I'm playing with ksh. I'm trying to do a simple task:
read file name from cli and call a function which calculated number of lines in file.
I'm getting coredump every time when I try to read that file.
Korn shell version
$ print ${.sh.version}
Version AJM 93u+ 2012-08-01
Main program
function name (stored in file with same name in /home/dev/ksh)
I need to pass a parameter to a function in a script. My parameter is a string. When I display the parameter within my function, I only get the first word from string I pass in.
How can I make the function receive the whole string (and not terminate at the first space it encounters)?.
part of... (2 Replies)
Hi, i have a question:
i build this function:
function WriteLog {
....
...
print $*
print $* >> FileLog
....
....
}
the function are called with this sintax:
.....
..... (8 Replies)
Passing a array to a function, a basic feature in modern language, seems to be only possible in KSH. Not in BASH. Depite all my efforts I couldn't come to a solution. See the following examples:
It works perfectly in KSH:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
function print_array {
# assign array by indirect... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
Calling a function with one argument and storing the return value in a shell script is as below:( so far I know)
value="`fun_1 "argument1"`"
Its working perfectly for me.
Can u help me with passing more than one argument and storing the return value
Thnaks in advance
JS (1 Reply)
Hi ,
I have three funcions f1, f2 and f3 .
f1 calls f2 and f2 calls f3 .
I have a global variable "period" which i want to pass to f3 .
Can i pass the variable directly in the definition of f3 ?
Pls help .
sars (4 Replies)
Hi,
I'm trying to work on the script given below
#!/bin/ksh -x
pfile()
{
echo "$1"
}
touch smp19
echo "Hi" > smp19
result=$(pfile $smp19)
echo $result
As highlighted , when i pass $smp19 as parameter ,it does not display the output.However when i try giving "Hi" instead... (2 Replies)
I'm working on AIX 6, ksh shell. The parameters are some strings quotated by double quotation marks which from a file. They are quotated because there may be spaces in them.
Example:
"015607" "10" " " "A"I want to pass these parameters to a shell function by writing the following command:
... (4 Replies)
May i please know why is it printing the script name for $0 when i pass those parameters to function.
#!/bin/bash -x
usage()
{
echo "In Usage Function"
echo $0
echo $1
echo $2
}
echo "printing first time"
echo $0
echo $1
echo $2
usage $0 $1 $2
Output: (2 Replies)
Hello All,
I would like to ask help from you on how to pass variable value from a function that has been called inside the function. I have created below and
put the variables in " ". Is there another way I can do this? Thank you in advance.
readtasklist() {
while read -r mod ver... (1 Reply)
Apologies if this is the incorrect forum.There is an issue in the function call I am facing while calling the same from a unix shell scripts.
Basically, I want the ref cursor to return values to a variable in sqlpus. The function call is currently saved in a ".txt" file
in a unix location. I want... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: amvip
7 Replies
LEARN ABOUT LINUX
suspend
suspend(1) User Commands suspend(1)NAME
suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell
SYNOPSIS
sh
suspend
csh
suspend
ksh
suspend
DESCRIPTION
sh
Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).
csh
Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su.
ksh
Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO csh(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1), su(1M), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 suspend(1)