On Jun 11 2025, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> Bash 5.3
>> interprets the bare <( and >( as an introducer of process
>> substitutions, and the defined function has the source code of the
>> parsed process substitution.
>> $ bash-devel -c '<(echo hello) () { echo hello; }; declare -F'
>> declare -f <(echo hello)
>
> That's the function name. In general, a function name is a WORD that
> does not undergo any word expansions, not even quote removal.
Without quote removal, a lot of WORDs that can be command names (which
undergo quote removal) cannot be used as function names.
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