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# 8  
Old 11-20-2003
awk is a powerful language but I must admit, not the most intuitive! Once you get the basics down, you will find that you will use it quite often. Remember to have some patience, and that if you have trouble with it, well, you can always post your questions to the UNIX forums! Here are a couple sites to get information from (beginers):
Awk: Quick Overview
Getting Started With Awk
Awk For Beginners
# 9  
Old 11-20-2003
I agree that awk is very powerful and I use it a lot. However, it is not necessary here. Building on mbb's code, but using an array to hold the returned values:
Code:
set -A RETURN_VAR $(called_script param1 10 20)
echo First returned value is ${RETURN_VAR[0]}
echo Second returned value is ${RETURN_VAR[1]}

# 10  
Old 11-20-2003
Thanks for the info, the array will definitely work forSmilie

This is probably going to seem like a really dumb question to you, but I don't understand what the 10 and 20 is for when you call the script?
# 11  
Old 11-20-2003
They are just example parameters to the called script, as per mbb's sample code. To clarify by using your sample...
Code:
set -A RETURN_VAR $(proc2.sh $1 $2 etc.)

# 12  
Old 11-20-2003
Thanks mate. This is going to come in handy!
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