Ronald J. Hall wrote:
On Friday 02 July 2004 09:02 pm, David E. Fox wrote: ->On Thu, 1 Jul
2004 22:22:29 -0400 ->"Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
-> ->> from that same console/shell window just type in "bash". ->
->that starts another subshell. probably easiest to just do "source
->.bashrc".
Yes, it does start another subshell, but it has the other, desired
affect as well - it reflects the update to .bashrc. When you kill the
current shell the subshell is killed as well. Is there a disadvantage
or problem with the subshell? Just curious - if its harmful I'll go
with your answer "source .bashrc". Thanks!
Well, it does add one extra step to exit. You have to "exit" the
subshell, before you can "logout" or "exit" the first one... You also
end up with an extra copy of the shell in memory, but that is usualy not
a problem.
Mikkel
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
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