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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Goto - UNIX v6 Manual Questions Post 302929687 by orbit on Wednesday 24th of December 2014 09:13:20 AM
Old 12-24-2014
Questions regarding command manual

Hey Smilie I am trying to understand the command goto.
I have some questions regarding the goto manual.

1.
Quote:
Goto is allowed only when the Shell is taking commands from a file.
What does the underlined part mean?
I'm not allowed to type goto in the shell? But if goto is written into a file everything is okay?

2.
Quote:
The file is searched from the beginning for a line beginning with `:' followed by one or more spaces followed by the label.
So if a part of my file looks like this
Code:
...
goto end
...

Then he would look for a part like this
Code:
: end

But I have seen some scripts and I think they were from Unix v6, it looked everytime like this
Code:
end:

So what is now the right order?

3.
Quote:
If such a line is found, the goto command returns. Since the read pointer in the command file points to the line after the label, the effect is to cause the Shell to transfer to the labelled line.
Is it legal to write any other command in the line with the ":"?
For example
Code:
:end echo "Hello"

or
Code:
end: echo "Hello"

I'm not expecting that one person answers all 3 questions, you can pick the one you like.

Thank you for your help
and Merry Christmas Smilie

Ps. I mean this manual: v6shell.org/man/goto.1.html

Last edited by orbit; 01-05-2015 at 02:18 PM..
 

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