Thomas Dickey dixit: >The example is correct, however. xterm's manpage isn't a tutorial >on shell programming.
Yes and yes, but it’s still over-microoptimised, in a way that is not helpful to users. bye, //mirabilos -- FWIW, I'm quite impressed with mksh interactively. I thought it was much *much* more bare bones. But it turns out it beats the living hell out of ksh93 in that respect. I'd even consider it for my daily use if I hadn't wasted half my life on my zsh setup. :-) -- Frank Terbeck in #!/bin/mksh