I have two function in a shell script in bash and from one of these function i need to call another script...any idea how to do that??

Cheers-
Atif

Does sourcing the file work?

. /some/other/script

Thanks David for ur reply..sorry that the sourcing not working...any other ideas.. have two recursive functions in a shell script in bash and from one of these function i need to call another script...any idea how to do that??
Cheers-

I guess I do not understand the issue. To call another script, just run it from within your function. Why does that not work?

Hi Nails,
Thanks a lot for your kind reply.

Hi Guys,
Here is the details what i am trying to do.What I am trying to do is i have made a script in bash called search.sh which recursively goes through the directories and finds any pattern of files and for this i have made two functions one for the matching files and one for searching the directories recursively.
I have another script called permissions.sh which checks the file's or directorie's permissions and changes it if the input permission is not matched.

Now i need to call permissions.sh from search.sh.Please give me suggestion how to do sourcing...whats the command..

Thanks a lot again....
Regards
Atif

I guess you are passing the file or directory as argument to the permissions.sh which changes the permission if it is not set.
As others told, try to use the full path of the file inside the script and you should be able to execute.

Else you can use the following alternative.

Use find command to list the directories as well as files as below. It gives you the full list recursively under the directory.

find <DIRNAME> -type f,d -print

Use the output of the above in a loop and check for the permission and set it.

find also has the option for checking the permission using -perm option.

If you want to use the -perm option, then in a single command you can also set the file permission if it doesn't match.

Use the command as below:

find <DIRNAME> -type f,d -perm <PERMS> | xargs chmod <NEWPERMS>

Example:

find ./ -type f,d -perm 644 | xargs chmod 755

The above command will set all the files and directories permission in the current directory matching 644 permission to 755. You can use it for other permission levels.