Sep 27, 2016 · When the script is done, any changes that it made to the environment are discarded. . script The above sources the script. It is as if the commands had been typed in directly. Any …

Your example provides the same result, but the purpose of eval and source is different. source is usually used for providing a library for other scripts, while eval is used only to evaluate commands. eval …

source is a shell keyword that is supposed to be used like this: source file where file contains valid shell commands. These shell commands will be executed in the current shell as if typed from the …

Mar 17, 2018 · I accidentally sourced the wrong environment from a script. Is there any way to 'unsource' it or in other words to revert it and restore the previous environment? The obvious answer …

Sep 28, 2024 · Although the contents (size) in bytes of both source and destination are the same, the amount of space it takes up is less on the local HDD compared to the amount it takes up on the …

To add global exports, add a new file to /etc/profile.d/ add global aliases to /etc/bash.bashrc or /etc/bashrc depending on your distro (see /etc/profile around line 18 # Source global bash config …

Oct 14, 2017 · When I try to use source from the cron job (I have tried both directly in crontab and in a script called by crontab) it doesn't seem to work. I made a simplified version of my project to …

How can I use ffmpeg to reduce the size of a video by lowering the quality (as minimally as possible, naturally, because I need it to run on a mobile device that doesn't have much available space)?...

Jul 30, 2020 · I've read that BASH_SOURCE should be populated with the name of the executing script (and it works!). But why does BASH_SOURCE hold the name of the executing script, when it is …

Is there a clean way to prevent these types of bugs from happening? Basically, when I source a child script, there are a couple of specific variables that I want to persist back to the parent script. My …