From 4eaafe08399ca1e95e2a3d6310fb655312385037 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MarkGrimwood <83716751+MarkGrimwood@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2021 19:15:03 +0100
Subject: [bash/en] Update bash.html.markdown (#4202)

Additional info on arguments and return values for functions
---
 bash.html.markdown | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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 ()
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