Re: dumn unix script question

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_cybcon.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 16:49:49 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0032178A.20010607164550@fatcity.com>

Well, you've got the right idea, just in the wrong order.

The korn shell does not compile the whole script and then execute as say Perl does.

It executes it a line at a time.

So rearrange your script like so:

---

#!/bin/ksh

function quick_test {

        echo "hello"
}

echo "supposed to show hello below"
quick_test

---

and it will work.

Might be a good idea to pick up a good Korn shell book. O'Reilly has one I believe.

I like the one by Kochan and Wood, published by Hayden books.

Jared

On Thursday 07 June 2001 15:55, Janet Linsy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This must be a really dumn question. :-<
>
> I have a script which doesn't work well, since it
> doesn't recognize a subroutine. I compared my code
> with other codes that work fine with sub function, and
> didn't see any difference. (at least look the same
> style to me.)
>
> So I wrote a really small scipt to test the sub:
> ==================================
> #!/bin/ksh
>
> echo "supposed to show hello below"
> quick_test
>
> function quick_test {
> echo "hello"
> }
> ==================================
> after I run it, I got: 1[3]: quick_test: not found.
>
> The box is:
> Machine hardware: sun4u
> OS version: 5.6
>
> Don't know ksh version, how to know ksh version
> really?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Janet
>
>
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