Rick Troth wrote:
If you invoke the command as:
. cmdname
It works just fine, since "cmdname" is executed in the current shell.
Yes, exactly.
But that cannot be done for a binary.
In other words, an "executable" cannot be "sourced".
If you're suitably determined, something like this could be made to work:
eval $(binary 2>&4 4>&1) 4>&1
Sure, it's grubby, gruesome and/or a Crude Hack.
I sometimes find the need to do something like his, but without the
redirections.
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