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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How to pass values to a script called from within another script in shell? Post 303034048 by RudiC on Wednesday 17th of April 2019 05:38:55 AM
Old 04-17-2019
Usually it's best to show what you've tried and where you failed, so people know where to start guiding / helping you. On top, describe your request more detailedly. E.g. what do you mean by "populate a pre-defined value from another file"? Pls explain in depth!


Just executing a script from within another script will do so in a subshell, which can inherit variables exported by the caller, but there's no such channel back. There are several ways to get some info back to the caller, though (for the bash shell, not necessarily available in others):
- use "command substitution" to intercept the second script's stdout and e.g. assign it to a (one!) variable.
- source the script, so no subshell will be created / used.
- read from a "here string" which in turn uses "command substitution".
- go through a file / FIFO.
- a coprocess might work for certain situations.
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ATF-SH(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 ATF-SH(1)

NAME
atf-sh [-s shell] -- interpreter for shell-based test programs SYNOPSIS
atf-sh script DESCRIPTION
atf-sh is an interpreter that runs the test program given in script after loading the atf-sh(3) library. atf-sh is not a real interpreter though: it is just a wrapper around the system-wide shell defined by ATF_SHELL. atf-sh executes the inter- preter, loads the atf-sh(3) library and then runs the script. You must consider atf-sh to be a POSIX shell by default and thus should not use any non-standard extensions. The following options are available: -s shell Specifies the shell to use instead of the value provided by ATF_SHELL. ENVIRONMENT
ATF_LIBEXECDIR Overrides the builtin directory where atf-sh is located. Should not be overridden other than for testing purposes. ATF_PKGDATADIR Overrides the builtin directory where libatf-sh.subr is located. Should not be overridden other than for testing purposes. ATF_SHELL Path to the system shell to be used in the generated scripts. Scripts must not rely on this variable being set to select a specific interpreter. EXAMPLES
Scripts using atf-sh(3) should start with: #! /usr/bin/env atf-sh Alternatively, if you want to explicitly choose a shell interpreter, you cannot rely on env(1) to find atf-sh. Instead, you have to hardcode the path to atf-sh in the script and then use the -s option afterwards as a single parameter: #! /path/to/bin/atf-sh -s/bin/bash ENVIRONMENT
ATF_SHELL Path to the system shell to be used in the generated scripts. SEE ALSO
atf-sh(3) BSD
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