On 1/20/19 10:46 AM, Andrey Butirsky wrote: > `1' is not a valid identifier, still: > $ function 1 () { :; } > bash: `1': not a valid identifier > > So that is pretty messy..
In posix mode, bash restricts function names to be valid shell identifiers, as the standard specifies. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/