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Time Narration
00:01 Dear friends, Welcome to the spoken tutorial onAdvance topics in a function
00:08 In this tutorial, we will learn
00:11 Source command
00:12 To put a function in the background
00:14 With the help of some examples.
00:18 To follow this tutorial you should have knowledge of Shell Scripting in BASH.
00:24 If not, for relevant tutorials, please visit our website which is as shown http://spoken-tutorial.org/What\_is\_a\_Spoken\_Tutorial
00:30 For this tutorial I am using
00:32 * Ubuntu Linux 12.04 Operating System and
00:36 GNU BASH version 4.2
00:40 Please note, GNU Bash version 4 or above is recommended for practice.
00:46 Source command is used to load a file into Shell script.
00:53 It reads and execute commands from that file.
00:58 It also imports code into the script.
01:01 This is useful when multiple scripts use a common data or a function library.
01:09 The syntax for Source command is as follows.
01:12 source filename
01:15 source Path_to_file
01:18 souce filename arguments
01:22 Let me open a file 'function dot sh'.
01:26 This is theshebang line.
01:29 Source detail dot sh will load the file detail dot sh into function dot sh
01:37 Let me open detail dot sh file.
01:41 I have a function machin.
01:44 Now type inside the function,
01:47 echo '"function machine is called in function dot sh file"'
01:52 Click on Save.
01:54 Now let us go back to function dot sh file.
01:59 Here type echo “Beginning of program”
02:04 Click on Save
02:06 Then type machine echo “End of program”
02:12 This will print the message “Beginning of program”
02:16 machine is the function call.
02:19 And this will print the message End of program
02:23 Note that machine is the function which we created in the detail dot sh file.
02:29 And we are calling the function here in function dot sh file.
02:34 Now click on Save.
02:36 Let us execute the program.
02:41 So type on the terminal chmod space plus (+) x space function dot sh
02:51 Press Enter
02:53 Type dot slash function dot sh
02:56 Press Enter.
02:59 The output is displayed
03:02 Now let's move on to background function.
03:06 To run a process in the background, we use & (ampersand) at the end of a function call.
03:13 The shell forks a child process to run the command.
03:19 The forked process will have a job number and a PID (Process IDentifier)
03:27 Let us understand this with the help of an example. I will open the file background dot sh
03:35 This is the shebang line.
03:38 bg underscore function marks the beginning of the function.
03:44 The echo statement here displays the message "Inside bg_function”
03:50 Next, we will use the find command to find all the dotmp3 files.
03:57 This statement will find all the files with the extension dot mp3
04:03 It will do so in the current working directory.
04:07 Hyphen iname is used to ignore the case.
04:11 And the result is stored in myplaylist.txt.
04:16 Now type bg underscore function ampersand(&) This is the function call. &(Ampersand) puts 'bg_function' in the background.
04:28 Now click on Save.
04:31 Let us execute the program.
04:34 Come back to the terminal.
04:37 Type chmod space plus x space background dot sh
04:45 Press Enter.
04:46 Now type dot slash background dot sh
04:51 Press Enter.
04:53 Blank output indicates dot mp3 file is not present in current directory.
05:02 Now, come back to our program.
05:05 Type echo (hyphen) -e "'Process runing in background are slash n'" and jobs space hyphen l
05:19 Click on Save
05:21 This echo statement will displays the message “Process runing in background are ”
05:28 Jobs space hyphen l lists the status of all background jobs.
05:34 Now come back to our terminal.
05:38 Now type dot slash background.sh
05:42 Press Enter.
05:44 The output is shown.
05:48 Here, one within opening and closing square bracket is the job number.
05:53 3962 is the PID.
05:57 PID will vary accordingly.
06:01 If the function takes time to execute, it will run in the background.
06:06 And we will see the status as Running.
06:11 If the function gets executed before the script, we will see the status as Done
06:20 The output will vary from machine to machine.
06:23 This brings us to the end of this tutorial.
06:28 Let us Summarise.
06:29 In this tutorial we learnt
06:32 Source command
06:34 To put a function in the background
06:36 With the help of some examples
06:39 As an assignment:
06:40 Write a function add to add two numbers and call the function in another file.
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07:42 This is Ashwini from IIT Bombay. Thank you for joining.

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