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Old 05-24-2007
anbu23 anbu23 is offline Forum Advisor  
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Code:
. test_common.lib
Executes test_common.lib in the same shell so that you can access variables and functions defined in it.

What you are doing is correct. Check whether test_common.lib in test.sh directory contains definition of that function?