Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!171.64.64.130.MISMATCH!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Chet Ramey Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: Function definitions Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 09:20:55 -0500 Lines: 31 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <877er0qbb7.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: chet.ramey@case.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1519654866 31396 208.118.235.17 (26 Feb 2018 14:21:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: chet.ramey@case.edu To: moosotc@gmail.com, bug-bash@gnu.org Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 In-Reply-To: <877er0qbb7.fsf@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-US X-Junkmail-Status: score=8/60, host=mpv4-2015.case.edu X-Junkmail-PrAS-Raw: score=8/60, refid=2.7.2:2018.2.26.132716:17:8.317, ip=, rules=__HAS_REPLYTO, __HAS_CC_HDR, LEO_OBFU_SUBJ_RE, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT, __TO_MALFORMED_2, __TO_NO_NAME, __REFERENCES, __HAS_FROM, FROM_EDU_TLD, __HAS_MSGID, __SANE_MSGID, DATE_TZ_NA, __USER_AGENT, __MOZILLA_USER_AGENT, __MIME_VERSION, __IN_REP_TO, __CT, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN, __CTE, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_ADDY, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_ACC, __FROM_DOMAIN_IN_ANY_CC1, __FROM_DOMAIN_IN_ANY_CC2, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_DOMAIN, __ANY_URI, __URI_WITH_PATH, __FRAUD_BODY_WEBMAIL, __URI_NO_WWW, __CP_URI_IN_BODY, __FRAUD_MONEY_CURRENCY_DOLLAR, __SUBJ_ALPHA_NEGATE, __URI_IN_BODY, __URI_NOT_IMG, __FORWARDED_MSG, __NO_HTML_TAG_RAW, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS, BODY_SIZE_800_899, __MIME_TEXT_P1, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY, __URI_NS, HTML_00_01, HTML_00_10, __FRAUD_MONEY_CURRENCY, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS, __FRAUD_WEBMAIL, IN_REP_TO, MSG_THREAD, __FROM_DOMAIN_IN_RCPT, [TRUNCATED], so=2010-03-03 19:42:08, dmn=2016-08-03-0138 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 129.22.103.195 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:13749 On 2/26/18 5:45 AM, moosotc@gmail.com wrote: > Bash Version: 4.4 > Patch Level: 19 > Release Status: release > > Description: > Bash rejects valid function definitions > > Repeat-By: > > $ func() true > bash: syntax error near unexpected token `true' Yes, bash requires that function bodies be compound commands, as the Posix grammar specifies. > # Variant#2 > $ func() { true } >> ^C This is not a valid compound command. To be recognized as a reserved word, and end the group command, the close brace must appear in a context where a reserved word is valid. The argument to a simple command is not such a place. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/