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I have a shell script file which contains certain intialisation.Initialisation section is around 20 lines.This initialisation section is required by 20 shell script files.

Intialisation shell script contains only initialisation of variables and it is not a good practise to deplicate the same script in all 20 shell script

Instead of that i want to call single initialisation script file in all 20 shell script which used it.

Kindly tell me how to go about it.

For example , below is section of initialisation section which have variable named CLASSPATH and this entire scripting is available in a single shell scrip file.

Code:

CLASSPATH=/opt/programs/appl/:
CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:.
CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:<APPL_DIRECTORY>/lib/log4j-1.2.14.jar

Now i need to call this shell script inside another shell script and also want to access the variable CLASSPATH.

How to do it ...

Reply is very much appreciated

Your_script

Code:

. /path/script_containing_variables
......

Leave a space between dot and script name

Thanks very much ...it is working ..i really appreciate for ur valuable reply