[SLUG] Shell script calling shell script

From: Chuck Hast (wchast@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Nov 18 2004 - 17:15:16 EST


I have a set of applications that I want to configure and start up. I am
seeing that the general way it is done is to write the monolithic shell
script that sets up ports, starts apps, etc. What I really want to do is
have a master script that calls modular scripts that will then set up
a port or start a app, then if I need to go in and change something I
do not need to poke around the master script only go in and work on
the port script that I want to change.

My question is if my main script calls another one, when that one
finishes, will it hand the execution back to the script that called it?
That way say I have a machine that has 8 ports on it, each port has
about 10 lines of configuration, if I want to remove a port I just go in
and comment out the line that calls that port, I do not have to go in
and comment out 8-10 lines of commands and parameters. If I want
to add a port I just take a template and change the parameters are
are port dependient and make a entry in the main script that calls
it.

-- 
Chuck Hast 
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."
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