Re: Korn shell function paramter passing

are you using typeset to define local variables by any chance?

Niall

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:00 PM, <Joel.Patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> Joel Patterson
> Database Administrator
> 904 727-2546
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> This one I'm spending to much time on.
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> I have a korn shell script.
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> #!/usr/bin/ksh
> Do some initialization commands
> Call a function startlogfile
> Call function 'main'
>     main calls function runsomething
>         Runsomething initializes and returns "${SUBJECT}"
>     main can print ${SUBJECT}
>     main returns ${SUBJECT}  (or "${SUBJECT}", or ASUBJECT=${SUBJECT}
>                              successfully ${ASUBJECT}, or "${ASUBJECT}"
> outer most shell cannot print $SUBJECT
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> what's going on?
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> Thanks,
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