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-rw-r--r--bash.html.markdown7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown
index 11ce4e74..4ed638e6 100644
--- a/bash.html.markdown
+++ b/bash.html.markdown
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ contributors:
- ["John Detter", "https://github.com/jdetter"]
- ["Harry Mumford-Turner", "https://github.com/harrymt"]
- ["Martin Nicholson", "https://github.com/mn113"]
+ - ["Mark Grimwood", "https://github.com/MarkGrimwood"]
filename: LearnBash.sh
translators:
- ["Dimitri Kokkonis", "https://github.com/kokkonisd"]
@@ -402,13 +403,17 @@ function foo ()
echo "Arguments work just like script arguments: $@"
echo "And: $1 $2..."
echo "This is a function"
- return 0
+ returnValue=0 # Variable values can be returned
+ return $returnValue
}
# Call the function `foo` with two arguments, arg1 and arg2:
foo arg1 arg2
# => Arguments work just like script arguments: arg1 arg2
# => And: arg1 arg2...
# => This is a function
+# Return values can be obtained with $?
+resultValue=$?
+# More than 9 arguments are also possible by using braces, e.g. ${10}, ${11}, ...
# or simply
bar ()