Stephane Chazelas wrote: > To work around that, you have to do things like this in > /etc/profile: > ... > And do something similar in your ~/.profile for your ~/.bashrc.
While that is normal to do to configure interactive sessions the original question was where should shell functions be placed for use by scripts. I think the above answer is a good answer but to a different question. It reads as if this is a suggestion to place shell functions in a bashrc file and I wanted to clarify that that is not the case. Non-interactive scripts should not normally be reading system or personal bashrc customization files. Putting a function in a bashrc would still not make it visible to scripts. This of the problems that scripts would have if user's aliases for ls='ls -F --color=always' and rm='rm -i' were seen by scripts. Script authors need a known stable run environment. In summary shell functions should be defined in the script or defined in a file sourced by the script. Bob
