I've been using emulate sh -c ". $HOME/myscript.sh" and it's working so far.
However, if I'm at ~ and try to do emulate sh -c ". myscript.sh", I get .: no such file or directory: myscript.sh.. Why?
asked Jan 3, 2014 at 0:09
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The . builtin looks for the script passed argument in the command search path ($PATH) if it doesn't contain a /. This is true both in POSIX shells and in native zsh, so unsurprisingly it's true in zsh's sh emulation mode as well.
The source builtin in bash and zsh is identical to . except that no PATH lookup happens, a script name not containing a / is looked for in the current directory.
emulate sh -c 'source myscript.sh'
or
emulate sh -c '. ./myscript.sh'
answered Jan 3, 2014 at 0:42
Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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