Re: Function with illegal identifier can be defined, but can't be unset.

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, William Park wrote:

> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: i686
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: gcc
> Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' 
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu' 
> -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/local/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' 
> -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -I.  -I. -I./include -I./lib   -O4 -march=i686
> uname output: Linux node1 2.6.7 #6 SMP Sun Aug 22 23:49:58 EDT 2004 i686 
> unknown unknown GNU/Linux
> Machine Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu
>
> Bash Version: 3.0
> Patch Level: 0
>
> Description:
>
>    Function with illegal identifier (eg. with hyphen or dot) can be
>    defined, as in
>         func-aa () { echo 11; }
>         func.aa () { echo 22; }
>    But, they cannot be removed, as in
>         unset func-aa func.aa           --> ...: not a valid identifier

unset -f func-aa func.aa


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