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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] acceptable bourne shell function names

On 27/06/09 Stephen Gregory said:

> Is your .xsession an executable? e.g. chmod u+x .xsession.

It's executable. Regardless, the issue would seem to be a posix shell vs. bash
thing.

msoulier@kostya:/home/msoulier$ cat try.sh 
#!/bin/sh

hello-there()
{
    echo "hello"
}

hello-there
msoulier@kostya:/home/msoulier$ sh try.sh 
try.sh: 3: Syntax error: Bad function name
msoulier@kostya:/home/msoulier$ bash try.sh 
hello

Mike
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