From: Brantley Coile <brantley@coraid.com>
To: "chet.ramey@case.edu" <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] sh: cmd | >file
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 15:42:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E33BA0-C482-4A95-BF2B-2107C661D76B@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3958ec66-c5c0-e1bc-1476-2195907816b3@case.edu>
Seems the man page for bash is longer than Steve's original source:
ehg% pwd
/sys/editions/unix/7e/usr/src/cmd/sh
ehg% wc -l *.[ch] | tail -1
4111 total
> On Jan 6, 2020, at 8:53 AM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
>
> On 1/5/20 4:21 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>> On Sat, 4 Jan 2020, Chet Ramey wrote:
>>>> Which reminds me: which Shell introduced "#" as a true comment?
>>>
>>> Define "true comment." The v7 shell had `#' as the comment character, but
>>> it only worked when in non-interactive shells. I think it was the Sys III
>>> shell that made it work when the shell was interactive.
>> Yes, that's what I meant.
>
> It was the Sys III shell; I have a v7 shell that's apparently not the
> original.
>
>
>> I never did catch up with all the options on the various shells; I just
>> stick with the defaults in general. Eg:
>> aneurin% man bash | wc -l
>> 5947
>
> $ wc -l doc/bash.0
> 6206 doc/bash.0
>
> I still get reports that things are not documented in sufficient detail.
>
>
> --
> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
> ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-06 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-04 2:58 Doug McIlroy
2020-01-04 10:07 ` markus schnalke
2020-01-04 11:47 ` Robert Clausecker
2020-01-04 22:31 ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-04 21:02 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-04 21:06 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-05 0:03 ` Eric Allman
2020-01-05 1:49 ` Adam Thornton
2020-01-05 2:44 ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-05 8:15 ` Brantley Coile
2020-01-05 15:16 ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-04 21:11 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-04 21:39 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-04 22:19 ` Terry Jones
2020-01-04 22:33 ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-04 23:53 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-05 0:04 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2020-01-05 2:41 ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-05 13:45 ` Sven Mascheck via TUHS
2020-01-05 15:18 ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-05 21:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-06 13:53 ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-06 15:42 ` Brantley Coile [this message]
2020-01-06 15:46 ` arnold
2020-01-06 16:13 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-06 20:44 ` arnold
2020-01-06 20:51 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-01-06 21:32 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-06 21:39 ` Brad Spencer
2020-01-06 21:29 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-06 21:55 ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-06 22:22 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-06 22:52 ` Dan Cross
2020-01-07 0:50 ` Adam Thornton
2020-01-06 22:10 ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-04 22:44 ` markus schnalke
2020-01-04 23:01 ` Terry Jones
2020-01-04 22:22 ` Dave Horsfall
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-01-07 5:03 Brian Walden
2020-01-07 4:49 Brian Walden
2020-01-06 19:47 Doug McIlroy
2020-01-06 16:11 Brian Walden
2020-01-06 16:33 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-06 3:24 Brian Walden
2020-01-06 15:42 ` Richard Salz
2020-01-06 15:45 ` Brantley Coile
2020-01-03 12:45 markus schnalke
2020-01-03 14:00 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-01-03 17:03 ` Brian Zick
2020-01-03 17:18 ` markus schnalke
2020-01-04 0:53 ` Sven Mascheck via TUHS
2020-01-04 20:41 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-01-03 19:38 ` markus schnalke
2020-01-03 19:44 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-03 22:49 ` Michael Parson
2020-01-03 23:32 ` Dave Horsfall
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