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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Learning scripting -- functions capturing output Post 302300314 by TonyFullerMalv on Monday 23rd of March 2009 09:00:30 PM
Old 03-23-2009
A function that includes echoes should still echo to the terminal.
Yes for one liners functions are no normally used, for your example a case statement might be more elegant, e.g.:
Code:
case "$1" in
  "help")
     echo "This is how you use this script, valid options are help and doit."
  ;;
  "doit")
      echo "Do your stuff here"
  ;;
  *)
      echo "You did not supply a valid option, try: $0 help."
      exit 99
  ;;
esac

If you wanted to display the help info from "help" and * then that would benefit from a function.

HTH
 

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RBASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RBASH(1)

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rbash - restricted bash, see bash(1) RESTRICTED SHELL
If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a file name containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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