Topic: calling functions in other files (Read 8906 times)

Daniel · « **on:** August 06, 2009, 05:07:07 pm »

(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 · « **Reply #1 on:** August 06, 2009, 06:24:47 pm »

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 · « **Reply #2 on:** August 06, 2009, 06:41:33 pm »

Thanks! Using the include statement thing worked!

M0E-lnx · « **Reply #3 on:** August 07, 2009, 04:44:53 am »

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

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