Re: `declare -f` incorrectly displays `coproc` statement

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/11/23 9:41 AM, Albert Akchurin wrote:

> Machine Type: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> Bash Version: 5.2 
> Patch Level: 21


> Description:
>
>         `declare -f` wrongly displays the `coproc my_command` statement.

Thanks for the report. I agree that command printing should omit the
coproc name if the command is a simple command. The documentation warns
against using simple commands as coprocs, but the parser doesn't actually
prohibit it, and adding the coproc name there introduces ambiguity.

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