On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 06:26:43PM +0300, Andrey Butirsky wrote: > Andreas, I know it will work with the '-f' flag. > But for others function names, the '-f' unset flag is not required. > Moreover, it seem confronts with Open Group Base Specification. > So I consider it as a bug still. >
It is intentional. If you want bash to run in POSIX mode, you should use the `POSIXLY_CORRECT' variable or the `--posix' flag. | dualbus@system76-pc:~$ POSIXLY_CORRECT=y bash -c 'function 1a() { :; }' | bash: `1a': not a valid identifier And as Andreas mentioned, in general you should use `unset -f' if you want to operate on functions. Otherwise you risk conflict with a variable name.