Shell Programming and Scripting

How can i invoke a function from the shell. ex lspath is the name of the function but when i try $ lspath from the command prompt i get /bin/ksh: lspath: not found. I have put the lspath in to my .profile as in export lspath. it is not working. please help

It is difficult to understand what you want, but check the following:
1) It seems that 'lspath' executable does not exist or is not in your $PATH.
2) If you are running this from something like CRON then your ~/.profile is not evaluated before execution

you can just call lspath itself.
The function definition should be at the begining of the script
eg:-

#!/usr/bin/ksh
# program starts here
lspath()
{

...
...


}


lspath


# program ends here

It seems to work. After I execute the file. but I still can not use the lspath function from the command prompt. ex $ lspath don't work. But thank you

I don't know what you really want to do (I don't understand why you want to write a function for command line usage ) but it seems to me you'd be better off removing the function tags and putting the scripts in your path (/usr/bin/local, for example).

Further, given the name of this function, I'm guessing you'd probably be even in better shape just using an alias in your .profile .

Double post.....

Hello,

You can not call the function from the command prompt.
The lspath function can be called from your shell script.

Regards,
Thobias Vakayil