Re: function def crash

[Phi Debian]

Arghh! I knew it was a pilot error :)

unset PROMPT_COMMAND fix it :)
my PROMPT_COMMAND  reference a function that do 'echo'  and I should use
"command echo" in the echo function not \echo.




On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 10:51 AM Phi Debian <phi.debian@gmail.com> wrote:

> I discovered that
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> $ type -ta word
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> Would tell me what I wanted i.e all the defs of word :)
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> On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 9:48 AM Phi Debian <phi.debian@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi All,
>>
>> Dunno if this is a bug or pilot error, I bumped into this.
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>>
>> $ type echo
>> echo is a shell builtin
>>
>> $ function echo { \echo the function version; \echo "$@"; }
>>
>> After this I got different behavior on 'same' OS version, same BASH
>> version, meaning my environment must interact but can't tell to what extend
>> at the moment.
>>
>> On 2 systems I got bash 'crash', probaly in recursion runaway, during the
>> function definition.
>> On 1 system the definition is OK, then the run for the function crash,
>> again on what's look a recursion run away.
>>
>> I tried this tiny test case on debian 4.19.98-1 (2020-01-26) (little old)
>> and GNU bash, version 5.0.3(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu) (little old too)
>> and I got the definition crash behavior.
>>
>> I bumped into this as I tried to implement something that would tell me
>> all the 'command' definition of a word0 of a shell command, so having the
>> same identifier for a program basename, an alias and a function, I wanted
>> to make something (a function?) that would tell me
>>
>> $ word0 echo
>> echo is an alias
>> echo is a function
>> echo is a program (a.out...)
>>
>>
>> I choosed randomly 'echo' as a test case, I could have used ls, etc....
>> only echo seems to choke.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Phi
>>
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