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Re: [Help-bash] Is there a way to make variables used in a sourced scrip
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Dan Douglas |
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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 00:23:55 -0500 |
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Dave Rutherford
<address@hidden> wrote:
> 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?
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>> > 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.
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> 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'.
Yeah there's not much reason to avoid the subshell if you want NO
side-effects in the calling script.