bash scripting

Neorio · 10-22-2004, 01:33 AM

I have several scripts which all have common variables.
How to I modify the scripts to read a single config file containing these common variables?

At the moment all my scripts have a section up the top which defines the same variables.

ToniT · 10-22-2004, 02:52 AM

Let's say you have eg. file config.rc containing:

Code:

foo=bar
baz=bafl

Now having line

Code:

source /path/to/config.rc

in other script should include the variables there.

Neorio · 10-22-2004, 04:52 AM

Thanks.

I also found another way to do it, simply by loading the config file with variables and having them loaded in using the period command within the script.

. /configpath/configfile

ToniT · 10-22-2004, 06:39 AM

That is fundamentally the same solution; "." is an alias for "source".