Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] builtins/source: parse the -i option

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/17/24 11:40 AM, Robert Elz wrote:

> Now of course, everyone is going to say "too difficult to do that all
> the time", and they'd be right.  So the one extra feature would be that
> if used without the "file" arg (which is normally mandatory), as in
>         . -p path-like-value
> it would set the default search path for later uses of the '.' command
> (and if anyone feels that being able to read back what has been set, an
> additional option could make that info appear on stdout, and source
> nothing).

There is nothing different between that and setting another variable,
one that's user-visible like BASH_SOURCE_PATH, except that it's more
obscure and fragile.

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