Comments on: Bourne/bash shell script functions

By: guille

guille — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:17:00 +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 09:21:00 +0000

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

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:46:00 +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 09:52:00 +0000

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

Khushbu — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:06:00 +0000

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

kishroe — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:57:00 +0000

simple to understand and very good for bushing up the unix