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It's worth mentioning that sourcing arbitrary scripts is not a good idea—you should fully understand what they may do to your environment first—but I agree that setting up a function "library" is a very handy use for sourceing. Nicely explained.

Wildcard
– Wildcard

2016-04-22 21:40:42 +00:00
Commented Apr 22, 2016 at 21:40
Is there a way to export variables from the script session to the outside terminal session?

Royi
– Royi

2020-12-27 01:58:56 +00:00
Commented Dec 27, 2020 at 1:58
@Royi that's exactly what source'ing does, as explained in this answer.

mad.meesh
– mad.meesh

2021-02-01 02:03:11 +00:00
Commented Feb 1, 2021 at 2:03

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