These are my files:
$ ls -al my_fake_service.*
-rwxr--r-- 1 user1 user1 396 Mar 20 16:33 my_fake_service.sh
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 25 Mar 20 16:17 my_fake_service.txt

~/test/linuxlab $ cat my_fake_service.txt
VAR1="true"
VAR2="false"

~/test/linuxlab $ cat my_fake_service.sh
#!/sbin/bash

# Is this how to include a file into Bash script?
./home/user1/test/linuxlab/my_fake_service.txt

if [[ ${VAR1} == "true" ]]
then
echo "VAR1 set to true" >> ~/test/linuxlab/my_fake_service.log
else
echo "VAR1 set to false" >> ~/test/linuxlab/my_fake_service.log
fi

if [[ ${VAR2} == "true" ]]
then
echo "VAR2 set to true" >> ~/test/linuxlab/my_fake_service.log
else
echo "VAR2 set to false" >> ~/test/linuxlab/my_fake_service.log
fi

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When I ran the script, I got this error. What is causing it?
~/test/linuxlab $ bash my_fake_service.sh
my_fake_service.sh: line 2: ./home/foffb/test/linuxlab/my_fake_service: No such file or directory


user1> ~/test/linuxlab $ ls -al my_fake_service.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 36 Mar 20 17:13 my_fake_service.log
-rwxr--r-- 1 user1 user1 396 Mar 20 16:33 my_fake_service.sh
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 25 Mar 20 16:17 my_fake_service.txt

And here is the incorrect results:
user1> ~/test/linuxlab $ cat my_fake_service.log
VAR1 set to false
VAR2 set to false

Answer to self:

should be
# Is this how to include a file into Bash script?
source /home/user1/test/linuxlab/my_fake_service.txt

After 46 posts, if you cannot remember to use [code][/code] tags around your code / data, then I shall leave it to others to try and read your question.

You weren't denied permission to access it, you were denied permission to execute it, which is what you tried to do.

grail:

Oh well.... thanks for reading....

hydrurga:
See my answer to self .......

If you were talking about grail's comment, it was a very valid one. It is far easier to understand code inserted in the relevant CODE tags. It is also accepted forum etiquette.

I have some advice for you. The answers to the questions you've asked this evening, including this one, could be solved with a minimum of Googling plus, more importantly, the reading of one of many guides on how to script in Bash. You would find it far easier to proceed if you find one of these and just spend some time learning the fundamentals. Just take some time to do that and you'll find your scripting experience to be much easier.

hydrurga:

Thank you for trying ...
It was sample code that is suppose to work.
That is why I was asking.... since I could not find a solution online yet at the time..... !

Feel better now?... :-)

So the correct thing I believe to do here is to source the text file. A test which you can perform, as I always also do, is to follow the regimen that "everything you can do within the bash shell prompt, you can do within a script".

So:Explanation: I "sourced" 1.txt which contained a simple variable assignment. I validated in advance that the variable was not present in my bash shell environment. After sourcing that text file, the variable was now present in my shell environment.

Therefore I suggest you source your text file.

Be aware that other things besides variable assignments may not work. You'll have to test them out. But since this is exactly what you are doing, variable assignments, I believe it may work for you. Give it a try.

You probably missed the extra '.' ie an alternative way to 'source' a file is
ie dot<space>file

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chrism:

Thank you.
Initially, I tried that but without the space.... which is incorrect.....