Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 15:30:40 +0100 Message-ID: <9380-Wed16May2001153040+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: emacs 20.7.1 (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 6.92 under Emacs 20.7.1 From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ABAK Systemes Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: source not found in sh In-Reply-To: <3B02823A.63654981@abaksystemes.fr> References: <3B02823A.63654981@abaksystemes.fr> On Wednesday 16 May 01, ABAK Systemes writes: > Hello > > 'source file' works fine in bash (cygwin 1.1.8). But in a shell script I > get the following error: > > source not found > > When I replace source by . everything is OK. There is a FAQ entry "Why doesn't my script work" (I'll change it to "why doesn't my shell script work"), which points out that /bin/sh is ash, not bash. Apparently 'source' is a bash-ism, not an ash-ism, and I'll add this to the list of missing features. (Unless it someone corrects me and explains otherwise.) If you need bash features in your script, use #! /bin/bash rather than #! /bin/sh Hope this helps. Regards, David Cygwin FAQ maintainer ------------------------------------------------------------------- David Starks-Browning | starksb@ebi.ac.uk EMBL Outstation -- | The European Bioinformatics Institute | Wellcome Trust Genome Campus | tel: +44 (1223) 494 616 Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK | fax: +44 (1223) 494 468 ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple