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Re: Bourne/bash shell script functions

guille — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:17:33 -0000

Nice tutorial, but i have a lot of problem with control structures in the { } of functions. Today i have a exam, :(
Thks a lot! and good blog!

Penton — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:21:36 -0000

You can use return to return the result generated within a function. Please read more about this within the following URL:

http://www.faqs.org/docs/ab...
(Example 23-3. Maximum of two numbers)

neerajnandwana — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:46:18 -0000

i found some problem with the second code
so i modified like this :)

#!/bin/bash
sum()
{
if [ -z "$2" ]
then
echo "sum: $1"
else
local a=`expr $1 + $2`
shift 2
sum $a $@
fi
}
sum 3 5 34

vaiju — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:52:12 -0000

The article was very useful. Thanks a ton !!!

Khushbu — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:06:52 -0000

wat will be the output of
[-z "$2"]; echo $;
sh amit

kishroe — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:57:02 -0000

simple to understand and very good for bushing up the unix