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Re: [Help-bash] Is there a way to make variables used in a sourced scrip
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Dave Rutherford |
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Re: [Help-bash] Is there a way to make variables used in a sourced script local to the script being sourced, so that the variables will not be available in the script where the "source" command is called? |
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Mon, 8 Jun 2015 00:26:34 -0400 |
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 11:43 PM, Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Dan Douglas <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> Is there a way to make variables used in a sourced script local to the
script
> >> being sourced, so that the variables will not be available in the
script
> >> where the "source" command is called?
> >
> > Don't put code outside of functions in sourced scripts. Put all library
code
> > into functions, source the file, then call the functions.
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> But then the function is available in the script where the source
> command is called. I don't want this function either.
You don't want the variables in your namespace and you don't
want the functions either? Sounds like you'd be better off calling
the other script as an independent entity, not using `source'.