[BangPypers] source

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 17:56 +0530, Baishampayan Ghose wrote:
> > in using virtualenv and some other python programs I see the use of
> > 'source' - google search does not throw up anything useful. What is
> > 'source'? is it python or something else, and where can I get a link
> to
> > material on it?
> 
> It's a shell built-in and is equivalent to `.'.
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Bourne-Shell-Builtins 

thanks - and why did I not try man source?
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regards
Kenneth Gonsalves