On 8/12/20 10:51 AM, Matthew Persico wrote: > I put a bug report into an emacs group because the bash syntax highlighter > failed to recognize functions whose names have dashes in them. > > The maintainer came back with this: > > I can reproduce this behaviour, but is it really a bug? Aren't the > names with '-' invalid? > The Bash Reference Manual says: > name > A word consisting solely of letters, numbers, and underscores, and > beginning with a letter or underscore. Names are used as shell > variable and function names. Also referred to as an identifier. > https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/bash/manual/bash.html > > I looked at the manual and I didn't see positive or negative > acknowledgement that dashes can be used in function names. But it does work. > > Update to manual?
The bash-20191127 snapshot updated the manpage documentation for a function definition (to align with reality). It is now defined as: function fname [()] compound-command [redirection] and includes the description: When in posix mode, fname must be a valid shell name and may not be the name of one of the POSIX special builtins. In default mode, a function name can be any unquoted shell word that does not contain $. For context: word - A sequence of characters considered as a single unit by the shell. Also known as a token. name - A word consisting only of alphanumeric characters and underscores, and beginning with an alphabetic character or an underscore. Also referred to as an identifier. > name > A word consisting solely of letters, numbers, and underscores, and > beginning with a letter or underscore. Names are used as shell > variables. Also referred to as an identifier. > > function name > A word consisting solely of letters, numbers, underscores, dashes, and > beginning with a letter or underscore. Function names are used to label > shell > functions. > -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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