Bash Tutorial 5: Functions
132How to use Functions in Bash Script. Functions are a handy feature to use when your code starts getting a bit large. I cover how to parse variables into the function and how to get a return value (which isn't particularly straight forward in Bash compared to other programming languages).
In this tutorial I show how:
0:34 Create a Basic Function
1:00 Input Variables / Arguments into a Function
2:09 Return a value using error code
4:18 Return a value using a global variable
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