How to include file in a bash shell script

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Is there a way to include another shell script in a shell script to be able to access its functions   Like how in PHP you can use the include directive with other PHP files in order to run the functions that are contained within simply by calling the function name

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Above answers are correct  but if run script in other folder  there will be some problem   For example  the a sh and b sh are in same folder   a include b with      b sh to include   When run script out of the folder  for example with xx xx xx a sh  file b sh will not found    b sh  No such file or directory    I use       dirname   0   b sh

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Syntax is source  lt file-name gt  ex  source config sh script - config sh USERNAME  quot satish quot  EMAIL  quot satish linuxconcept com quot   calling script -    bin bash source config sh echo Welcome   USERNAME   echo Your email is   EMAIL    You can learn to include a bash script in another bash script here

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Simply put inside your script   source FILE  Or   FILE   POSIX compliant     LANG C help source source  source filename  arguments  Execute commands from a file in the current shell   Read and execute commands from FILENAME in the current shell   The entries in  PATH are used to find the directory containing FILENAME  If any ARGUMENTS are supplied  they become the positional parameters when FILENAME is executed   Exit Status  Returns the status of the last command executed in FILENAME  fails if FILENAME cannot be read

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In my situation  in order to include color sh from the same directory in init sh  I had to do something as follows        color sh   Not sure why the    and not color sh directly  The content of color sh is as follows   RED  tput setaf 1  GREEN  tput setaf 2  BLUE  tput setaf 4  BOLD  tput bold  RESET  tput sgr0    Making use of File color sh does not error but  the color do not display  I have tested this in Ubuntu 18 04 and the Bash version is   GNU bash  version 4 4 19 1 -release  x86 64-pc-linux-gnu

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Yes  use source or the short form which is just       other script sh

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