Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 12:45:02 -0800 From: Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is there reference manual for sh? Message-ID: <20061230204502.HPAH60.dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com@dukecmmtao03>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of a@zeos.net > Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 10:22 AM > To: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Is there reference manual for sh? > > > On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 10:16:20AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > > > > a@zeos.net writes: > > > > > I need a reference manual or specification for sh. > > > Where can I find it? > > > > In you mean within FreeBSD, try: > > > > man sh > > > > or > > > > man builtin, > > > > As a user, the O'Reilly _UNIX in a Nutshell_ I bought many > > years ago was a very wise investment. > > If you want to hack the code ... the start with the code. And > > good luck. > > > > > > Robert Huff > > I need any online complete manual on sh, not a brief as it is man sh. > The last one doesn't describe many features both interactive > (command line > editing, using history interactively, and many others) > and scripting (for example, conditional expressions). > I would really recomend then O'reilly "Learning the Bash Shell".. esentially bash is backward compatible with sg (Bourne shell) and there is not really an online resource that I ever found to be as useful as this book My 2 cents worth david
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