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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Korn shell scripting Post 302469964 by vedder191 on Monday 8th of November 2010 07:17:36 PM
Old 11-08-2010
Korn shell scripting

I am attempting to learn shell programming using o'rielly book "Learning the Korn Shell".

I am finding it pretty difficult to do since the only access I have to unix boxes are running version 99 of ksh.

The book utilizes ksh93 and there appear to be many differences. I can't even follow along with the examples.

I am running into problems with setting compound variables and etc.

My question is can anyone recommend a book/tutorial dealing with ksh99? Or at least some type of bridge between the two that will allow me to utilize the book?
 

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DtMmdbBookGetShortTitle(library call)									     DtMmdbBookGetShortTitle(library call)

NAME
DtMmdbBookGetShortTitle -- obtains the short title of a book SYNOPSIS
#include <DtMmdb.h> const char* DtMmdbBookGetShortTitle( DtMmdbInfoRequest* request, unsigned int* length); DESCRIPTION
The DtMmdbBookGetShortTitle function returns the short title of the specified book object. Do not use the free function on the returned pointer. Table lookup is involved when the identifier is specified by either the primary_oid or sequence_num field. ARGUMENTS
request Specifies the bookcase in the bookcase descriptor field, as well as a valid value in the primary_oid, the secondary_oid, or the sequence_num field. The primary_oid represents the DtInfo Database object identifier of the TOC section; the secondary_oid rep- resents the object identifier of the book itself; and the sequence_num represents the sequence number of the book within the bookcase (0 based). If more than one of these fields have a valid value, the order of precedence is: primary_oid, secondary_oid, and, last, sequence_num. length Specifies the variable to receive the length of the returned short title, if the returned pointer to the title is not NULL. RETURN VALUE
If DtMmdbBookGetShortTitle completes successfully, it returns a pointer to the book's short title. If it fails, it returns a NULL pointer. EXAMPLE
None. SEE ALSO
DtMmdbBookGetLongTitle(3) DtMmdbBookGetShortTitle(library call)
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