Well, you've got the right idea, just in the
wrong order.
The korn shell does not compile the whole script
and then execute as say Perl does.
It executes it a line at a time.
So rearrange your script like so:
==================================
#!/bin/ksh
function quick_test {
echo "hello"
}
echo "supposed to show hello below"
quick_test
==================================
and it will work.
Might be a good idea to pick up a good Korn
shell book. O'Reilly has one I believe.
I like the one by Kochan and Wood, published
by Hayden books.
Jared
On Thursday 07 June 2001 15:55, Janet Linsy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This must be a really dumn question. :-<
>
> I have a script which doesn't work well, since it
> doesn't recognize a subroutine. I compared my code
> with other codes that work fine with sub function, and
> didn't see any difference. (at least look the same
> style to me.)
>
> So I wrote a really small scipt to test the sub:
> ==================================
> #!/bin/ksh
>
> echo "supposed to show hello below"
> quick_test
>
> function quick_test {
> echo "hello"
> }
> ==================================
> after I run it, I got: 1[3]: quick_test: not found.
>
> The box is:
> Machine hardware: sun4u
> OS version: 5.6
>
> Don't know ksh version, how to know ksh version
> really?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Janet
>
>
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