Creating a Library
Now that you have learned the basics about creating and using a library, you can create a library of utility functions designed to facilitate scripting tasks. In this section, you will learn about several of the functions from the library. The “Questions” section at the end of this chapter asks you to develop five additional functions for this library. The entire library, including sample implementations of the functions you will be asked to develop, is listed in Appendix D,“Shell Function Library.”
Naming the Library
For the purposes of this discussion, assume that the library is located in the file $HOME/lib/sh/libTYSP2.sh. The name of this library was derived as follows:
The lib in libTYSP2.sh indicates that this file is ...
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