On Dec 23, 2005, at 11:00 AM, Victor Odhner wrote:
> Be careful not to put an "exit" in the "dotted" script, since that
> will end your session.
I realized that the first time I ran it. My terminal quit. :) I
haven't looked into this, but I imagine shell functions support some
kind of 'return' value instead of 'exit'?
On Dec 23, 2005, at 11:04 AM, Eric Shubes wrote:
> Alternatively, you could have done:
> $ . ./cvsswitch two
>
> Notice the '. ' before the command, which executes the command in
> the current shell without starting a new one.
Thanks to all who have responded. The programming isn't hard, but
the shell environment is a little different from things I'm used to
developing (web apps w/ PHP mostly). It underscores the fact that
understanding the context a program will run in is critical.
alex
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