Including file with internal functions within a shell script

[Rui Vilao]

Greetings,

I am writing a set of administration scripts.
I have already written a “library” of internal functions.

In order to reuse easily the written code in other shell scripts I would like to include it from another file without having to write it in the body of each shell script…

Can this be done?

Any help/suggestion is highly appreciated.

TIA.

Kind Regards,

Rui

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

If I understand your question, you would just execute the function from within your script:

do this
do something else

#invoke funtion

. function

finish up


Pete

[curt larson_1]

you use the FPATH variable to define where the shell looks for function definitions

[renarios]

Hi Rui,

Try FPATH

FPATH allows a list of function library directory names to be accessed. The shell will search through the directory list until it finds a file that matches the name of the funcion being used.
You can use autoload to declare a function from an external script.
Autoload is an alias for "typeset -fu"

Hope this helps,

Renarios