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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to pass variables between scripts? Post 302883829 by Don Cragun on Thursday 16th of January 2014 08:50:51 AM
Old 01-16-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by jl487
Hello, I have two bash scripts like the following:

script 1:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
var=WORLD
bash path/to/second/script/script2.bash


script 2:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
echo "HELLO $var"

I expected the output to be "HELLO WORLD" but instead, I get "HELLO". I understand that when I envoke another bash script, I'm starting a new processm but how can I go about changing it so that I can pass the variable to script 2?
Change your scripts to:
script 1:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
var=WORLD
bash path/to/second/script/script2.bash "$var"

script 2:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
echo "HELLO $1"

 

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NAME

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DESCRIPTION

     libbash  is  a package that enables bash dynamic-like shared libraries. Actually its a tool for managing bash scripts whose functions you may
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