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08-23-2008

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(Talking about bash)

Yes, you can use those functions from another file if they have the correct syntax which is not the case.

For bash functions you could have a file say file_number_one.sh:

Code:

function func { echo "bla bla bla1"; }

and then from another script you could have:

Code:

. ./file_number_one.sh

func