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Old 07-23-2008
Ok, thanks.....to which file?
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Old 07-23-2008
To source or sourcing means to get settings from a shell script "imported" into your current shell. Works like
Code:
. ./.profile

So if there is something important set or exported for your environment in .profile, it will be "sourced" by the additional dot in the front of it.

That the files/shell scripts should be executable by the user of that crontab he meant.
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