Re: [Chicken-users] a file system using Chicken

[Dan Muresan]

> On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 03:30:15PM +0300, Dan Muresan wrote:
> > While I understand the spirit of POSIX advocacy, note that this thread 
> > is about a Linux file system. Also, care to share the concrete solution 
> > in this case? What's the POSIXly correct way to load a script in the 
> > current shell ("." or "source" in bash, neither of which works in dash)?
>
> How about $(cat filename) or `cat filename`?

No. I'm surprised you've never run across the "source" or "." commands, 
they're fairly common. They execute execute scripts in the current shell 
(as opposed to spawning a new shell process). They're essential when you 
want a script to modify the environment of the current shell (e.g. set 
some shell variables, like the /etc/profile.d/* series). In my case 
though I was just micro-optimizing.


Cheers,
Dan