Bash - Returning String From Functions

[jbarnes8]

...how do I do it. I've read every tutorial i could find and all I found was some back asswards way of to 'pass-by-reference' and changing the actual variable sent to the function.

Basically all I want to do is this, except using bash scripting

using namespace std;          //just for you code nazi's - you know who you are
string createSomeText()
{
         string x  = "Foo Bar"
         return x;
}

int main()
{
      string text = createSomeText();
      return 0;
}

[drl]

Hi.

Yes, you need to get 2 features together, the first is the function itself, which you apparently know about.

The other feature is:

For purposes of command substitution, a command may be an external system command, an internal scripting builtin, or even a script function.

-- the description of which you can find at: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/commandsub.html

The Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide, noted above, is a good document to look over -- it's long, but well-worth your time ... cheers, drl