How to call shell script from another shell script

Question

I have two shell scripts, a.sh and b.sh.

How can I call b.sh from within the shell script a.sh?

Answer 1

There are a couple of ways you can do this. Terminal to execute the script:

#!/bin/bash
SCRIPT_PATH="/path/to/script.sh"

# Here you execute your script
"$SCRIPT_PATH"

# or
. "$SCRIPT_PATH"

# or
source "$SCRIPT_PATH"

# or
bash "$SCRIPT_PATH"

# or
eval '"$SCRIPT_PATH"'

# or
OUTPUT=$("$SCRIPT_PATH")
echo $OUTPUT

# or
OUTPUT=`"$SCRIPT_PATH"`
echo $OUTPUT

# or
("$SCRIPT_PATH")

# or
(exec "$SCRIPT_PATH")

All this is correct for the path with spaces!!!

Answer 2

You can use /bin/sh to call or execute another script (via your actual script):

 # cat showdate.sh
 #!/bin/bash
 echo "Date is: `date`"

 # cat mainscript.sh
 #!/bin/bash
 echo "You are login as: `whoami`"
 echo "`/bin/sh ./showdate.sh`" # exact path for the script file

The output would be:

 # ./mainscript.sh
 You are login as: root
 Date is: Thu Oct 17 02:56:36 EDT 2013

Answer 3

Check this out.

#!/bin/bash
echo "This script is about to run another script."
sh ./script.sh
echo "This script has just run another script."

Answer 4

Simple source will help you. For Ex.

#!/bin/bash
echo "My shell_1"
source my_script1.sh
echo "Back in shell_1"

Answer 5

Assume the new file is "/home/satya/app/app_specific_env" and the file contents are as follows

#!bin/bash

export FAV_NUMBER="2211"

Append this file reference to ~/.bashrc file

source /home/satya/app/app_specific_env

When ever you restart the machine or relogin, try echo $FAV_NUMBER in the terminal. It will output the value.

Just in case if you want to see the effect right away, source ~/.bashrc in the command line.

Answer 6

Just add in a line whatever you would have typed in a terminal to execute the script!
e.g.:

#!bin/bash
./myscript.sh &

if the script to be executed is not in same directory, just use the complete path of the script.
e.g.:`/home/user/script-directory/./myscript.sh &