Sep 27, 2016 · 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 …

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 …

Oct 14, 2017 · When I try to use source from the cron job (I have tried both directly in crontab and in a script called by crontab) it doesn't seem to work. I made a simplified version of my project …

Nov 7, 2017 · I accidentally sourced the wrong environment from a script. Is there any way to 'unsource' it or in other words to revert it and restore the previous environment? The obvious …

May 9, 2015 · 34 source is a shell builtin, so it cannot be executed without the shell. However, by default, sudo do not run shell. From sudo Process model When sudo runs a command, it calls …

Your example provides the same result, but the purpose of eval and source is different. source is usually used for providing a library for other scripts, while eval is used only to evaluate …

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 …

You have an alias which is overriding the builtin source (fix with unalias source) You have a function which is overriding source (fix with unset -f source) You are somehow not using bash …

Jul 30, 2020 · I've read that BASH_SOURCE should be populated with the name of the executing script (and it works!). But why does BASH_SOURCE hold the name of the executing script, …

Sep 26, 2021 · See also: emulate sh -xc 'source ./my_source.sh' or emulate sh -o xtrace -c 'source ./my_source.sh' in zsh to source the file in sh emulation (the .sh extension suggests …