Re: function def crash

[Phi Debian]

I discovered that

$ type -ta word

Would tell me what I wanted i.e all the defs of word :)



On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 9:48 AM Phi Debian <phi.debian@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Dunno if this is a bug or pilot error, I bumped into this.
>
>
> $ type echo
> echo is a shell builtin
>
> $ function echo { \echo the function version; \echo "$@"; }
>
> After this I got different behavior on 'same' OS version, same BASH
> version, meaning my environment must interact but can't tell to what extend
> at the moment.
>
> On 2 systems I got bash 'crash', probaly in recursion runaway, during the
> function definition.
> On 1 system the definition is OK, then the run for the function crash,
> again on what's look a recursion run away.
>
> I tried this tiny test case on debian 4.19.98-1 (2020-01-26) (little old)
> and GNU bash, version 5.0.3(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu) (little old too)
> and I got the definition crash behavior.
>
> I bumped into this as I tried to implement something that would tell me
> all the 'command' definition of a word0 of a shell command, so having the
> same identifier for a program basename, an alias and a function, I wanted
> to make something (a function?) that would tell me
>
> $ word0 echo
> echo is an alias
> echo is a function
> echo is a program (a.out...)
>
>
> I choosed randomly 'echo' as a test case, I could have used ls, etc....
> only echo seems to choke.
>
> Cheers,
> Phi
>