sh(1) patch

Alfred Perlstein alfred at freebsd.org
Mon Nov 1 15:14:52 UTC 2004


* Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org> [041101 03:29] wrote:
> On 2004-10-30 01:56, Alfred Perlstein <alfred at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > I always find it kind of difficult to find the $foo special operators
> > under the manpage for sh(1) because they are not listed in a way
> > that allows easy search.
> >
> > Would this patch be acceptable?
> 
> > Index: sh.1
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/bin/sh/sh.1,v
> > retrieving revision 1.92
> > diff -u -r1.92 sh.1
> > --- sh.1	3 Jul 2004 02:03:44 -0000	1.92
> > +++ sh.1	30 Oct 2004 08:54:52 -0000
> > @@ -952,7 +952,7 @@
> >  The value of the parameter is listed
> >  next to its character.
> >  .Bl -hang
> > -.It Li *
> > +.It Li $*
> > [snip]
> 
> Hi Alfred,
> 
> The patch is probably ok as an idea, but it's not quite finished if you only
> change the names of the special variables to include `$'.  The paragraph just
> above the changes says:

That looks ok.



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