Include Files in Bash

 Include Files in Bash

Similar to other programming languages which allow to include other files to a file, Bash scripting also allows to include (source) another shell script file to script file.

For example, to include config.sh script to current script file use following syntax, where config.sh is available in the same directory of the current script.

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#!/bin/bash   source other-file.sh

Include Shell Script in Other Shell Script

For this example, First, I have created data.sh file with the following content.

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#!/bin/bash   id=100 name="Test"

Now create another file show.sh, which includes data.sh file.

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#!/bin/bash   source data.sh   echo "Welcome $name" echo "Your id is $id"

Execute script show.sh in a terminal and view the results:

./show.sh

Welcome Test
Your id is 100