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Bug 53804

Summary: bash loses export shell functions when added in the .bash_profile script.
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Keith Ansell <keitha>
Component: bashAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Description Keith Ansell 2001-09-19 09:14:35 UTC
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Description of problem:
function echo() { /bin/echo -e "$*"; }
export -f echo

The above function  when added to a .bash_profile script is not exported and therefore available to the user shell.

vi tpm 
echo "prompt :\c"
read data
the following script display the "\c" and the cursor is displayed on the next line.
sh tmp
prompt :\c

script should look this with the cursor on the same line.
prompt :
 

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How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.add the function to .bash_profile
2.login as user
3.sh ./tpm
	

Actual Results:  prompt :\c

Expected Results:  prompt :

Additional info:

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2002-10-11 11:03:02 UTC
I can't reproduce this on Red Hat Linux 8.0.