Returning value from called function in a shell scriptI want to return the value from a function called in a shell script. Perhaps I am missing the syntax. I tried using the global variables. But that is also not working. The code is: lockdir="somedir" test() { retval="" if mkdir "$lockdir" then # Directory did not exist, but it was created successfully echo >&2 "successfully acquired lock: $lockdir" retval="true" else echo >&2 "cannot acquire lock,
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