On 5/20/05, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ... > There is some confusion here. If we have a line: > export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/. > > in a script. What export does is have $PATH available to > subshells of > the shell running the script. If you source the script then the > subshell is the shell providing the command line and $PATH will > an > environment variable accessible to all programs running in that > shell. ... "source the script" means write a script? pardon, would you expand on that sentence, please? thanks, Thufir
