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On Friday 19 January 2007 13:33, Alex Charrett wrote: > Futher to what Jamie said, I think you can run a script in your current > shell instance rather than spawning a new one using source: > > $ source script > > or the same thing, but shorthand: > > $ . script Hi Thanks for that, it allows me to to do what I want. What I am trying to avoid is having a PATH which grows like topsy. (Windows like) It avoids one source of errors. The neat way is of course is to put all ones start up scripts in one subdirectory and put that on ones PATH. The each script Copies PATH to temp creates a new PATH as required starts the programme using its full name (I forget what this is called, but one starts at root /home/and/so/on/down/the /tree and on exit restores ones old PATH. Which is what I suppose is what I should get around to doing. However there are attractions to just dropping down into the correct subdirectory. One can have a quick look around and start what one wants! Thanks again Peter -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html