Bug#359945: /usr/bin/eclipse: source is not a POSIX shell command

Stephen Gran sgran at debian.org
Fri Apr 14 09:51:36 UTC 2006


This one time, at band camp, Stephan Michels said:
> 2006/3/29, Michal Politowski <mpol at charybda.icm.edu.pl>:
> > /usr/bin/eclipse is a /bin/sh script but it uses the source command, which
> > is not specified by POSIX, to read ~/.eclipse/eclipserc.
> 
> Hmm, so, what sould we use instead of "source"?
> 
> Maybe we can use ". ~/.eclipse/eclipserc" instead ...

That's the correct way.  Take care,
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