source(3Tcl)

NAME
     source - Evaluate a file as a Tcl script

SYNOPSIS
     source fileName


DESCRIPTION
     Read file fileName and pass the contents to the Tcl interpreter as a
     script to evaluate in the normal fashion.  The return value from source
     is the return value of the last command executed from the file.  If an
     error occurs in evaluating the contents of the file then the source
     command will return that error.  If a return command is invoked from
     within the file then the remainder of the file will be skipped and the
     source command will return normally with the result from the return
     command.  If fileName starts with a tilde, then it is tilde-substituted
     as described in the Tcl_TildeSubst manual entry.


KEYWORDS
     file, script