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I am confused by "one only dot - space - shell script name" (like . myshellscript) and "path to shell script" (like ./myshellscript) commands. What for they are? I noticed the command . myshellscript ...
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t is a simple script What is different between two case below : $ . t and $ ./t
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What is the difference between . script.sh ./script.sh and source script.sh ?
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I have the following shell script TEST=/foopath export TEST It is in a file called test.sh and on which I ran chmod +x test.sh When I run ./test.sh I expect that I can then execute echo $TEST and ...
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According to the Flask official tutorial: Now, whenever you want to work on a project, you only have to activate the corresponding environment. On OS X and Linux, do the following: $ . venv/bin/...
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Possible Duplicate: Using ‘.’ to execute files in bash I was trying to figure out how to export my environmental via script instead of changing my .bashrc file. I found this old useful post that ...
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I've downloaded an installation package of weblogic server and in the README, there's this command to execute: Linux/Mac $ . ./configure.sh It's not the first time I see this. Why is there an extra ...
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I thought I will write a bash script to set the alias I frequently use, and also to change the command promt. Below is my script. #!/bin/bash # Make useful aliases alias c='clear' alias p='pwd' ...
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We have two scripts, first.sh and second.sh. We run first.sh from second.sh using the . (source) command. I am stuck at this script, first.sh value="myvalue" export value oldvalue="othervalue" ...
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#!/usr/bin/env bash scriptdir="$HOME" touch $scriptdir/foo.txt . "$scriptdir/foo.txt" || { echo "Missing '$scriptdir/foo.txt'. Exiting." ; exit 1 ;} echo "$scriptdir/foo.txt is present" echo rm "$...
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I have written a shell script named startup.sh which does a lot of things (basically start a lot of things for me after turning on my local machine) - here is an excerpt: #!/bin/bash gnome-terminal --...
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Please excuse me if I am not clear while asking questions. I will try my best to be very clear while asking questions. While learning Embedded Linux, we are setting an environment for our project. ...
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I caught myself out; I couldn't log into root after I made a script and called it from ~/.bashrc. ~/.bashrc: #... do stuff then run my script source ~/myscript.sh ~/myscript.sh: #!/bin/bash if [...
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I am trying to automate adding Homebrew to my path in a shell script, but these two lines do not evaluate inside my shell script: #!/bin/sh eval "$(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)&...
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I want to export all the variables located in a .conf. So I followed this https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/79077/56901 answer. setenv.sh #!/usr/bin/env bash DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}...
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