From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2010-01-27T18:23:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Why does `source .bashrc` complain "command not found"?

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Adam Akhtar <adamtemporary@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it just me or is this something that just cant be done?
>
> Ive found out that whenever system calls are made they open a child
> shell process. And as soon as that call is finished the child shell is
> closed and any changes that were made to the environment are lost with
> it.
>
> But i should still be able to execute source .bashrc (even though the
> changes will be lost as soon as that call finishes). Instead I get
> command not found. How come?
>
> (Ubuntu 9.04 and Ruby 1.8x)

irb(main):004:0> `echo $0`
=> "sh\n"

and sh doesn't have a source command. I remember there was a question
recently about changing the shell the backticks use, but I can't
remember the answers, maybe you can search for it in the archives?

Jesus.