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user3120960

Reputation: 179

aix shell trouble getting value returned from function

In the script below RES always returns to nothing; Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

Thanks in advance.

#!/bin/sh
set -x
chk_for() {
    RES=0
    RES= $(head -1 $1 | fgrep -c "Formula" >&2) 
    echo "@@@@" || $RES
    return $RES
    }

for X in /home/wstandke/webcatstats/rep/AnalysisWork/*; do
    chk_for "$X" 

    if [$? == 1]
        then 
           echo "1st line is heading"
            file=$(basename $X)
            echo "fullname=" || $X
            echo "filename=" || $file
           mv $X /tmp/$file
            sed 1d /tmp/$file > $X
            rm /tmp/$file
    fi
done
cat /home/wstandke/webcatstats/rep/AnalysisWork/*  >/tmp/Analysis.report

Upvotes: 1

Views: 314

Answers (1)

Alexander L. Belikoff
Alexander L. Belikoff

Reputation: 5721

You redirect the output of fgrep to stderr, thus not assigning any value to RES.

Also, not sure if that is the problem, but there is a blank after RES= which might assign blank to RES.

Try changing the line in question to:

RES=$(head -1 $1 | fgrep -c "Formula")

Upvotes: 2

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