[BusyBox] Forbidden characters in shell function names?

[Mike Frysinger]

On Sunday 02 January 2005 08:34 pm, Mike Castle wrote:
> Except that it actually works:

default bash behavior is to not be POSIX anal

$ a.b=f
bash: a.b=f: command not found
$ a.b() { echo blah; }
$ a.b
blah

$ export POSIXLY_CORRECT=yes
$ a.b=f
bash: a.b=f: command not found
$ a.b() { echo blah ; }
bash: `a.b': not a valid identifier
-mike