Jon wrote:
I'm looking for documentation on the legacy ksh88 behavior for
avoiding function/alias expansion.
The new KornShell command and programming language
ISBN 0-13-182700-6
page 141, section "Quoting":
"Quoting is the means for negating the normal processing of many items.
...
* Prevent reserved words from being recognized as reserved words.
...for example "for", \for, ""for, or for"".
* Prevent alias names from being recognized as aliases. ..."
While it doesn't specifically mention functions, I would guess they are
processed similar to reserved words.
scot
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