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Old 01-04-09, 14:42
prasadv18 prasadv18 is offline
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Calling function

Hi Every one

I need Hlep i am not good at shell scripting
i want to merge two scripts say offline as function offline()
i need to call that functions in following way is is possilbe le me know
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echo " OFF/ON"
read option

if [ $option -eq 'OFF' ];
then
offline();
else
online()
fi;

offline()
{
who am i > temp1.txt
}

online()
{
ls -lrt > temp2.txt
}
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Old 01-05-09, 14:09
LKBrwn_DBA LKBrwn_DBA is offline
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You do not need the parenthesis when cakking the function:

Code:
offline() {
  who am i > temp1.txt
}
online() {
  ls -lrt > temp2.txt
}

echo " OFF/ON"
read option

if [ "$option" -eq 'OFF' ];
then
  offline
else
  online
fi
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