source command not found in sh shell
/bin/sh
is usually some other shell trying to mimic The Shell. Many distributions use /bin/bash
for sh
, it supports source
. On Ubuntu, though, /bin/dash
is used which does not support source
. Most shells use .
instead of source
. If you cannot edit the script, try to change the shell which runs it.
In Bourne shell(sh), use the . command to source a file
. filename
In certain OS's/environments (Mac OS, Travis-CI, Ubuntu, at least) this must be:
. ./filename
(Credit to Adrien Joly's comment below)