Help - Getting lots of errors from functions and scripts

[Dennis Wicks <wix@mgssub.com>]

Greetings;

When I run anything that is actually a shell script starting 
with #!/bin/sh and maybe any thing that uses a shell 
function I get five or six screens full of messages that 
look like the following and all start with /bin/sh

	/bin/sh: _openssl: line 25: syntax error near
		`unexpected token `('
	/bin/sh: _openssl: line 25: ` -@(in|out|oid))'
	/bin/sh: error importing function definition for
		`_openssl'
	/bin/sh: _service: line 4: syntax error in
		conditional expression: unexpected token `('
	/bin/sh: _service: line 4: syntax error near `@(*'
	/bin/sh: _service: line 4: ` [[ ${COMP_WORDS[0]} != 	 
@(*init.d/!(functions|~)|service) ]] && return 0;'

One example is  /usr/bin/bashbug

but all scripts that start with  #!/bin/sh
seem to have the problem.

One function that has the problem is one I wrote that does 
an ls and pipes it to less. As follows;

	function lm ()
		{
    		ls -laNF "$@" | $(which less)
    		}


Anybody have any idea about what is causing these errors
or where to look?

Many TIA!
Dennis