Starting a pipeline in the background creates a new shell execution environment. Variables set in that new shell execution environment are not visible in the parent (foreground) shell execution environment.
There are several ways things like this can be done. One way that works if the values you want to produce in the background are always less than or equal to 255, is:
which produces the output:
but the order of the two lines in red may vary from run to run (and may be intermixed on a multi-processor system).
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The way I've been using arrays currently have been:
#!/bin/ksh
set -A myArray
myArray=value1
myArray=value2
myArray=value3
myArray=value4
Is there a way I can assign values to an array that will automatically place the value into the next element in the array like:
myArray=value1... (4 Replies)
I have to add a variable value to an array, something like this:
......
@my_array_name = $value_of_this_variable;
This doesnt seem to work, any ideas why?
Thanks! (4 Replies)
hi every body,
i donot know how to assign a array varible with a file
see i having file
more file
property1 Name
property2 Address
the above two line are tab Space seperated between the property and its value
i want to seperate it and assign to... (1 Reply)
I need to do something like this:
for i in 1 2 3 4 5; do
arr=$(awk 'NR="$i" { print $2 }' file_with_5_records)
done
That is, parse a file and assign values to an array in an ascending order relative to the number of record in the file that is being processed on each loop.
Is my... (2 Replies)
Please excuse my ineptitude for a bit as I've been spoiled for the past few months with only writing perl code instead of C.
So ok, I've been thinking about some code to change the crc32 values that are held within central directory headers of zip files.
Because I'm lazy I decided to just... (3 Replies)
hello there,
there's a function, in my shell script, i'd like to run in the background.
here's an example:
log()
{
local SELF=${0##*/}
tty -s && echo ": $*"
}
some_func()
{
# do something
log "This text is not displayed in the terminal's output when running in the... (1 Reply)
set -A matched #find referenced files.
for i in ${file_names_html}
do
counter_j=0
for j in ${file_names_minus_index}
do
match=`cat $i | grep... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am using ksh , i have requirement to run 4 functions in background , 4 functions call are available in a case that case is also in function, i need to execute 1st function it should run in background and return to case and next i will call 2nd function it should run in background and... (8 Replies)
I want to extract each and single character from a password string and put it in an array.
I tried this :
set -A password "echo $passwd | awk '{for (i=1; i<=length($1); i++) printf "%s ",substr($1,i,1)}'`
It's working as long that the password string doesn't contains any *
I tried a few... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have the following code that makes use of a URL that I store in a variable then create a document object below to work on it.
$dom = new DOMDocument;
@$dom->loadHTML($html);
$links = $dom->getElementsByTagName('a');
$links = $dom->getElementsByTagName('a');
... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: mojoman
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LEARN ABOUT X11R4
return
exit(1) User Commands exit(1)NAME
exit, return, goto - shell built-in functions to enable the execution of the shell to advance beyond its sequence of steps
SYNOPSIS
sh
exit [n]
return [n]
csh
exit [ ( expr )]
goto label
ksh
*exit [n]
*return [n]
DESCRIPTION
sh
exit will cause the calling shell or shell script to exit with the exit status specified by n. If n is omitted the exit status is that of
the last command executed (an EOF will also cause the shell to exit.)
return causes a function to exit with the return value specified by n. If n is omitted, the return status is that of the last command exe-
cuted.
csh
exit will cause the calling shell or shell script to exit, either with the value of the status variable or with the value specified by the
expression expr.
The goto built-in uses a specified label as a search string amongst commands. The shell rewinds its input as much as possible and searches
for a line of the form label: possibly preceded by space or tab characters. Execution continues after the indicated line. It is an error to
jump to a label that occurs between a while or for built-in command and its corresponding end.
ksh
exit will cause the calling shell or shell script to exit with the exit status specified by n. The value will be the least significant 8
bits of the specified status. If n is omitted then the exit status is that of the last command executed. When exit occurs when executing
a trap, the last command refers to the command that executed before the trap was invoked. An end-of-file will also cause the shell to exit
except for a shell which has the ignoreeof option (See set below) turned on.
return causes a shell function or '.' script to return to the invoking script with the return status specified by n. The value will be the
least significant 8 bits of the specified status. If n is omitted then the return status is that of the last command executed. If return
is invoked while not in a function or a '.' script, then it is the same as an exit.
On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways:
1. Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes.
2. I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments.
3. Errors cause a script that contains them to abort.
4. Words, following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a vari-
able assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name generation are not
performed.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO break(1), csh(1), ksh(1), sh(1), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 exit(1)