[plug] Bash scripting error with functions

[Onno Benschop]

Cameron Patrick wrote:

>Craig Ringer wrote:
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>>Functions don't seem to be inherited. Chances are that xargs uses a
>>subshell, or just looks for the command directly, and it won't be able
>>to call `make_file_link' from the parent process (shell).
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>Use the source, Luke :-P
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>It uses fork() and execvp(), so it'd be looking for the binary in the
>path itself.
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So, apart from creating another separate script, how should I solve this?

I suppose I could rewrite the script to have two "modes", but that is 
pretty evil.

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