01-24-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Scrutinizer
IMO source is a bashism.
I just tested [edit]
seven shells on two OSes. BASH, CSH, ZSH, TCSH, two versions of KSH, and busybox ASH(which is a stripped-down descendant of a fairly old BSD bourne shell). The
only one that did
not have 'source' was an out-of-date ksh. The newer KSH was fine.
So, while I can see why you'd be sensitive to the use of that keyword, no, it's not a BASH-ism, and would appreciate it if you stopped trying to blame every bad shell habit on it. Nearly every imaginable shell has it except yours.
I considered using
. but it's difficult to read, especially for people new to the language. They could easily skip the space and mistake it for part of the path.
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suspend
suspend(1) User Commands suspend(1)
NAME
suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell
SYNOPSIS
sh
suspend
csh
suspend
ksh
suspend
DESCRIPTION
sh
Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).
csh
Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su.
ksh
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ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
csh(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1), su(1M), attributes(5)
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