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# 1  
Old 04-01-2011
Call external function
Is it possible to call a function from another script?

Thanks
# 2  
Old 04-01-2011
Sort of.
Code:
# file1
foo()
{
    echo "foo was called"
}

Code:
#file2  
# source file1
. file1
# call the any function in file1
foo

Last edited by jim mcnamara; 04-01-2011 at 02:16 PM..
# 3  
Old 04-01-2011
Great thanks very much
# 4  
Old 04-08-2011
Lets say I have two scripts A and B.

Script A is using a function in B

So I use . scriptB to get access to all functions.

This works fine if I run scriptA in directory that scriptB is in, but it does not seem to work if I run it in another directory?
# 5  
Old 04-08-2011
create an absolute path. assume scriptB live in /home/chrisj
Code:
.  /home/chrisj/scriptB

# 6  
Old 04-08-2011
Source scriptB using its full pathname.
Code:
. /path/to/scriptB

# 7  
Old 04-08-2011
Thanks stating full path works fine
 
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