What is the difference between “source script.sh” and “./script.sh”?

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source script.sh runs the script within the current process, thus all variable assignments are preserved as variables even after the script finishes (and don’t have to be explicitly export‘d).

./script.sh just runs the script in a subprocess, and any variables which are assigned disappear after the script is done.

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