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petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I also noticed that they were talking about sending arguments to a custom function? That’s like a day-one lesson if you already program. But this was something they couldn’t find in regular search?

Maybe I misunderstood something.

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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Exactly. If you understand that functions are just commands, then it’s quite easy to extrapolate how to pass arguments to that function:

function my_func () { echo $1 $2 $3 # prints a b c } my_func a b c

Once you understand that core concept, a lot of Bash makes way more sense. Oh, and most of the syntax I provided above is completely unnecessary, because Bash…
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