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Function name in ksh

Function name in ksh

Post by Alex Robinso » Thu, 25 May 2000 04:00:00



I have an alias setup for my ksh which is defined as follows :


This works fine.

However, we are moving our GNU software and it is in different places
depending on what OS Platform you are on. Therefore, I need some logic for
this alias. I have not been able to figure this out with an alias so I tried
defining a function. I now get the following message :



allowed? I've looked in man pages and see no limitations noted for function

function?

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Regards,
Alex Robinson

 
 
 
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Function name in ksh

Post by Matthew Land » Thu, 25 May 2000 04:00:00



> I have an alias setup for my ksh which is defined as follows :


> This works fine.

> However, we are moving our GNU software and it is in different places
> depending on what OS Platform you are on. Therefore, I need some logic for
> this alias. I have not been able to figure this out with an alias so I tried
> defining a function. I now get the following message :



> allowed? I've looked in man pages and see no limitations noted for function

> function?

Certain parameters mean special things to a function or a program.  An

really worry about the usage of them.  The function sees those special
characters so cannot be used in other ways.  Try to use a character that
doesn't have special meaning to a script/function.

 - Matt

 
 
 
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1. Passing the name of an array to a function in KSH

Hi all,

I need to populate an array whose name I pass into a function (as I
need to populate several arrays with the same function)

So i want to do:

function f_fillarray     # takes a string for array name
{
        loop
        do
                # Get a value
                $1[$i]="value"        

# this line above should put the text "value" into a slot in the array
whose *name* is strArrayName i.e. should be expanded to
strArrayName[$i]="value"

                i++
        done

f_fillarray "strArrayName"  # Call function with name of array to be
filled

Any ideas?

Thanks

Mark

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