On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> as i mentioned, you need to execute the script with the "." command.  
> yes, the . really is a shell command -- it means "execute this script in
> the current shell".

Actually, "." is a builtin alias for "source." It's easier to explain this
to people if you give them the source command instead:

        source somescript.sh

which is a little more self-evident. =)

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