[BangPypers] source

[Noufal Ibrahim]

Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon at au-kbc.org> writes:

> On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 17:56 +0530, Baishampayan Ghose wrote:
>> > in using virtualenv and some other python programs I see the use of
>> > 'source' - google search does not throw up anything useful. What is
>> > 'source'? is it python or something else, and where can I get a link
>> to
>> > material on it?
>> 
>> It's a shell built-in and is equivalent to `.'.
>> 
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Bourne-Shell-Builtins 
>
> thanks - and why did I not try man source?

I don't think it'd help. It's a shell builtin without a man page of it's
own. You'd either have to do "man bash" or "help source"

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