Frequent Question: What Source Means Linux?
Contents Source Is a Shell Built-in Command Which Is Used to Read and Execute the Content of a File(Generally Set of Commands), Passed as an Argument in the...
source is a shell built-in command which is used to read and execute the content of a file(generally set of commands), passed as an argument in the current shell script. The command after taking the content of the specified files passes it to the TCL interpreter as a text script which then gets executed.
What does source mean in terminal?
source command runs the script in the current shell only. If you do not use source, then it spawns a shell as a child process and executes commands in that. For example- If you want to set a proxy environment variable in terminal and you have written the command for that in a script named “export_connect.sh”
Why do we use source in Linux?
The source command reads and executes commands from the file specified as its argument in the current shell environment. It is useful to load functions, variables, and configuration files into shell scripts. source is a shell built-in in Bash and other popular shells used in Linux and UNIX operating systems.
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