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Op 27-03-18 om 20:23 schreef Larry Hynes:
> Funny, I did wonder if it might be a contraction, but I did find
> it odd that it's not mentioned or explained. I'll leave it be, if
> you all are happy enough to keep it 'as is', or can resubmit if you
> think it's warranted.
I think the simple fact that it came up here is evidence that this is
too jargony for a manual. Patch attached.
- M.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 03:53:26PM +0100, Larry Hynes wrote:
>> src/dash.1, under Command Line Editing, states:
>> It's similar to vi: typing <ESC> will throw you into command
>> VI command mode.
>> - There appears to be no need for both occurrences of 'command'
>> - I can't see a reason for VI to be capitalised
>> - 'will throw you into' seems a little... enthusiastic
>> Following diff changes it to
>> It's similar to vi: typing <ESC> enters vi command mode.
>> diff --git a/src/dash.1 b/src/dash.1
>> index 8b8026d..f35d89d 100644
>> --- a/src/dash.1
>> +++ b/src/dash.1
>> @@ -2232,7 +2232,7 @@ enabled, sh can be switched between insert mode and command mode.
>> The editor is not described in full here, but will be in a later document.
>> It's similar to vi: typing
>> .Aq ESC
>> -will throw you into command VI command mode.
>> +enters vi command mode.
>> Hitting
>> .Aq return
>> while in command mode will pass the line to the shell.
> I agree. If you're changing things here anyway, I suggest getting rid of
> the contraction as well (changing It's to It is). The fairly formal
> style of man pages avoids contractions, just like it avoids "you".
> The reference to the "later document" can probably be removed as well,
> since said document does not exist yet after many years.
Hi
Revised diff, below, expands the contraction, deletes reference to
'later document' and changes 'place' to 'places' in the following:
The command ‘set -o vi’ enables vi-mode editing and place sh
into vi insert mode.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Document that `ulimit` can set the `RLIMIT_AS` limit (virtual memory) with
the `-v` flag.
Fixes: https://bugs.debian.org/78556
Reported-by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
Signed-off-by: Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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The description of getops in the manual incorrectly states that
var will be set to "--" when no arguments remain. In fact it
will be set to "?".
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Close Debian Bug #501566
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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When the manpage states
| <action> may be null, which cause the specified signals to be ignored.
it is not immediately obvious what it means for an action to be
null. Clarify by explicitly referring to an empty string, as
opposed to a NULL pointer or the string "null".
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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I saw a discussion in which there was some confusion over whether or not
you can use a symbolic name, since the manpage doesn't specifically say so.
Signed-off-by: Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 11:11:43AM +0000, Jeroen van Dijke wrote:
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> There seems to be a bug in the dash man page, at least in 0.5.7. It reads:
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> Precision:
> An optional period, `.', followed by an optional digit string giving a precision which specifies the number of digits to appear after the decimal point, for e and f formats, or the maximum number of *characters* to be printed from a string (b and s for-
> mats); if the digit string is missing, the precision is treated as zero;
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> dash behaves cuts to the number of bytes
>
> $ length=10; printf "%.${length}s\n" "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"
> eeeeeeeeee
> $ length=10; printf "%.${length}s\n" "ëëëëëëëëëëëëëëëëëëëëëëëëë”
> ëëëëë
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> The POSIX specification (2008) says:
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> precision Gives the minimum number of digits to appear for the d, o, i, u, x, or X conversion specifiers (the field is padded with leading zeros), the number of digits to appear after the radix character for the e and f conversion specifiers, the maximum number of significant digits for the g conversion specifier; or the maximum number of *bytes* to be written from a string in the s conversion specifier. The precision shall take the form of a ( '.' ) followed by a decimal digit string; a null digit string is treated as zero.
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> So it seems to me that “characters” should be changed to “bytes”.
Indeed and this patch makes that change.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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with Aleksey we briefly discussed the mdoc compatibility of the manpage,
here's a patch that makes mandoc 1.12.1 happier and behaves correctly
against groff 1.21. I want to include it in the staging dash-0.5.7
OpenBSD port.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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This is a small patch to fix the paragraph about 'wait' in the dash manpage.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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I recently found myself in need to have dash support 'ulimit -r' to
set maximum realtime priority. Attached is a patch that adds the
parameter to the builtin ulimit command and updates the manpage.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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From: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon@iki.fi>
LANG=C man dash shows:
PS1 The primary prompt string, which defaults to ``$ '', unless
you are the superuser, in which case it defaults to ``# ''.
PS2 The secondary prompt string, which defaults to ``> ''.
PS4 Output before each line when execution trace (set -x) is
enabled, defaults to ``+ ''.
Each of the documented default values has a graphic character and
two spaces between the quotation marks. However, the actual
default values have only one space, rather than two.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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While inspecting some dash scripts on my system, I was surprised to
see that some of them use an open parenthesis at the beginning of case
patterns while that's not mentioned in the manpage. Dash currently is
fine with and without that parenthesis (parser.c:413). The attached
patch documents this feature.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Rename sh to dash in the header and synopsis; remove reference to the
4.4 BSD release in the description, and replace the history information
with a reference to NetBSD's ash.
Suggested by jaalto through
http://bugs.debian.org/499838
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Sven Mascheck reported that we no longer accept the non-standard
for {} syntax but the manual page still refers to it. This patch
removes that reference.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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In section Redirection the following text misses a left brace:
where redir-op is one of the redirection operators mentioned previously.
Following is a list of the possible redirections. The [n] is an optional
number, as in \u20183\u2019 (not \u2018[3]\u2019, that refers to a file descriptor.
Reported by Jörg Sommer through
http://bugs.debian.org/481365
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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This patch adds support for the -l option (login shell) as required
by the LSB.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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The dash(1) in Debian stable does not support "set +o" in the manner
specified by SUSv3:
|+o
| Write the current option settings to standard output in a format
| that is suitable for reinput to the shell as commands that
| achieve the same options settings.
(citation from
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/set.html)
Instead, dash's "set +o" prints the shell's options in a
human-readable format.
Here is a simple test program that exercises this feature; it works as
I believe is required under bash, but not under dash.
# Save the shell's options
set +o > /tmp/settings-commands
set -o | sort > /tmp/settings-before
# Change some options.
set -v
set -f
set -x
set +o emacs
set -o vi
# Try to restore our options.
. /tmp/settings-commands
set -o | sort > /tmp/settings-after
# Compare.
diff /tmp/settings-before /tmp/settings-after
I believe the following small patch adds this feature to dash, and
documents it in the manual page:
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Document that in a for loop 'in word ...' is optional, and if omitted,
'in "$@"' is used.
Lars Wilke noticed this, and reported through
http://bugs.debian.org/387441
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Have the man page explicitely state how the test builtin behaves on
-nt and -ot options if file2 does not exist. The case where file1
does not exist was already documented properly.
This was noticed by Sven Mueller and reported through
http://bugs.debian.org/373611
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This change updates the BSD licence to the three-clause version since
NetBSD has already done so. This makes dash GPL-compatible.
It also adds Christos Zoulas (NetBSD ash maintainer) to the COPYING file.
I've added "copyright by Herbert Xu" to most files.
Finally all CVS IDs and inclusion of sys/cdefs.h have been removed.
The latter is needed for support of klibc.
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