Question

I have the following two functions defined in my .bash_functions (which gets sourced into .bashrc):

up() {
  if (($# == 0)); then
    cd ..
  else
    for basename; do
      local result=$(_foo)
      echo $result
      cd $result
    done
  fi
}

_foo() {
  echo ${PWD%/$1/*}/$basename
}

While I can execute _foo, when i execute up, up doesn’t seem to know _foo. Am I doing something wrong here, or is this just not possible?

Answer 1

It does “know” _foo, but you don’t pass a parameter to _foo, so probably that’s causing the confusion.