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    BTW: This feature was always in conflict with the POSIX standard. Commented Sep 30, 2015 at 19:25
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    I recently made the export, unexport and unset builtins from the Bourne Shell POSIX compliant and somewhere in these builtins is the explanation, I believe in export. Commented Sep 30, 2015 at 19:41
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    @cuonglm Is there a man page that describes how to use functions in bash ? Commented Oct 1, 2015 at 3:01
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    @Jake - man bash. when you get it open, press the / key and use a regex like ^[[:space:]]*Func to find a line that starts with that phrase. Press n to skip through matches to your search. and judging by your question, you might want to have a look at alias as well. Commented Oct 1, 2015 at 3:11
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    @Jake: The semicolon is just a terminator, used to separated shell token, here's the command and the }. bash documentation have a details part about functions. Commented Oct 1, 2015 at 3:12