Question

Is there any way to mark a script to be ‘run as source’ so you don’t have to add the source or ‘.’ command to it every time? i.e., if I write a script called ‘sup’, I’d like to call it as

sup Argument 

rather than

source sup Argument 

or

. sup Argument 

Basically, I’m trying to use cd within a script.

Answer 1

Bash forks and starts a subshell way before it or your kernel even considers what it’s supposed to do in there. It’s not something you can ‘undo’. So no, it’s impossible.

Thankfully.

Look into bash functions instead:

sup() {     ... } 

Put that in your ~/.bashrc.