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Add the ability of bash script to recognize workon command.
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Just source the virtualenvwrapper.sh script in your script to import the virtualenvwrapper's functions. You should then be able to use the workon function in your script.

And maybe better, you could create a shell script (you could name it venv-run.sh for example) to run any Python script into a given virtualenv, and place it in /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, or any directory which is in your PATH.

Such a script could look like this:

# if virtualenvwrapper.sh is in your PATH (i.e. installed with pip)
source `which virtualenvwrapper.sh`
#source /path/to/virtualenvwrapper.sh # if it's not in your PATH
workon $1
python $2
deactivate

And could be used simply like venv-run.sh my_virtualenv /path/to/script.py

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