December 2018
Beginner
452 pages
12h 17m
English
We now know it's relatively easy to get the words Hello world! to appear on our terminal. A simple echo "Hello world!" does just the trick. However, if we wanted to do this multiple times, how would we go about it? You could suggest using any kind of loop, which would indeed allow us to print multiple times. However, that loop also requires some extra code and planning up front. As you will notice, in practice loops are great for iterating over items, but not exactly suitable for reusing code in a predictable manner. Let's see how we can use a function to do this instead:
reader@ubuntu:~/scripts/chapter_13$ vim hello-world-function.shreader@ubuntu:~/scripts/chapter_13$ cat hello-world-function.sh #!/bin/bash##################################### ...