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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting function returns string Post 302133474 by lalelle on Thursday 23rd of August 2007 01:18:10 PM
Old 08-23-2007
function returns string
Can I create a function to return non-interger value in shell script?

for example,
function getcommand ()
{
echo "read command"
read command
echo $command

}


command=$(getcommand)


I tried to do something as above. The statement echo "read command" does not show up.

Normally, how can we create a function to return something except an integer?
 

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