Call procedure file (CALL)

The command runs commands from the file. Procedure files should not contain quit statements (q), since this will terminate the OShell program;

Parameters:

• file_name - complete path to the file containing the instructions. When no file name is passed, the procedure must be defined in the current command file or has to be loaded explicitly (LOAD)

• entry_point - when an entry point is appended to the file name the procedure is not processed from the beginning but from the entry point, which must be a defined entry point in the procedure.

• parameter - Any number of parameters may be passed to the procedure called. The receiving procedure may refer to parameters by %1, %2 etc.

When calling a procedure file name with an entry point like

CALL myprocs.osh@start

the entry point name must precede the file name without space. The entry point must be defined in the file on a single line preceded by @, in this case @start. In order to return from the procedure, return has to be called. Otherwise, the procedure returns after last line in the command file.