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Re: why doesn't 'source *' work?



Replying to message of 11 Apr 1999 01:22:59 +0100
	from Bruce Stephens <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
	regarding ``Re: why doesn't 'source *' work?''
	
> If you do "source a b c d e", then the file "a" gets sourced, with the
> positional parameters set: $1 gets set to "b", $2 to "c", $3 to "d"
> and $4 to "e".
>
> The same kind of behaviour that you get with shell functions and
> things.

Ah.... as one of my teacher's used to say:

``Light dawns on marble head.''

Thanks for the explanation, I guess that does make sense.

TjL




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