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I'm trying to write (what I thought would be) a simple bash script that will: run virtualenv to create a new environment at $1 activate the virtual environment do some more stuff (install django, add django-admin.py to the virtualenv's path, etc.) Step 1 works quite well, but I can't seem to activate the virtualenv. For those not familiar with virtualenv, it creates an activate file that activates the virtual environment. From the CLI, you run it using source source $env_name/bin/activate Where $env_name, obviously, is the name of the dir that the virtual env is installed in. In my script, after creating the virtual environment, I store the path to the activate script like this: activate="`pwd`/$ENV_NAME/bin/activate" But when I call source "$activate" , I get this: /home/clawlor/bin/scripts/djangoenv: 20: source: not found I know that $activate contains the correct path to the activate script, in fact I even test that a file is there before I call source . But source itself can't seem to find it. I've also tried running all of the steps manually in the CLI, where everything works fine. In my research I found this script , which is similar to what I want but is also doing a lot of other things that I don't need, like storing all of the virtual environments in a ~/.virtualenv directory (or whatever is in $WORKON_HOME). But it seems to me that he is creating the path to activate , and calling source "$activate" in basically the same way I am. Here is the script in its entirety: #!/bin/sh PYTHON_PATH=~/bin/python-2.6.1/bin/python if [ $#

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