Function List with Bash scripts not fully populating

Michael Bedell

So I’m working on a bash script that has right now 252 functions, but only 45 populate in the function list. This has only recently started to happen. In earlier releases I did not have this issue. Can anyone offer assistance please?

Michael Vincent

@Michael-Bedell

I’ve seen this before and I think it had to do with function definition followed by comment and the function list parser.

If my Bash functions look like:

#!/bin/bash

hello_world () {
    echo 'hello, world'
}

goodbye_world () {
    echo 'goodbye, world'
}

hello_world
goodbye_world

I see both hello_world and goodbye_world in the function list. However, add a comment directly after:

#!/bin/bash

hello_world () {
    echo 'hello, world'
}

goodbye_world () {
    # goodbye from function list
    echo 'goodbye, world'
}

hello_world
goodbye_world

and now I only see hello_world in the function list. Put a blank line between goodbye_world () { and the comment:

goodbye_world () {

    # I'M BACK!!!
    echo 'goodbye, world'
}

And we’re back in the function list. Maybe your missing functions have comments directly after the definition?

Hope this helps.

Cheers.

Michael Bedell

So working from what you were saying I had to look further. I could add just a blank function

function test {
}

and it would show up no problem, until I tried to do it below the last function that showed up in the function list.

So I started commenting out sections and then eventually lines till I found the offender.

I originally had a line that said:

echo set superusers=\"root\" >> /etc/grub.d/40_custom

which worked fine and entered the text as I expected in the file.

BUT it messed with the function identifiers apparently and it wasn’t until I switched it to say:

echo "set superusers=\"root\"" >> /etc/grub.d/40_custom

that is began to work. So TYVM for your input as it helped me figure out what was causing at least the issue in the function list. Shouldn’t have made a difference, but either way I can now easily see all the functions again!

MAPJe71

No problem here, all mentioned functions are displayed in the Function List.
Makes me wonder which parser and N++ version you are using.