On Tuesday, 4 January at 14:24, Bob Proulx via Dng wrote:
> (...)
>Portable shell use would be "whatever() {" which I wish to encourage
>by saying that here. Please use only that form for /bin/sh scripts. :-)
>
>The "function" keyword was introduced by ksh. This syntax is also
>supported by bash and zsh but not by other shells. When "function" is
>used then the #! line must be /bin/ksh, /bin/bash, or /bin/zsh.

Well, learn something new every day...
Thank you for that little nugget.

- Antoine

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