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Re: Valid characters for function names


From: Greg Wooledge
Subject: Re: Valid characters for function names
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 11:31:47 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13)

On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 11:14:38AM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> This is a reasonable addition, with the caveat that `fname' is virtually
> unlimited. It can't contain any quoted characters, or contain NUL (like any
> bash string) or `$' (and that is dubious). You can even define a function
> whose name contains a slash -- you'll just never be able to call it.

wooledg:~$ bash
wooledg:~$ function /bin/ls { echo haha; }
wooledg:~$ /bin/ls
haha



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