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To: paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: bash .profile issues
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paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com> writes:

> well, IIRC, "source" and "." are equivalent: one is easier to type.

And one will get you in trouble when you forget and try to use it in
"sh" and "ksh" ("pdksh", at least).  (The learning curve of "bash" has
two slopes; one for learning and one for unlearning.  In this case
I also had to unlearn my first language "csh", which has "source" too.)

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