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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting functions and variables in bash Post 302699453 by kristinu on Tuesday 11th of September 2012 05:53:04 PM
Old 09-11-2012
Ok, so I just call colors in my_property, which seems to work

Code:
source colors.bash  
my_property() {
  colors
  car
  echo $color_car
 }

---------- Post updated at 04:53 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:44 PM ----------

My problem is this:

Suppose I have lots of properties which all call colors

Code:
pen
car
box
ball
plate

and then I start calling pen and car several times in my_property, this would mean that all colors would be redefined everytime which is a waste

Here is an example

Code:
cat colors.bash

#!/bin/bash  

colors() {   
  red="red"  
  blue="blue"   
  green="green" 
} 

car() {
  echo $red
} 

pen() {
   echo $blue
}

ball() {
    echo $blue
 }
 
plate() {
   echo $blue
  }

Code:
cat property.bash

#!/bin/bash  

my_property() {
  colors

  car
  car
  car
  plate
  echo $red
 
}

Last edited by kristinu; 09-11-2012 at 07:04 PM..
 

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