Poor Yorick wrote:
ksh refuses to define functions which contain a dash ("-") in the name. The Bash manual also defines 'name' as consisting solely of letters, numbers, and underscores. So shouldn't bash refuse to create functions which contain a dash in the name?
When in posix mode, bash does so refuse. In default (non-posix) mode, it is more liberal. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/