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Old 05-19-2010
'source' does not work in script

Any one know why my script does not work at line source, can you help me please?.

this is my script test.sh:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
cat temp.txt|sed 's/ and.*//'> final.txt
source ~/cat/filename
source final.txt > data.txt

I get the error like this:
Code:
test.sh: source: not found
test.sh: source: not found

If I put these two lines in script then it has error like above but when I test these two lines out side the script, these two like work fine. I really dont know why. I am really new in script , please help me.

Thanks

Kevin

Last edited by Franklin52; 05-19-2010 at 04:13 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags!
# 2  
Old 05-19-2010
.... 'cause "source" is unknown to Bourne shell (#!/bin/sh) - it's csh/tcsh specific
For Bourne/Korn/Bash use;
Code:
. ~/cat/filename

# 3  
Old 05-19-2010
Thank you very much. It works

Kevin
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