#8 Encourage dot (`.`) over `source`

[mcandre]

I believe source is a bashism, that POSIX shell only recognizes dot (.) instead. In the future, could checkbashisms report lines that contain source?

[mcandre]

Note: Except for csh/tcsh, which are non-POSIX compliant. csh and tcsh only recognize source, not dot (.).

[mcandre]

Some modern descendants like ash/dash do not recognize source, only dot (.), making this bashism check more important.

[Mike Frysinger]

this is already handled. please post an example script where it doesn't work for you.

$ printf '#!/bin/sh\nsource foo\n' > test.sh
$ checkbashisms test.sh
possible bashism in test.sh line 2 (should be '.', not 'source'):
source foo