Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]> 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" -- _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
