Re: [Chicken-users] a file system using Chicken

[Peter Bex]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 03:54:50PM +0300, Dan Muresan wrote:
> > How about $(cat filename) or `cat filename`?
> 
> No. I'm surprised you've never run across the "source" or "." commands, 
> they're fairly common. They execute execute scripts in the current shell 
> (as opposed to spawning a new shell process). They're essential when you 
> want a script to modify the environment of the current shell (e.g. set 
> some shell variables, like the /etc/profile.d/* series). In my case 
> though I was just micro-optimizing.

Never mind, that was just a brainfart.  Looks like POSIX doesn't have a way
to do this?  Weird!

Peter
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