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Explore Stack Internal Running a script the first way runs it as a child process. Sourcing (the second way), on the other wayhand, runs the script as if you entered all its commands into the current shell - if the script sets a variable, it will remain set, if the script exits, your session will exit. See help . for documentation.
Running a script the first way runs it as a child process. Sourcing (the second way), on the other way, runs the script as if you entered all its commands into the current shell - if the script sets a variable, it will remain set, if the script exits, your session will exit. See help . for documentation.
Running a script the first way runs it as a child process. Sourcing (the second way), on the other hand, runs the script as if you entered all its commands into the current shell - if the script sets a variable, it will remain set, if the script exits, your session will exit. See help . for documentation.
Running a script the first way runs it as a child process. Sourcing (the second way), on the other way, runs the script as if you entered all its commands into the current shell - if the script sets a variable, it will remain set, if the script exits, your session will exit. See help . for documentation.
