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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash functions sequence ? Post 303022467 by rovf on Saturday 1st of September 2018 10:09:10 AM
Old 09-01-2018
I can understand that you prefer ksh over bash in general, but I don't see how for this particular case, ksh would give an advantage over bash. I must admit that I'm not proficient at all in ksh, and would appreciate an explanation of this matter.
 

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let(1)                                                             User Commands                                                            let(1)

NAME
let - shell built-in function to evaluate one or more arithmetic expressions SYNOPSIS
ksh let arg... DESCRIPTION
ksh Each arg is a separate "arithmetic expression" to be evaluated. EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 The value of the last expression is non-zero. 1 The value of the last expression is zero. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
ksh(1), set(1), typeset(1), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 let(1)
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