On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:57:18AM -0700, Justin Bengtson wrote:
>
>is it possible, in a BASH script, to invoke a program, stuff the return into
>a variable and perform actions based on what was returned? what if the
>invoked program returned multiple results? is there a way to sort them out
>and assign them each variables?
>
Bash supports arrays, so you can have a function return an array and then
use that array in other things; Larry still has my bash book, so that's about
all i can say with confidence :-)
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