Making Bash modular

Question

I have a bunch of Bash scripts and they each make use of the following:

BIN_CHATTR="/usr/bin/chattr"
BIN_CHKCONFIG="/sbin/chkconfig";
BIN_WGET="/usr/bin/wget";
BIN_TOUCH="/bin/touch";
BIN_TAR="/bin/tar";
BIN_CHMOD="/bin/chmod";
BIN_CHOWN="/bin/chown";
BIN_ECHO="/bin/echo";
BIN_GUNZIP="/usr/bin/gunzip";
BIN_PATCH="/usr/bin/patch";
BIN_FIND="/usr/bin/find";
BIN_RM="/bin/rm";
BIN_USERDEL="/usr/sbin/userdel";
BIN_GROUPDEL="/usr/sbin/groupdel";
BIN_MOUNT="/bin/mount";

Is there a way I could just wget a Bash script with global settings like that and then include them in the script I want to run?

Answer 1

Yes, you can put all those variables in a file like "settings.sh" and then do this in your scripts:

source settings.sh