Timeline for Mixing function parameters, commands and command arguments in Bash functions

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Jun 10, 2020 at 13:24	history	edited	CommunityBot		Commonmark migration
Jan 31, 2014 at 18:50	comment	added	iamnewton		This is even better than my dreamed up solution, so marking this one as the answer. Thanks @rolfl
Jan 31, 2014 at 16:02	vote	accept	iamnewton
Jan 31, 2014 at 5:12	history	edited	rolfl	CC BY-SA 3.0	Include additional option
Jan 31, 2014 at 5:07	comment	added	rolfl		Updated answer with some more detail.... zzzzzz time.
Jan 31, 2014 at 5:02	history	edited	rolfl	CC BY-SA 3.0	restructure slightly add notes.
Jan 31, 2014 at 4:46	history	edited	rolfl	CC BY-SA 3.0	restructure slightly
Jan 31, 2014 at 4:46	comment	added	iamnewton		I'm a bit of a Bash noob, so would you mind breaking down the solution so I can understand it and/or can you point to some online resources. Particularly the 4 sub-processes part, the tight loop part, `$(...)` operator in my understand is only to call a function so it can be return/assigned to a value. The Perl part returns `5,` on Mac so I'm curious as to if this isn't as full proof as I'd like.
Jan 31, 2014 at 4:31	history	answered	rolfl	CC BY-SA 3.0