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Re: Fwd: Re: interactive shell detection in shrc



> But in general, no, there's probably not a lot of use for it, but nor
> is there any particular reason to add special case code to prohibit
> it.

I was thinking, most languages have names for functions and such, but
sh is one of the few languages in which a zero-length routine name is
even representible, so it's not surprising that most languages don't
have them.

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