Chet, Thank you. I'll look at a regex hack-up...
Raph On 20 January 2015 at 15:58, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > On 1/20/15 9:09 AM, Raphael Cohn wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It seems with bash 4.3.30(1)-release (and probably others) that embedded > > functions are output with a leading 'function ' keyword when using > declare > > -f / typeset -f. This is different to all other shells that support > declare > > / typeset that I've tested (pdksh, mksh, Mac OS X ksh, which I think is > AT&T) > > There's no real compatibility here, since typeset isn't part of the Posix > standard. Most shells, including bash, are concerned primarily with being > able to parse their own output. > > There will be a change in the next version of bash that omits the > `function' keyword in posix mode, but that doesn't really help you > if you have to use embedded function definitions now. > > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu > http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ >
