> I see this in bash(1):
>
> SHELL GRAMMAR
> ...
> Shell Function Definitions
> ...
> [ function ] name () compound-command [redirection]
>
> and do not see the version you show without the parens.
Read the text following the definition. It says, in part:
If the function reserved word is supplied, the
parentheses are optional.
Chet
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``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
