Re: Korn shell function paramter passing
- From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Joel.Patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:06:58 +0100
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
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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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