Activating a VirtualEnv using a shell script doesn't seem to work

Question

I tried activating a VirtualEnv through a shell script like the one below but it doesn\'t seem to work,

#!/bin/sh
source ~/.virtualenvs/pinax-env/bin/activa         


        

Answer 1

source is an builtin shell command in bash, and is not available in sh. If i remember correctly then virtual env does a lot of path and environment variables manipulation. Even running it as bash virtualenv_blah.sh wont work since this will simply create the environment inside the sub-shell.

Try . virtualenv_activate.sh or source virtualenv_activate.sh this basically gets the script to run in your current environment and all the environment variables modified by virtualenv's activate will be available.

HTH.

Edit: Here is a link that might help - http://ss64.com/bash/period.html