Re: [Help-bash] Adding missing bash features for safely re-usable bash code

[adrelanos]

Greg Wooledge:
> On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 05:51:01PM +0000, adrelanos wrote:
>> What about
>> functions which are supposed to return different strings depending on
>> if/else?
> 
> If you are using the stdout capturing paradigm, nothing prevents you
> from doing so inside an if statement:

What if I am using echo for communicating with the user (output) and
don't want the echo each internal return value to the user?