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Bash recursive scripting
Post 302150798 by porter on Wednesday 12th of December 2007 05:52:30 PM
12-12-2007
Probably because it's homework? 
Seriously, bash is just a programming language like others and recursion can be done two ways....
1. starting child processes
2. calling functions
the function calling approach is often the best because it does not keep having to spawn new processes.
However variables then become and issue, with child processes they can only inherit variables, functions can change variables.
Bash also supports local variables in functions which are not global.
Seriously, bash is just a programming language like others and recursion can be done two ways....
1. starting child processes
2. calling functions
the function calling approach is often the best because it does not keep having to spawn new processes.
However variables then become and issue, with child processes they can only inherit variables, functions can change variables.
Bash also supports local variables in functions which are not global.
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