Bug 688253

Summary: Embedded Commnad "unset" fails to unset function which name comprises '-'
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Dimitar Yordanov <dyordano>
Component: bashAssignee: Roman Rakus <rrakus>
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Version: 6.1CC: prc, tsmetana
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Description Dimitar Yordanov 2011-03-16 16:39:37 UTC
Description of problem:
Embedded Commnad "unset" fails to  unset function which name comprises '-'

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
bash-4.1.2-8.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.function a(){
echo a
}

2.unset a

3.function a-a(){
echo "a-a"
}

4.#unset a-a

Actual results:
-bash: unset: `a-a': not a valid identifier


Expected results:
Success.

Additional info:

Comment 2 Roman Rakus 2011-03-16 17:18:13 UTC
You can use `unset -f'.

Comment 3 Roman Rakus 2011-03-16 17:24:21 UTC
You can see discussion upstream http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-bash@gnu.org/msg03329.html
Mainly the answer from upstream maintainer http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-bash@gnu.org/msg03334.html

Closing as not a bug