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 …

Jun 21, 2016 · 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 …

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 …

Oct 1, 2014 · So the main difference is that you are sourcing a script that will update variables/aliases in the current shell vs (what the OP was doing) running a script which starts a …

That being said... +1 bump for asking a common question that should be answered for all newcomers to *nix systems. :) Building from source sometimes means the difference between …

The source command will: Read and execute commands from the filename argument in the current shell context. If filename does not contain a slash, the PATH variable is used to find …

Apr 10, 2017 · I want to try my hand at writing a linux driver. I am trying to set up my environment. My current kernel: $ uname -r 4.10.0-37-generic I then download the source code: $ apt-get …

Feb 23, 2014 · 5 Do 100% open source linux distro's exist? i.e. distros which contain absolutely no closed source components anywhere at all? Apparently distros like Ubuntu contains bits …

Apr 16, 2020 · When you say source and have two files, I am thinking that you are wanting to have the two commands available at the command line and want provider to set the variable …