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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Use of functions Post 302146953 by radoulov on Friday 23rd of November 2007 05:52:30 AM
Old 11-23-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by amitrajvarma
Hi

my shell is tcsh

can I have functions in my shell scripting?
[...]
No.



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