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bug#8420: I: bug#8420: dirname


From: Eric Blake
Subject: bug#8420: I: bug#8420: dirname
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:39:40 -0600
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On 04/04/2011 11:37 AM, Michele Marigliano wrote:
> At end, I resolved it running the script in this way:
> ./script.sh
> and NOT
> . script.sh (my first run with error).

There is a large difference between sourcing a file in the current shell
(. script.sh, where $0 remains unchanged) and executing a script
(./script, where $0 changes to the script name); and as you discovered,
there are a large number of scripts that are not usable when sourced
instead of run as a script.

At any rate, glad to hear that you got things sorted out.

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Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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