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I'm working actually in a shell script to monitor a server resources. I have a function and I want to know how can I call a second function inside the main one.

Example:

funct mainfunct(){

echo "Text to show here" **$secondfunct**

}

funct secondfunct(){
commands
}
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Write the name of the first function in the body of the second function ? – 123 Mar 4 at 15:42
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What shell is that? I don't recognize the "funct" part. – Jeff Schaller Mar 4 at 16:32
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In ksh or bash,

mainfunct() {
  echo "Text to show here" $(secondfunct)
}

secondfunct() {
  echo commands here
}

mainfunct

Generates the following:

Text to show here commands here

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It should be noted that the $(secondfunct) here would expand to the words resulting from the split+glob operator applied to the standard output of secondfunct stripped of all trailing newline characters. – Stéphane Chazelas Mar 4 at 16:53
    
That's not limited to bash and ksh. That would work in any POSIX shell (and some non POSIX ones like ash or zsh (though zsh wouldn't do the glob part and not choke on NUL bytes)) – Stéphane Chazelas Mar 4 at 16:55
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android@localhost:~/test$ cat fun.sh
function myname {
  echo "my name is raja"
}

function call {
  myname
}
call
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