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| author |   jmc <jmc@openbsd.org> | 2015-03-18 22:09:22 +0000 |
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| committer | jmc <jmc@openbsd.org> | 2015-03-18 22:09:22 +0000 |
| commit | 3b3868be83b0cafffccd0e85e4a3b2e801b65595 (patch) | |
| tree | 3b4381855ffe97b4848dd691a885d7b60daac9e5 | |
| parent | Rework the virtual memory layout on SRMMU systems (sun4d/sun4m) to use a much (diff) | |
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improve the description of here documents; prompted by zhuk
| -rw-r--r-- | bin/ksh/sh.1 | 13 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/bin/ksh/sh.1 b/bin/ksh/sh.1 index 26d6c428101..f23a2dac495 100644 --- a/bin/ksh/sh.1 +++ b/bin/ksh/sh.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: sh.1,v 1.113 2015/03/18 16:20:05 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: sh.1,v 1.114 2015/03/18 22:09:22 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2015 Jason McIntyre <jmc@openbsd.org> .\" @@ -1512,8 +1512,7 @@ create it. This form of redirection, called a .Em here document , -is used to copy the lines from -.Ar block +is used to copy a block of lines to a temporary file until a line matching .Ar delimiter is read. @@ -1524,9 +1523,9 @@ or standard input by default. The basic format is: .Bd -unfilled -offset indent .Oo Ar n Oc Ns << Ns Ar delimiter -.Ar block -.Ar block -.Ar ... +text +text +\&... .Ar delimiter .Ed .Pp @@ -1534,7 +1533,7 @@ Provided .Ar delimiter doesn't contain any quoted characters, parameter, command, and arithmetic expansions are performed on -.Ar block , +the text block, and backslashes escape the special meaning of .Sq $ , .Sq \` , |