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Old 04-28-2010
In bash getting weird output from function ?

My script-
Code:
result=""
times()
{
echo "inside the times function"
result=8
echo "Inside function $result"
return $result
}
result=$(times)
echo "the value is "$?
echo "the value of result $result"

when I run I get this, why the value still remain 0.

Code:
$ ./func
the value is 0
the value of result 0m0.015s 0m0.031s
0m0.000s 0m0.000s

Even the echo command also did not print anything.
 

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