In BASH, is it possible to get the function name in function body? Taking following codes as example, I want to print the function name "Test" in its body, but "$0" seems to refer to the script name instead of the function name. So how to get the function name?
#!/bin/bash function Test { if [ $# -lt 1 ] then # how to get the function name here? echo "$0 num" 1>&2 exit 1 fi local num="${1}" echo "${num}" } # the correct function Test 100 # missing argument, the function should exit with error Test exit 0
Yes, it's called function overloading. Multiple functions are able to have the same name if you like, however MUST have different parameters.
In a strongly typed language, the parser can (in principle) make the difference between functions with the same name but a different argument list (number and type of the arguments), at function-declaration time as well as function-call time. This is called function overloading and also applies to class methods.
Define a function named "myFunction", and make it display "Hello World!" in the <p> element. Hint. Hint: Use the function keyword to define the function (followed by a name, followed by parentheses). Place the code you want executed by the function, inside curly brackets. Then, call the function.
Try ${FUNCNAME[0]}
. This array contains the current call stack. To quote the man page:
FUNCNAME An array variable containing the names of all shell functions currently in the execution call stack. The element with index 0 is the name of any currently-executing shell function. The bot‐ tom-most element is "main". This variable exists only when a shell function is executing. Assignments to FUNCNAME have no effect and return an error status. If FUNCNAME is unset, it loses its special properties, even if it is subsequently reset.
The name of the function is in ${FUNCNAME[ 0 ]}
FUNCNAME is an array containing all the names of the functions in the call stack, so:
$ ./sample foo bar $ cat sample #!/bin/bash foo() { echo ${FUNCNAME[ 0 ]} # prints 'foo' echo ${FUNCNAME[ 1 ]} # prints 'bar' } bar() { foo; } bar
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