calling functions in other files

[Daniel]

(I guess this is the right place to put this)

How do you call functions from a shell script that are in files other than the shell script itself? I saw an example of this in the vasm scripts in /sbin. There is a vasm script and a vasm-functions script. At different points, vasm or a script that vasm executes call functions from the vasm-functions script such as check_root. I tried to call a function in a "functions" script (for a script that I am writing) in the (I think) the same way that the vasm script did it but I couldn't get it to work. Help?

[brokndodge]

post your scripts so we can take a look. 

according to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=664657 bash has an equivalent to c's include statement.  it's simply a . so to include functions from another file you would just do:

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#! /bin/bash

# here is the include statement
. somefunctionfile.sh   #don't forget the space between the . and the filename

functioncall



[Daniel]

Thanks! Using the include statement thing worked!

[M0E-lnx]

The actual commamd is 'source' in bash. The . Is a shortcut for it