Confirm if a file is sourced in Bash
You could be working on a project and then you are meant to source the file, you did it and yet you arent seeing changes, it happens.
For example you have an env file that holds some environment variable, and you want to make sure this values remain in your shell even after the scripts entrypoint execution.
To satisfy your curiousity or should we say debug your issue, you would have to do the following
create a bash script with nano src.sh and copy paste the below script.
source $1 0 2>/dev/null && sourced=1 || sourced=0
if [ $sourced -eq 0 ]; then
echo "ERROR, this script is yet to be sourced. Retry 'source $1'"
exit 1
fi
then run it against the file you want to source with the following command sh src.sh myfile.env
More Explanation about the Script
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0 - standard input (stdin)
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1 - standard output (stdout)
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2 - standard err (stderr)
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'>' - passing the command outcome to whatever file is put along
And we know that /dev/null is a dead hole in linux, whatever you pass in there cant be read again
so now if the command source OURFILE runs successfully then the value 1 would be set for the variable sourced
but if the command source OURFILE fails, this means sourced=1 wont run, which signifies failure, hence sourced=0 runs, the value 0 would be set for the variable sourced
Then the value of sourced is what we are playing with in the if statement, so we know that when sourced = 0, the operation isnt sucessful, hence spit out the error message.
Command A && Command B || Command C
Command B only runs if Command A succeeds, and if Command B doesnt run which signifies failure, Command C runs
And we are done with our validation