Closed ekalinin closed 8 years ago
Thanks for your contribution, but I'm going to leave it as is. We used to just have . build.sh
, as you do, but we ended up w/ people commonly misreading it, using ./build.sh
, and showing up in IRC asking why it wasn't working. We changed it to source build.sh
while still including a reference to . build.sh
for the folks who aren't using bash and we haven't had any confusion since.
source
is synonymous for.
in bash and zsh only. Some lighter shells don't havesource
command. Moreover, only.
is specified by POSIX. So ksh, dash, ash, etc. may not havesource
.