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Old 02-22-2006
obtaining a line number in ksh programming

Hi People,

how do i obtain the line number of a ksh shell script that i am working on For example in C,when u key in __LINE__ will return u the current line number of the src code.

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wilson
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Old 02-22-2006
Did you try the man pages of ksh ?

Code:
       LINENO The  line  number  of  the function or shell script that is cur-
              rently being executed.

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