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 …

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.

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 …

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 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. …

Aug 18, 2013 · I suddenly came across the term "ephemeral port" in a Linux article that I was reading, but the author did not mention what it is. What is an ephemeral port in UNIX?

In my ~/.bashrc file reside two definitions: commandA, which is an alias to a longer path commandB, which is an alias to a Bash script I want to process the same file with these two …