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Manual page for tdhfunction(1)(TDH)

tdhfunction(1) - execute a TDH function and write result to standard output



SYNOPSIS

tdhfunction functioncall


DESCRIPTION

Execute a TDH function and write result to standard output. This allows the TDH functions to be used from within shell scripts, etc.

Trailing newline is NOT added. functioncall is the function name with parentheses and arguments, but without the leading dollar sign ($) on the function name, as seen in the examples below.




EXAMPLES

These examples assume /bin/sh:

TMPFILE=`tdhfunction "uniquename()" `

TMPFILE=`tdhfunction "time()" `





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