On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Bill Freeman <ke1g...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Because the incantation is ". activate", not "./activate".  "." is a
> shell command
> a.k.a. source, which reads the file and executes it in the current shell.  It 
> is
> not a command to run as a sub-process.
>

As Bill says, . is the shortcut/original name of the 'source' command.
You want to run the contents of activate in the current shell (it sets
some environment variables).

I always type it as '. ./activate' out of habit :/

Cheers

Tom

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