Hi all,

I'm getting problems accessing functions in ksh from other ksh files --- is there a way to do this? And does anyone have any suggestions to pass parameters from one script to another that has functions in it?

Basically I'm trying to avoid having tons of the same functions in every script I create.

A way I was trying to get around this was that inside script1 I would call script2 and pass a paramter to it -- Then inside script2 pick up the argument and test it using a case ---- but this gets a bit messy too...

Any suggestions/advice?
Thanks again,
elpico.

Hi:

The Korn shell automatically loads a function the first time it's called provided the function resides in a directory in the shell variable FPATH (the format of FPATH is the same as PATH), and the command of the
same name can not be found, or the function is typeset with the -u option:

typeset -fu

an alias for "typeset -fu" is autoload.

Regards,

Nails

sorry, the arrow keys were wiped out:

typeset -fu yourfunctionname

You can also explicitly source the script that contains the function definitions, the same way you'd pick up variable definitions e.g:

. /somepath/myfunctions.ksh