feb 27, 2019 · The original sh sourced .profile on startup. bash will try to source .bash_profile first, but if that doesn't exist, it will source .profile. Note that if bash is started as sh (e.g. /bin/sh …

Using source on dash does not work, only . works. My test with source with bash in POSIX mode worked, though maybe this is due to my version or compilation flags.

What is the difference between sourcing ('.' or 'source') and executing a file in bash? Ask Question Asked 12 years, 11 months ago Modified 4 years, 3 months ago

Sep 1, 2018 · When I added a vim plugin, VimAwesome document said that :source %. What does this mean? I'd like to understand % meaning.

May 13, 2014 · My comment is just a stronger statement of Ilmari Karonen's 2014 comment. It is factually incorrect to say ".bashrc runs on every interactive shell launch". A login shell is an …

Apr 20, 2017 · I think I read something a while back about this, but I can't remember how it's done. Essentially, I have a service in /etc/init.d which I'd like to start automatically at boot time. …

Jan 27, 2019 · I'm just asking out of curiosity, is there a way to obtain a 'pure' so to say copy of Unix? So, not OS X or Linux with Unix in the background, but simply Unix..

An alternative of source /opt/rh/devtoolset-4/enable is source scl_source enable devtoolset-4 The above shell script scl_source is more elegant than using a hard coded path (may be different …