Bash – ”Sourcing” script from another script

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2015-01-04 at 23:09 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> I'm pretty sure it will work, but is this a good practice?

It'll work, but it introduces dependencies that are a bit hard to
follow.

If possible, I would refactor the scripts into three - one script
calc.sh that calculates the variable values, then two separate scripts
script1.sh and script2.sh that each source calc.sh.

It depends on how complicated/expensive those variables are to
calculate, and whether calculating them has side-effects.

> Is it better to keep everything in one file even if that file will be quite
> big?

If two scripts have a section that does the same thing in each script,
and that thing is non-trivila, it's generally a good idea to separate it
out and get it right once. Then if changes are ever needed, you only
have to change one place and it will be corrected in all the places that
use it.

Regards, K.

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