Re: [newbie] UNIX INTRO: Shells, redirection

[Dan Brown]

From: Andy Goth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Alternately, you can call a shell and tell it to run the shell script
> file.  "sh printpwd" should do the trick... is this right?  In most
> shells, ". printpwd" (notice the period) will run a shell script as

    Both of those will run a script, but there's a difference.  "sh
printpwd" will run the script in a new instance of the shell.