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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to use functions as a system commands? Post 302621887 by rbatte1 on Wednesday 11th of April 2012 08:22:36 AM
Old 04-11-2012
It is a little unclear what you want. I am guessing that you have written some functions that you might want to call from the shell command prompt any time, rather than having to write a script, define them in there and call them how you need each time.

I think that if you have these functions in a file (let's call it myfunctions) then you are wanting to make them available to the current shell. Try:-
Code:
. myfunctions

The leading "dot space" is important. This will execute the myfunctions file and load any functions to the current shell, so if you had:-
Code:
#myfunctions file
first()
{
 echo "Good morning!"
}

second()
{
 echo "Good afternoon!"
}

Then you could do the following:-
Code:
$ .  myfunctions
$ first
Good morning!
$ second
Good afternoon!
$

Is that the sort of thing you are after? If not, then do reply and explain where I have completely missed the point.



I hope that this helps
Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK
 

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