[plug] Bash scripting error with functions

[Nick Bannon]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 09:38:38PM +0930, Onno Benschop wrote:
> Can someone explain to me why the following script returns:
> 
>    xargs: make_file_link: No such file or directory

When /usr/bin/xargs runs, it's a new, separate program completely
separate from the context of your script. It can run other programs,
but it can't call functions in the script you called it from.

You could turn "make_file_link" into a two line executable script of its
very own, or (assuming no nasty filenames with newlines embedded) try this:

find "${source_dir}" -type f -print | while read F; do
  make_file_link "$F"
done

Nick.

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