On 18 okt 2006, at 22.47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Just want to know what really is the difference when running a
script as
. myscript or simply myscript, i.e. the first one with a dot
infront of it and
the other one without a dot.
Or does it matter only when invoking the script from within a script?
Any thoughts will be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Running a script with dot (Which is really shell operator and not
the perl string concatenation operator
in this case) loads and executes a script in the current shell, IE
the script is not run in a subprocess.
The shells dot operator can only be used for shell scripts and not
for perl scripts.
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