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Old 06-04-2008
Difference between "." and sh
Hi All,

I am using kshell and want to know difference between running ksh using "." and "sh"

When we should run by sh and "."

Thanks
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Old 06-04-2008
The dot-command (e.g.: . myscript.sh) means read in the file in the current shell and execute it line-by-line

On the other hand, executing any of the following:

sh myscript.sh
ksh myscript.sh
myscript.sh

(assuming that myscript.sh has +x for me) results in calling a child shell and executing myscript.sh in the child's environment.

Obviously, in the first form, any change in the environment (i.e. by commands like "cd <another-directory>") will happen in the current shell while in any of the second forms, they are happening in the child's environment and the current one is left unchanged.
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