Unfortunately that kills the utility of the prefix :(

On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 8:36 PM Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/27/22, Zach Riggle <zachriggle@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It seems that it's completely valid to declare a function with a leading
> > percent, but it's not able to be called due to be interpreted as job
> > control.
> >
> >     $ %paste() { echo hi }
> >
> >     $ declare -f '%paste'
> >     %paste () {
> >         echo hi
> >     }
> >
> >     $ %paste
> >     fg: job not found: paste
> >
> > Is there any way around this behavior?  I've found that this can be
> worked
> > around with aliases...
> >
> > alias '%p=%paste'
> >
> >
> > But I expect there are other / better ways.
>
> \%paste
>
> --
> Mikael Magnusson
>
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*Zach Riggle*