Re: declare -F incorrect line number

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/5/22 6:29 PM, Robert Elz wrote:
>      Date:        Wed, 5 Oct 2022 15:36:55 -0400
>      From:        Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
>      Message-ID:  <3d89acac-4c0a-64c9-e22c-1a3ca68600d1@case.edu>
>
>    | Other than that, there's no advantage.
>
> There can be.   I have, on occasion (not in bash - I don't
> write bash scripts) had a need to redefine one of the standard
> commands, while executing a particular function (which calls other
> more standard functions which run the command) - and define the
> same command differently when running a different function, which
> runs the same standard functions running the command, but in a
> different way.

Sure, that's the conditional definition I talked about in my first reply.
The OP indicated that that wasn't his goal.

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