From: dana <dana@dana.is>
To: Tom Boyd <tvboyd23@gmail.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Documentation about Multios is misleading, and perhaps untrue
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 23:05:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8B27B616-9DDE-4A04-AA05-2EA7234051A0@dana.is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAO1rNLg3Y=W8=r6FSOyBLfjcvKmduit6UQGYwrDGKvVEHwOQJg@mail.gmail.com>
On 10 Oct 2018, at 21:33, Tom Boyd <tvboyd23@gmail.com> wrote:
>What should be done about this ?
The patch below documents the error for <file, which is consistent with the
documentation for the other redirection operators.
Not sure if there's really an issue with the rest; i've never assumed from that
description that it means it works *exactly* like cat, just that the effect is
similar in the general case. But i guess the examples could be qualified as
'roughly' equivalent or whatever, idk
dana
diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/redirect.yo b/Doc/Zsh/redirect.yo
index c793638b7..833241574 100644
--- a/Doc/Zsh/redirect.yo
+++ b/Doc/Zsh/redirect.yo
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ separate filename in turn.
startitem()
item(tt(<) var(word))(
Open file var(word) for reading as standard input.
+It is an error to open a file in this fashion if it does not exist.
)
item(tt(<>) var(word))(
Open file var(word) for reading and writing as standard input.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-11 4:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-11 2:33 Tom Boyd
2018-10-11 4:05 ` dana [this message]
2018-10-11 19:12 ` Bart Schaefer
2018-10-11 20:35 ` Daniel Shahaf
2018-10-11 20:59 ` Bart Schaefer
2018-10-12 8:30 ` Peter Stephenson
2018-10-16 0:45 ` Tom Boyd
2018-10-16 2:07 ` Daniel Shahaf
2018-10-16 9:33 ` Peter Stephenson
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