Re: coproc command doesn't accept NAME arg

[Chet Ramey]

Jan Schampera wrote:
> Tim Hatch wrote:
> 
>>     Pilot:~/tmp/bash-4.0 tim$ coproc NAME ls
>>     [1] 18474
>>     Pilot:~/tmp/bash-4.0 tim$ ./bash: line 32: NAME: command not found
>>
>>     [1]+  Exit 127                coproc COPROC NAME ls
> 
> For some reason it expects a compound command on named coprocesses,
> 
> http://bash-hackers.org/wiki/doku.php/syntax/keywords/coproc
> 
> MSGID <mailman.4819.1231909794.26697.bug-bash@gnu.org>
> 
> bash(1):
> If NAME is not supplied, the default name is COPROC. NAME must not be
> supplied if command is a simple command (see above); otherwise, it is
> interpreted as the first word of the simple command.
> 
> Yes, it's not intuitive.

It's an ambiguous parse otherwise.

Chet
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