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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