Re: Korn shell function paramter passing

• you've called the main function either in the background or some other way that forks a new shell (eg a pipe).
• according to http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/ksh-functions.html you can get this when you use backticks - never done this myself.

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:11 PM, <Joel.Patterson_at_crowley.com> wrote:

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> *From:* Niall Litchfield [mailto:niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com]
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> *To:* Patterson, Joel
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> *Subject:* Re: Korn shell function paramter passing
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> are you using typeset to define local variables by any chance?
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> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:00 PM, <Joel.Patterson_at_crowley.com> wrote:
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> Joel Patterson
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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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