Re: missing goto

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Albert Cahalan wrote:

> Old shells had a working goto. Back in the day,
> it was an external command that did an lseek.
> I think it would better be done as a built-in.

   Or a function?

goto()
{
   sed -n "/^: *$1/,$ p" $0 | tail +2 | $SHELL
}

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