"source" comes from the C shell. The Bourne shell (and the Korn shell successor) did not have it.
Bash was probably the first to suck in both. -- Jim -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Harald Becker Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 5:02 PM To: Mike Frysinger Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: ash: "source <nonexistent file>" makes ash exit? Hi Mike ! >"source" is not in POSIX and thus is not technically portable. Not in POSIX? Wow, who removed this? Even old AT&T systems did understand the "source". ... and just a hint about technically portable: alias source=. ... and even dash shall understand "source" -- Harald _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
