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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
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This is the function I'm calling
function set_region {
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Hi,
I need to return a value from the function. the value will be the output from cat command which uses random fucntion.
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hello()
{
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hello
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.....
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I am trying to grep a .txt file for a word. When I hit enter, it returns back to $
The file is 4155402 in size and is named in this way:
*_eveningtimes_done_log.txt
I use this command, being in the same directory as the file:
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Is there a command where I can pipe my grep into it and it will output it with spaces rather than returns?
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blah
blah
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