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by **Dean Brissing** » Thu, 17 Aug 1995 04:00:00

Does the BSD bourne shell support the "function" and "readonly"
ability? I'd like to find a list of differances between the two, is
there one anywhere?

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by **Soren Dayt** » Fri, 18 Aug 1995 04:00:00

> Does the BSD bourne shell support the "function" and "readonly"
>ability? I'd like to find a list of differances between the two, is
>there one anywhere?

On my SunOS 4.1.3_U1 I have a readonly builtin. I am not sure
what you mean by "function". It supports function definition
as:

name () {
commands

Quote:}

but not

function name {
commands

Quote:}

Is that what you are referring to?

Soren

by **Donn Ca** » Fri, 18 Aug 1995 04:00:00

| Does the BSD bourne shell support the "function"

No.

| and "readonly" ability?

Yes.

I assume we're not talking about the shell you get with current BSD
releases, but rather the shell that you get with BSD 4.2 derived systems
like Ultrix.

Donn Cave, University Computing Services, University of Washington

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