Add to & improve wording of `source` & add entry

pull/100/head
terminalforlife 4 years ago
parent 764fb08b98
commit a5bfe297f8

@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
# This is a shell built-in available in Bash, but not in the Bourne Shell # source
# (`sh`). The contents of FILE (assuming shell script) will be sourced into the # Execute commands from a file in the current shell
# current session, allowing external use of its functions, variables, etc.
# This is a shell built-in, available within most if not all shells. However, -
# it may only be available as `.` in some older shells, such as Bourne shell.
# Its first argument is a file, with all proceeding arguments being parameters
# to the aforementioned file.
# Run shell code residing within FILE as though you'd entered it in yourself.
source FILE source FILE
# The above can be written in short-hand, for the same effect: # The above can be written in short-hand, for the same effect, shell allowing.
. FILE . FILE
# Source FILE with the given arguments to said file.
source FILE Argument_1 Argument_2 Argument_3 ...

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