On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 07:47:54PM +0530, Ravi Jaya wrote: > I like to know, what is the significant of the command `typeset`, when to > use it in the real time. If your are the one who used it in the shell > scripting, please let me know when, where and why did you used it and in > which context. > > I checked the man pages and enough goggled for `typeset`.
You should check the bash man page. It's used to set some attributes to variables. For example, x=Kumar typeset -r x x=Kumar2 # ← Causes an error, since "-r" marks x read only. The bash man page provides a short explanation. This should help as well: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/declareref.html HTH. Kumar -- : ####[ GNU/Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]####################### Sub : Displaying M$ .doc atts under mutt LOST #750 To view M$-word .doc attachments under mutt, do an ASCII conversion with antiword [http://www.winfield.demon.nl/] and then, put the following line into .mailcap: application/msword; antiword %s; copiousoutput ####[ usmbish (at) users.sourceforge.net ]#################### : _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
