Re: Valid characters for function names

[Eli Schwartz]

On 11/25/19 9:41 AM, Reuti wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I got a script using foo++() as function name, and at first I was
> confused of a different behavior between bash 4.2, 4.4 and 5.0. After
> crawling some mailing lists whether this is allowed at all [...]

You can do some fun stuff with function names, which seems fair since
you can also do fun stuff with disk filenames in /usr/bin

☁() { curl -k "https://wttr.in/$*";; }; ☁

alias 🗑=rm; 🗑 --help

function _[ () { echo hello; }; "_["

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Eli Schwartz
Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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