Module Name: src
Committed By: kre
Date: Fri Sep 16 17:32:18 UTC 2022
Modified Files:
src/bin/sh: sh.1
Log Message:
Minor wording improvements.
Note these do not alter anything about what the man page specifies,
just say a couple of things in a slightly better way, hence no Dd
update accompanies this change (deliberately).
To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.247 -r1.248 src/bin/sh/sh.1
Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.
Modified files:
Index: src/bin/sh/sh.1
diff -u src/bin/sh/sh.1:1.247 src/bin/sh/sh.1:1.248
--- src/bin/sh/sh.1:1.247 Fri Sep 16 17:29:21 2022
+++ src/bin/sh/sh.1 Fri Sep 16 17:32:18 2022
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: sh.1,v 1.247 2022/09/16 17:29:21 kre Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: sh.1,v 1.248 2022/09/16 17:32:18 kre Exp $
.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
.\"
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ is correct, as desired, use:
Otherwise if
.Ev ENV
appears to contain a command substitution,
-which is not performed here,
+which is never performed here,
or if there were no expansions to expand, the value of
.Ev ENV
is used as the file name.
@@ -258,8 +258,7 @@ The
.Ic set Fl o
name is provided next to the single letter option in
the description below.
-Some options have only a long name, they are described after
-the flag options, they are used with
+Some options have only a long name, and are used with
.Fl o
or
.Cm +o
@@ -270,7 +269,7 @@ Those are listed in the table below afte
with a one letter, flag, equivalent.
.Pp
Other options described are for the command line only.
-Specifying a dash
+Specifying using a dash (or minus)
.Dq Cm \-
turns the option on, while using a plus
.Dq Cm +
@@ -411,7 +410,8 @@ For more details see the section
.Sx LINENO
below.
.It Fl m Em monitor
-Turn on job control (set automatically at shell startup when interactive).
+Turn on job control (set automatically at shell startup,
+if not mentioned on the command line, when interactive).
.It Fl n Em noexec
Read and parse commands, but do not execute them.
This is useful for checking the syntax of shell scripts.
@@ -1780,7 +1780,7 @@ the two arguments:
Expands to the number of positional parameters.
.It Dv \&?
Expands to the exit status of the most recent pipeline.
-.It Dv \- No (hyphen, or minus)
+.It Dv \- No (dash, hyphen, or minus)
Expands to the current option flags (the single-letter
option names concatenated into a string) as specified on
invocation, by the set built-in command, or implicitly
