Re: Can a Bash function be named "w3m" ?
On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 14:10:33 +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> Try prefixing the thing with the builtin `function':
>
> function w3m() ...
That would still leave the alias in place, though. So, both the alias
and the function would be defined. The alias will win out, I believe,
if you actually try to run w3m at that point.
You need to unalias w3m first. That's the real answer here.
Also, just as a tangent, "function" is a bash extension that came from
ksh. In ksh, there are two different ways to define a function:
"foo()" and "function foo". They have different semantics; one is not
a synonym for the other. Combining them, as in "function foo()", is
not allowed.
POSIX sh only defines "foo()".
"function foo()" is therefore purely a bash extension.
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