Chas. Owens wrote: > On 10/22/07, Jenda Krynicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > snip > >> I wonder ... what language does this meaning of the verb "to source" >> come from??? I know I've seen the word used like this a few times >> alerady, but it still sounds completely off. I mean I could >> understand "use", "include", "call", but "source"??? >> > snip > > > It is also a verb in Korn Shell and BASH that means to run a file as > part of the existing interpreter (instead of spawning a new > interpreter): > > source ~/.db.prod.env > > also written as > > . ~/.db.prod.env > > > * http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=source > > It is also is a stand-alone command to interpret Tcl scripts. I'd guess Tcl was the original source of source and was adopted by BASH and other shells afterwards. I don't know anything about Tcl but maybe it has a group of functions along the lines of file-type file-name.
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