On 6/24/24 2:37 PM, Oğuz wrote:
You can do these$ %f(){ :;} $ declare -f %f %f () { : } $ unset -f %f $ declare -f %f $ echo $? 1 but not call them $ %f bash: fg: %f: no such job $ '%f' bash: fg: %f: no such job $ \%f bash: fg: %f: no such job Why is that?
Think of it as a built-in alias that is expanded before functions are invoked.
Would it be a bad idea to let such functions take precedence over jobspecs?
At this point? Yes.
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