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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Function prototype declaration Post 302866627 by Corona688 on Tuesday 22nd of October 2013 12:40:37 PM
Old 10-22-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Balasankar
Isn't possibe to decare prototype kind of statement as we do in C++ ?
Nope.

C++ can do that because it's a compiled language. It can assume that "okay, there's a function named xyzzy, I can find its contents later". When the program gets linked together into an exe, it has to actually go find all these libraries to do so.

Shell language runs immediately with no compilation step. If those functions don't already exist, they don't exist. (A few shells might have special features here. These features do not exist in general.)

Even C++ can't manage if you don't tell it what the functions actually are though! At the very least you have to #include <something> before you use them, for it to even assume they exist. You can do something like #include in shell. Put your function, or a bunch of functions, in another file then do this:

Code:
. /path/to/script-name

Note the space between the dot and everything else, that's essential.

script-name will be run in your current shell, effectively loading the functions in it.
 

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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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