Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I have a menu driven script that does various tasks, I want to be able to call functions directly from within other unix scripts from my menu script. Is this possible?

Its possible. Just make sure that the function is defined before its called.

How do you do it ranj? What do you mean about path names? Could you give me an example?

Thanks

Can you tell exactly what you are trying to achieve?

Bascially i have a menu:

doSQLSubMenu()
{
while true
do
showSQLSubMenu

read answer

MSG=

case $answer in
1) ;;
2) ;;
3) ;;

r|R) break;;

*) badChoice;;
esac
done
}

I want to make calls functions within different .sh scripts for option 1,2 and 3.

So say i had a function view() in a.sh

I would ideally want if you pressed 1 to call a.view()

Then another script perhaps b.sh

So if you pressed 2 it would call b.<function_name>

S.

There is a FPATH variable that should be set to point to the directory where the functions are defined. Check this link out - fpath

I'm not 100% sure i get this, is this saying create a libary of functions in another directory then ref this directory using the FPATH and just make calls to the required functions?

So if i have a file functions.sh that contains:

editSQLReleaseFile()
{
clear
echo "Editing..."
sleep 112
}

Then another file (say test.sh) with FPATH set to the location of the functions.sh file i can then make a call to editSQLReleaseFile from within test.sh?

i.e. in test.sh

echo "calling editSQLReleaseFile"
editSQLReleaseFile

?