The most common way this is used is to reload edits that you make to a resource
file -- like .profile -- into the current shell.
$> . .profile
or
$> . .bashrc
HTH,
- Travis.
Tommy Nordgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 18 okt 2006, at 22.47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just want to know what really is the difference when running a
> script as
>
> . myscript or simply myscript, i.e. the first one with a dot
> infront of it and
> the other one without a dot.
>
> Or does it matter only when invoking the script from within a script?
>
> Any thoughts will be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Running a script with dot (Which is really shell operator and not
the perl string concatenation operator
in this case) loads and executes a script in the current shell, IE
the script is not run in a subprocess.
The shells dot operator can only be used for shell scripts and not
for perl scripts.
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