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Old 09-30-2009
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Originally Posted by peterro
You could source your .bashrc or keep the definitions in a separate file and source that whenever you have a script that needs to access the definitions.
Even though this could work (reference), I'd rather try to keep things separate (- a basic setup I'm using for larger projects: script.main for the main part, script.code for functions and script.data for variables).

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Further details: ABS on Aliases

Last edited by dr.house; 09-30-2009 at 03:57 AM.. Reason: Amendment
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