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RE: simple useful functions
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Drew Adams |
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RE: simple useful functions |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:19:00 -0700 |
> > So what makes `.' more portable than `source'?
>
> It works in any Bourne or POSIX (derived) shell.
Swahili is a universal language ... among people who speak Swahili.
`.' works in the Bourne-shell family.
`source' works in the C-shell family.
`bash' and `zsh' support both.
If you want it to be _portable_, then test the value of argument SHELL and DTRT.
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