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Re: Fwd: Re: interactive shell detection in shrc



On Mon, 30 Sep 2024, Robert Elz wrote:

 | This is _very_ surprising; esp. when /bin/sh doesn't allow chars.
 | like `/' and `.' in the function name.

Huh?

sh $ a.v() echo I have a dot in my name
sh $ a.v
I have a dot in my name


Ah, that's right. It's FreeBSD's /bin/sh (and dash) which doesn't allow it.
(Mixed up my Qemu instances--sorry!)

-RVP


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