How to unpack source.n.gz
 

HI,
Can someone please help me. I have a file to be run with source command. But when run
> source .file

An error Command not found appeared. I typed whereis source and it gives me
/usr/share/man/man1/source.1.gz
/usr/share/man/mann/source.n.gz

How do I unpack the command source?

Source is a bash builtin, so you won't have any executable, that's ok. I'd rather make sure .file is there. Is your .file really hidden? TryNote: This is without the dot.

The 'source' command is used to read a settings file. If one changes for example some profile settings in .bashrc, then 'source .bashrc' will read the file and make the settings available to the current environment.

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Actually, source just inserts the (shell) file contents into the current env/file at the point where it is called.
Think of it as a dynamic include.
The sourced file can be any shell 'cmds', not just settings.
NB: source is a synonym for dot<space> eg

. file

is the same as

source file

HI General Failure,

I did run source file, but the an error no such file appeared. The file is really hidden. I tried using source with other files, and it works.

So there is a wrong command inside the file.

Looking at post #1 again, that looks like man pages for the source cmd, in which case don't even try. Just do

man source

and the man tool will handle it for you.