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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm having a little trouble returning a value from a function or calling it, I'm not quite sure.
I'm calling the function here
function region_lookup_with_details {
results = $(set_region)
echo $results
}
This is the function I'm calling
function set_region {
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Discussion started by: akechnie
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I need to return a value from the function. the value will be the output from cat command which uses random fucntion.
#!/bin/ksh
hello()
{
var1=$(`cat /dev/urandom| tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9-!%&()*+,-/:;<=>?_'|fold -w 10 | head -n 1`)
echo "value is" var1
return var1
}
hello
var=$?... (2 Replies)
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi!
(I guess this could of gone into the scripting forum, but Unix for Dummies seemed more appropriate. Please note that I am not in school, so Homework doesn't seem appropriate either. You guys can let me know if you think otherwise.)
I am following an exercise in a book on ksh scripting which... (2 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need help to store the value returned from the function to one variable and then use that variable.
PREVIOUS_DATE_FUNCTION()
{
date '+%m %d %Y' |
{
read MONTH DAY YEAR
DAY=`expr "$DAY" - 1`
case "$DAY" in
0)
MONTH=`expr "$MONTH" - 1`
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I get an error when I grep my results into a variable when the grep finds more than one file.
FND="$(find ediout* -mmin -60)"
if ; then
STR="$(find ediout* -mmin -60 -exec grep -l "ERRORS Encountered" {} +)"
fi
When there is only one ediout file it works fine. How do I... (11 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Need your assistance, to find the bug in the function.
Function usage erroring out even after passing parameters.
usage() {
if || ; then
echo "************************************************************"
echo " CHECK USAGE FOR CORRECT PARAMETERS ... (26 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Sometimes I observe this in gdb:
(gdb) br my_function
Breakpoint .. at 0x...: file ..., line ...
i.e., "my_function" does exist in the current executable.
however, dlsym does not find it:
(gdb) p dlsym(0,"my_function")
$6 = 0
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8. Programming
Hi I looked up the reference but couldn't figure out whats wrong with my log funtions in ANSI C, need this log functions for a memory compiler, please help!!
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
int main(void)
{
double d ;
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Can I create a function to return non-interger value in shell script?
for example,
function getcommand ()
{
echo "read command"
read command
echo $command
}
command=$(getcommand)
I tried to do something as above. The statement echo "read command" does not show up.
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am getting some very strange output when using date function in PERL on Solaris.
Infact the month portion is wrong and it is 1 less then the current, means today it is responding as
month =3 , andthis should be 4 ------> April
Any help
my code is
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