On Friday 15 March 2013 19:38:28 Harald Becker wrote:
> >"source" is bashism, and "." should be preferred for portability.
> 
> Definitely not! Even very old Unix shells (and alike) back in the 80th
> accepted both syntax forms (but shells are different and not all are
> standards conform). I do not know, what the standards documents tell
> about this, I prefere "source" in scripts (sh not bash) for it's better
> readability (and it's easier to search).

"source" is not in POSIX and thus is not technically portable.  dash for one 
does not support it.
-mike

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