On 7/31/23 12:59 PM, Wiley Young wrote:
Hi,
Regarding the "Invoking Bash" page,
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Invoking-Bash.html
Thanks for the report.
It might be more consistent and therefore perhaps more clear for all of the
newbies out there if the description of "--restricted" also began with
"Equivalent to -r," as the very next description does.
"--restricted
This is reasonable.
Also, a few lines later, there's the phrase, "There are several
single-character options that may be supplied at invocation which are not
available with the set builtin."
Within that list there's the item,
"-r
Make the shell a restricted shell (see The Restricted Shell
<https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Restricted-Shell.html>
)."
However, restricted mode is listed on the "Set Builtin" page:
Yes, I keep meaning to take it out of the set builtin; no one else,
including POSIX, has it there, and it doesn't really make much sense.
But the restricted shell is so little-used I never get around to it.
Chet
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