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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seconded, after being burned repeatedly I always do this. But why are you calling activate from the directory above?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I don't think he does. If you're talking about the third line, there's a space between the dots.

The dot command is equivalent to source (running the script in the context of the current shell).