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sourcing in shell script

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ranjank

ranjank

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May 9, 2003
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Hi All,

Can we source a variable in bash shell script.I know we can source a file in bash shell script.

Rgds,
RK.
 
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A variable containing code ?
Take a look at the eval builtin.

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the 'source' keyword and therefore '.' does that, see 'help source'

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