Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> writes: > I say that somewhat tongue-in-cheek myself. Because sourcing files > removes the abstraction barriers of a stacked child process and > actions there can persistently change the current shell. Not good as > a general interface for random actions. Normal scripts are better.
You can still put the sourcing in a subshell if you don't want persistent changes. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
