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Is there a way to declare and pass parameters for shell functions, like so ?
function msg( m )
{
read -p "Task #" + m + "done. Press any key to continue
}
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{
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wget $1 > $LOG
baseName=$(basename $1)
tar -xvf $baseName > $LOG
cd $baseName
}
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