Re: source from within a script

From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 06/13/04 

Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 11:36:12 -0400

In article <40cc6edf$0$22984$9b4e6d93@newsread2.arcor-online.net>,
 "Bishara Sabbagh" <sabbagh@arcor.de> wrote:

> Thanks Bob,
>
> of course if I source the shell-script or .profile at the command prompt it
> will work, but the problem is how to do that from within the shell-script.
> if I use the source scriptname the script would go on forever
> and if I append the constucted alias to my .profile file
> and source it, the command is not recognised as if the source command was
> not executed at all.

>From the bash man page:

       Aliases are not expanded when the shell is not interactive,
       unless the expand_aliases shell option is set using shopt (see
       the description of shopt under SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS below).

Could this be your problem? 

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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