function: not found error on solaris

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

shell script in very simple,

#!/bin/sh
function msgs
{
        echo 'this'
}
msgs

It works on linux, apple, but can not run on solaris. On solaris, when I enter "./t.sh", it gave me following error,

./t.sh: function: not found
this
./t.sh: msgs: not found

What's wrong with this simple script on solaris? Can anybody tell me? Thanks.

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3

Looking at the Solaris man page for Bourne shell (sh) I cannot see function, what I do see is this form for defining a function:

Msg() {
	echo "$*"
}

I would usually script using Korn shell (ksh) the manpage for which does show the use of "function" to define a function.

4

I see. Thank you very much.