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Re: Shell Grammar man page function definition
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Shell Grammar man page function definition |
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Sun, 28 Feb 2021 17:06:37 -0500 |
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On 2/28/21 12:38 PM, Mike Jonkmans wrote:
The manual page says:
If the function reserved word is used, but the parentheses are not
supplied,
the braces are required.
That text has been there since the earliest versions of the man page. It's
not strictly true any more, but it's a reasonable guideline. Maybe I'll
change the language to a recommendation.
But it seems that from all the compound commands,
only a subshell is not possible.
Subshells work fine in the current version of bash.
--
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/