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Re: Officially document that we allow other characters in function names
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Officially document that we allow other characters in function names |
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Mon, 27 Jun 2016 17:04:32 -0400 |
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On 6/27/16 1:56 PM, konsolebox wrote:
>> Chet is one of these people ;)
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-04/msg00040.html
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> Well it wasn't a mistake for me. At least I find the characters '.'
> and '?' (and maybe '!' as well) helpful.
You just have to be careful that `?' doesn't conflict with globbing
and `!' with history expansion.
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``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/