Moving these useful functions out to a separate file

simple-setup.sh

@@ -1,44 +1,9 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-# A function to make a statement.
-declaim () {
-    echo
-    echo ${*}
-    echo "==============="
-    echo
-}
-
-# A function to print the git command to be executed and then to
-# execute it
-git_command() {
-  # Print out the command.
-  echo
-  echo    "git command: ${*}"
-
-  # Some variable initialisations
-  COMMANDSTRING="${*}"
-  counter=0
-  UNDERLINESTRING=""
-
-  # Build UNDERLINESTRING to be a string of '-' characters the same
-  # length of all the options passed in.
-  while [ ${counter} -lt ${#COMMANDSTRING} ]
-  do
-    UNDERLINESTRING="${UNDERLINESTRING}-"
-    counter=$(( ${counter} + 1 ))
-  done
-
-  # Print the pretty underline
-  echo -n "             "
-  echo ${UNDERLINESTRING}
-  echo
-
-  # Execute the command.
-  eval ${*}
-}
-
 SCRIPT_DIR=$(cd $(dirname ${0}); pwd)
 
+. ${SCRIPT_DIR}/utils.sh
+
 REPO_DIR=${SCRIPT_DIR}/simpleRepo
 
 if [ ${#} -eq 1 ]; then

utils.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+
+if [ "${UTILS_LOADED}" = "Y" ]; then
+  echo "Returning"
+  return
+fi
+
+# A function to make a statement.
+declaim () {
+    echo
+    echo ${*}
+    echo "==============="
+    echo
+}
+
+# A function to print the git command to be executed and then to
+# execute it
+git_command() {
+  # Print out the command.
+  echo
+  echo    "git command: ${*}"
+
+  # Some variable initialisations
+  COMMANDSTRING="${*}"
+  counter=0
+  UNDERLINESTRING=""
+
+  # Build UNDERLINESTRING to be a string of '-' characters the same
+  # length of all the options passed in.
+  while [ ${counter} -lt ${#COMMANDSTRING} ]
+  do
+    UNDERLINESTRING="${UNDERLINESTRING}-"
+    counter=$(( ${counter} + 1 ))
+  done
+
+  # Print the pretty underline
+  echo -n "             "
+  echo ${UNDERLINESTRING}
+  echo
+
+  # Execute the command.
+  eval ${*}
+}
+
+export UTILS_LOADED="Y"