how can I "." in csh?

Ian Kluft kluft at hpcupt1.HP.COM
Wed Jun 29 06:28:53 AEST 1988


rogerc at ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Roger Collins) writes:
> In csh, is there an easy way to duplicate the function of Bourne's "."
> command?  I want to input commands from a file and have them
> change the current layer's environment.

Yes.  Use "source" instead of "." in the C Shell.

Instead of
. script
type
source script

I believe that C shell had that feature first.  Of course, if I'm wrong,
we'll hear plenty about it.  :-)

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