Frank Peters <frank.peters@comcast.net> writes:

> Running eselect, a bash script, always fails with the errors:
>
> `ec_do_list-options': not a valid identifier
> `ec_do_list-modules': not a valid identifier
[…]
> But why has not such an obvious mistake been observed before?
>
> Has anyone else executed an unmodified eselect without error?

What version of bash?  You mentioned using bash 4 and downgrading to
"3.2" in the previous thread.   A bit more detail here would be nice.
What use flags for bash, too?

It works fine, here:

jsled@phoenix [~]$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.39(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
jsled@phoenix [~]$ eix -r '^bash$'
[I] app-shells/bash
     Available versions:  3.1_p17 3.2_p39 ~3.2_p48 ~3.2_p48-r1 ~4.0_p10 ~4.0_p10-r1 ~4.0_p17 ~4.0_p17-r1 ~4.0_p24 ~4.0_p28 {afs bashlogger examples net nls plugins vanilla}
     Installed versions:  3.2_p39(03:41:31 AM 05/07/2009)(nls -afs -bashlogger -examples -plugins -vanilla)
     Homepage:            http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/bash/bashtop.html
     Description:         The standard GNU Bourne again shell

jsled@phoenix [~]$ eselect --help
Usage: eselect <global options> <module name> <module options>

Global options:
[…works fine, no errors, &c.…]
jsled@phoenix [~]$

-- 
...jsled
http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo ${a}@${b}