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If you have a Bash script that needs to be sourced (versus directly executed), you can enforce this by checking the execution context in the script. Here is an example of setting a flag that can be evaluated and then acted upon. (return 0 2>/dev/null) && sourced=1 || sourced=0 if [ $sourced -eq 0 ]; … Bash: test whether script is invoked directly or sourced