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Re: Function name conflict with alias in bash-4.3

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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 { :; }
> 
> But you cannot if you don't :
> $ foobar() {:;}
> -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('

unalias foobar
foobar() { ...; }

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Re: Function name conflict with alias in bash-4.3 Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2015-08-25 16:32 -0400

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