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# source
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# Execute commands from a file in the current shell
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# This is a shell built-in, available within most if not all shells. However, -
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# it may only be available as `.` in some older shells, such as Bourne shell.
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# Its first argument is a file, with all proceeding arguments being parameters
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# to the aforementioned file.
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# Run shell code residing within FILE as though you'd entered it in yourself.
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source FILE
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# The above can be written in short-hand, for the same effect, shell allowing.
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. FILE
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# Source FILE with the given arguments to said file.
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source FILE Argument_1 Argument_2 Argument_3 ...
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