Re: Shell script function problems
phillinux wrote:
I'm trying to write a bash shell script to create user accounts that
calls 2 functions. I can't call these functions from the script or the
command line. The set command seems to show the loaded script in the
shell (loaded with . FunctionName at command line) with other
environmental variables. ALSO: The type command does not recognize the
function.
The script and functions work on my laptop running Fedora (with one
small glitch). Is there something I can do to my Debian server to get
functions recognized??
From some other comments in the thread, it sounds like you are trying
to do something like the following:
$ cat foo
g()
{
printf 'in g\n'
}
$ cat bar
#!/bin/sh
g
$ . foo
$ ./bar # won't work since bar doesn't source foo
./bar: line 3: g: command not found
$ cat baz
#!/bin/sh
. foo
g
$ ./baz
in g
If you source the file with the function definitions, it makes
the functions available in the current shell, but not in subshells
that you may invoke.
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