How to call a bash script from another script?

Question

I know there is many similar questions but I was not able to find an answer for mine:

I have couple of if and checking to get to this point of source script to call another script

source ./call.sh 

And in destination script I want to get user name from user:

#!/bin/bash passDir="/etc/passwd" while true do #propmt for username read -p "Enter username : " username egrep "^$username" $passDir >/dev/null if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo "$username exists!" else userName=$username break fi done 

But it doesn't wait for me to enter anything. It goes inside a loop and print exist unless I press Ctrl+C I appreciate if anyone can give me suggestion how to do it. In my destination script I have dozen of other prompts to get input from the user When I run destination script alone it works fine.

Answer 1

You have to write a extra script and call with source command and interactive with your script, You have to use expect interpreter such as:

#!/usr/bin/env expect send 'username\r' 

Sure, you need to pass somthing to your script and use its return status.