Re: 5.3: Why is <(cmd) allowed in func names of func defs?

2025年6月4日(水) 0:57 Koichi Murase : > [...]. If it was > implemented after Ref. [1], « '<(echo hello)' () { echo hello; } » > should have been supported but not « <(echo hello) () { echo hello; > }.». I realized that « '<(echo hello)' () { ...; } » is actually supported in Bash 5.3, but the behavior

Re: 5.3: Why is <(cmd) allowed in func names of func defs?

Date:Wed, 4 Jun 2025 00:57:15 +0900 From:Koichi Murase Message-ID: | > xx. <( and >( can now be used in function names. | | What is the background of this change? I think I agree with the point here -- while I strongly believe that almost anything should be p

'\a' and '\r' escape sequence in internationalized messages

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5.3: Why is <(cmd) allowed in func names of func defs?

> xx. <( and >( can now be used in function names. What is the background of this change? This was added in commit 315095ad, and to the best of my knowledge, an email on the mailing list in the same period and related to this change would be Ref. [1] from kre. [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/ht

Bash-5.3-rc2 available

The second release candidate of bash-5.3 is now available with the URLs ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-5.3-rc2.tar.gz https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-5.3-rc2.tar.gz and from the bash-5.3-testing branch in the bash git repository (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/log/?h=bash-5.3-t

Questions on the behavior of CTLR+C and trap when job control is enabled/disabled

Hello all, I'm using Bash 5.2 on macOS: - bash-5.2$ bash -version GNU bash, version 5.2.37(1)-release (aarch64-apple-darwin23.4.0) Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later - I reached out to #bash on Li