SOURCE(nged)

Reads an external file and executes its contents.

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💅 SOURCE (from the nged manual, bestie)

okay so real talk — this is the source page from the BRL-CAD MGED Commands manual, and it's genuinely one of the simplest glow-ups in the whole toolset. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

source — reads an external file and executes its contents. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

source {example.txt}

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The source command reads an external file and executes it. literally just run this file for me. 💖

Here's the part where you have to pay attention, bestie: the command looks in the current working directory for the file. so if your file is living somewhere else (rude of it), you've got two options:

  • use the relative or full path to the file, or
  • use the pwd and cd commands to navigate to the file's directory first.

that's the vibe check. if it's not in your cwd and you didn't give a path, it's not gonna find it. 🫶

⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

🍓 Example 1. Read in an external file.

mged>source example.txt

Reads and executes the file example.txt located in the current working directory. iconic. effortless. no path needed. ✨

🧚 Example 2. Read in an external file using the full path to the file.

mged>source C:/cad_work/example.txt

Reads and executes the file example.txt located at C:\cad_work\. see? full path, file found, crisis averted. 💅

👑 AUTHOR 👑

BRL-CAD Team — the main characters, fr fr.

💀 BUG REPORTS 💀

Reports of bugs or problems should be submitted via electronic mail to devs@brlcad.org. please do actually report them, don't just suffer in silence 🙈

and that's the whole page!! shoutout to BRL-CAD for this one, and to you for reading the nged source page all the way through — you ate that. 💜🦋🌸

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