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From: mjl@bos.locus.com (Mike Leibensperger)
Subject: Re: [BSD4.3reno] /bin/sh problem?
In-Reply-To: rodmur@ecst.csuchico.edu's message of 4 Nov 92 23: 24:47 GMT
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:37:21 GMT
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In article <1d9m3vINN8nh@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>
rodmur@ecst.csuchico.edu (Dale Harris) writes:
Has anyone ever tried doing a function or sub-routine in a shell script
in BSD4.3 or BSD4.4, it doesn't seem to want to work, and it works on
several other flavors of Unix.
func()
{
shell script stuff here
;}
func
You only get shell functions with the Korn shell (/bin/ksh, linked to
/bin/sh on some systems). The Korn shell requires a seperate license
from AT&T or USL or whatever, so I doubt that stuff straight out of
Berkeley (4.3reno, 4.4, Net2) comes with it.
yr obdnt svnt,
mjl
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