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The Prodigal Son
About 10 years ago I got into K shell scripting in a big way (for a beginner). I absolutely loved it and wrote a number of database maintenance scripts that, while basic, worked extremely well.
Somehow, somewhere I picked up the style of scripting that was very similar to when I was doing Cobol programming, a central "command center" type structure (that was usually at the bottom of the script), that would direct the code to, for example, run section/paragraph/function (whatever the proper name is) 1, return to the command center, then run 2 etc. I saved off my scripts on a CD and they were lost in a move.
I spent the next 10 years in a position that did not involve scripting and I lost/forgot much of what I knew. Now I am again in a scripting position. I'd love to work on being able to recreate some of those type scripts but I haven't been able to find any source on the web or elsewhere that would detail that type scripting.
Can anyone point me to a source, book, web site etc that would enable me to get back to that type of scripting by function/module etc?
Many thanks.
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