hmm, maybe I shouldn't be doing all these things in Bash

but I am

oh well

thing I want: closures in bash
things bash does not have: closures

realisation: i shouldn't want closures in bash

but now I have to rewrite this thing

@aurynn is a subshell enough like a closure?

@fincham I need to have function names get restored on exit of the subshell, will that happen?

@aurynn I’m not sure what you mean, do you mean like have the subshell not clobber functions from the calling shell?

@fincham yeah

@aurynn that should be what happens automatically

@fincham ah cool. How do I trigger a full subshell?

@aurynn just parentheses. If you don’t know of it yet Greg’s Wiki is the best bash thing: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/SubShell

@fincham cheers 🙂