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Re: Function name conflict with alias in bash-4.3
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: Function name conflict with alias in bash-4.3 |
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Date: |
Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:32:15 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.4.2.3i |
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 06:36:34PM +0200, Corentin Peuvrel wrote:
> If you have an alias named "foobar", you can create a function with the
> keyword "function" (with or without parenthesis) :
> $ function foobar { :; }
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> But you cannot if you don't :
> $ foobar() {:;}
> -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
unalias foobar
foobar() { ...; }