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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Has AudioScope found a bug in bash 4.4.5? Post 302998048 by Corona688 on Wednesday 24th of May 2017 12:56:29 PM

05-24-2017

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What it says is perfectly true: 'break' is only meaningful inside a 'for', 'while', or 'until' loop. You can't use it to break a loop outside of your function.

It shouldn't have accepted that before, and probably wasn't doing quite exactly what you planned. You should use return codes instead, to inform whatever's calling keyboard whether it succeeded or failed. That will let you ditch the 'status' variables as well.

Your loop should instead look something like

Code:

while KEYBOARD
do
...
done

And the function would be

Code:

KEYBOARD()
{
	read -r -p "Enter QUIT or EXIT to quit:- " kbinput || return 1

	if [ "$kbinput" == "QUIT" ] || [ "$kbinput" == "EXIT" ]
	then
                return 1 # Nonzero return will break while loop
	elif [ "$kbinput" == "TEST" ]
	then
		echo "Hello World!"
	fi

        return 0 # Zero return will not break while loop
}

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BASHBUG(1)						      General Commands Manual							BASHBUG(1)

NAME

       bashbug - report a bug in bash

SYNOPSIS

       bashbug [--version] [--help] [email-address]

DESCRIPTION

       bashbug	is  a shell script to help the user compose and mail bug reports concerning bash in a standard format.	bashbug invokes the editor
       specified by the environment variable EDITOR on a temporary copy of the bug report format outline. The user must fill  in  the  appropriate
       fields  and  exit  the  editor.	 bashbug  then	mails the completed report to bug-bash@gnu.org, or email-address.  If the report cannot be
       mailed, it is saved in the file dead.bashbug in the invoking user's home directory.

       The bug report format outline consists of several sections.  The first section provides information about the  machine,	operating  system,
       the  bash  version, and the compilation environment.  The second section should be filled in with a description of the bug.  The third sec-
       tion should be a description of how to reproduce the bug.  The optional fourth section is for a proposed fix.  Fixes are encouraged.

ENVIRONMENT

       bashbug will utilize the following environment variables if they exist:

       EDITOR Specifies the preferred editor. If EDITOR is not set, bashbug defaults to emacs.

       HOME   Directory in which the failed bug report is saved if the mail fails.

       TMPDIR Directory in which to create temporary files and directories.

SEE ALSO

       bash(1)

AUTHORS

       Brian Fox, Free Software Foundation
       bfox@gnu.org

       Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University
       chet@po.cwru.edu

GNU Bash-4.0							   1998 July 30 							BASHBUG(1)