Friday, September 6, 2013

Shell Programming : 10 | Functions

Hello.... Friends Today we are going to discus about the functions in the Shell Programming  or shell Scripting. as we knows a function have vary important role in any Programming Language. Basically we use the functions to define any specific set of code & that set of code which is defined under functions can be called at another part of programs as we want.
so we can say that any function is a way of arrangements of code in a small part & well manners.

Let's check how to define a function in a shell programming...

How to Define a function :

Basically in shell script function is define by pair of parentheses () or by curly brackets {} just after function name.

for exp.

this is a very simple Demo to define a function here func() is our function & the function is enclosed in curly brackets {}  this is the condition we assign, here one this to be understand is if i want the same output at other part of program then now i have to just call the func() now we not need to write the program inside curly brackets {} again & again.

To understand func. let's take more example:
this is our vary simple script which gives us the useful information about our system by using function call, here i am just calling a function mach() & in function i define the various commands
for Machine information and calling this function with mach at the end.


here is the output file which we collect from our above script :)


In this tutorial we just need to understand what is function, how to call it & how to use it in scripts .
thank you  ~:) ~:)

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