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One often wishes to cut and paste commonly used commands into a shell script for later reference, and reuse. So we introduce an approach for invoking parameterized functions in a bash script.
Herewith starts a new series of articles on Bash Shell scripting tips and tricks.
One often wishes to cut and paste commonly used commands into a shell script for later reference, and reuse.
We write lots of cron scripts to perform routine maintenance tasks on our systems. We usually want a script to perform various tasks in succession, but also be able to invoke those individually in an adhoc fashion e.g. to test that task.
So in this article, we introduce a dynamic approach for invoking parameterized commands in a bash script.
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