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From: Bernd Eggink <eggink@uni-hamburg.de>
To: "Owen M. Astley" <oma1000@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: exiting from functions and scripts
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 10:57:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3537197E.6FD1B871@rrz.uni-hamburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980417090442.15045D-100000@alpha3.poco.phy.cam.ac.uk>

Owen M. Astley wrote:
> 
> Is there a command that will exit from a function or script with a
> particular code?
> eg something like exit (that only works in scripts) or return (that only
> works in functions)

Exit works in functions, too. It returns from the shell (not just the
function) with a given code. Return works in scripts, too. If called
outside a function, it behaves like exit.

Regards,
	Bernd
--
Bernd Eggink
Regionales Rechenzentrum der Uni Hamburg
eggink@rrz.uni-hamburg.de
http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/eggink/BEggink.html


      reply	other threads:[~1998-04-17  9:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-04-17  8:06 Owen M. Astley
1998-04-17  8:57 ` Bernd Eggink [this message]

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