[NTLUG:Discuss] OT - include bash script

[Ben Weatherall]

Have you tried "sourcing" the child script? Try:
   message="hello world"
   . $HOME/child.inc

It has been a while, so I don't remember if a #!/... line at the top of the child will cause problems or not.
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-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf Of Greg Edwards
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 3:22 PM
To: NTLUG Discussion List
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] OT - include bash script

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.

-- 
Greg E

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