Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add import builtin

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/2/24 6:22 PM, Matheus Afonso Martins Moreira wrote:

> This patch set introduces a new "import" builtin which behaves just like
> the source builtin but only looks up executables in the BASH_IMPORT_PATH
> variable.

How is this any different than

PATH=$BASH_IMPORT_PATH:$PATH source
or
PATH=$BASH_IMPORT_PATH source

You could force the latter if you are sure that the sourced files will
not attempt to run external commands.

You could even make this an alias if you want. I'd hesitate to make it a
function, unless you're sure that no file you source uses `declare' to
create variables, since those will be local to the function by default.

Chet

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