Re: set function and special builtin set

[Andreas Schwab]

Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net> writes:

> Clive Nicolson wrote:
>> Is it posible to get a user function named set to be called in
>> place of the special builtin set?
>>
>> ie
>>
>> set() { echo "My set $@" ;}
>>
>> set params
>
> You haven't tried this?
>
> $ set() { echo "My set $@" ;}
> $ set params
> My set params
>
> It just works.

It's not supposed to.  See
<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_09_01_01>:

    If a simple command results in a command name and an optional list
    of arguments, the following actions shall be performed:
      1. If the command name does not contain any slashes, the first
      successful step in the following sequence shall occur:
            a. If the command name matches the name of a special
            built-in utility, that special built-in utility shall be
            invoked.

(And set is a special built-in.)

Andreas.

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