bash weirdness

This is just odd. Tell me how this functionality could be useful:

   $ export testf='() { echo test; }'
   $ bash
   $ testf
   test

In ten years I’ve never thought “Boy, I wish I could import shell functions
from my environment upon invocation”, but maybe I’m missing something obvious.

Comments 1

  1. halfjack wrote:

    This may be less a feature than just a side effect of the shell function implementation.

    Posted 03 Jan 2005 at 1:08 pm