[NTLUG:Discuss] OT - include bash script
Chris Cox
cjcox at acm.org
Tue Jan 5 16:20:19 CST 2010
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 15:22 -0600, Greg Edwards wrote:
> Is it possible to have a bash script include code from another file and
> maintain vars set by the parent script?
>
> example:
>
> parent script:
>
> message="hello world"
> $include child.inc
>
> child.inc:
>
> echo The message of the day is $message
>
> The $include directive pulls the code fine, but vars set by the parent
> are lost. In the above example $message is empty.
>
source it in
message="hello world"
. child.inc
# that is dot followed by space followed by script to source in
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