Calling a bash shell script from within another script

dedman · 04-09-2010, 07:42 PM

I am trying to call a script say mkdir.sh into another script that will make use of the dir's which are created in the first script. I know that I could code it all together, but I am trying to avoid rewriting the mkdir script as it is long. any help would be great.

smoker · 04-09-2010, 07:54 PM

Is google broken tonight ?
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dedman · 04-09-2010, 07:57 PM

Didn't type it the way you did though, thanks.
Didn't help much I'll keep trying

pixellany · 04-09-2010, 08:44 PM

A shell script can call any legal command, even if it is another script. Just be sure all the required permissions are set and that the called items are in $PATH, or are called with full pathnames.

catkin · 04-10-2010, 06:25 AM

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Originally Posted by dedman

I am trying to call a script say mkdir.sh into another script that will make use of the dir's which are created in the first script. I know that I could code it all together, but I am trying to avoid rewriting the mkdir script as it is long. any help would be great.

I don't understand what you want to do. Do you want to call mkdir.sh from a script (let's call it a.sh) and have mkdir.sh make some directories and then have a.sh somehow get the names of the new directories? Will a.sh tell mkdir.sh which directories to make? How could anybody find out which directories mkdir.sh makes? Does it report what it is doing on stdout?

dedman · 04-12-2010, 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by catkin

I don't understand what you want to do. Do you want to call mkdir.sh from a script (let's call it a.sh) and have mkdir.sh make some directories and then have a.sh somehow get the names of the new directories? Will a.sh tell mkdir.sh which directories to make? How could anybody find out which directories mkdir.sh makes? Does it report what it is doing on stdout?

Basically the mkdir.sh will make dir's which have been predetermined in the script. Then a.sh would call mkdir to run, and then sort through files in yet another dir and place them into the newly created dir's according to guidelines setforth by a.sh

catkin · 04-13-2010, 05:22 AM

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Originally Posted by dedman

Basically the mkdir.sh will make dir's which have been predetermined in the script. Then a.sh would call mkdir to run, and then sort through files in yet another dir and place them into the newly created dir's according to guidelines setforth by a.sh

That's good information. You can put a command in a.sh to call mkdir.sh, exactly as you would call mkdir.sh from the command line ... OK?

cola · 04-24-2010, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by dedman

Basically the mkdir.sh will make dir's which have been predetermined in the script. Then a.sh would call mkdir to run, and then sort through files in yet another dir and place them into the newly created dir's according to guidelines setforth by a.sh

You can call any script as you call it in terminal.
Make sure the script is executable.