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Date:      Sun, 21 Sep 2014 20:34:54 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r271936 - head/bin/sh
Message-ID:  <201409212034.s8LKYs8k092244@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: jilles
Date: Sun Sep 21 20:34:54 2014
New Revision: 271936
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/271936

Log:
  sh(1): Clarify that assignments before commands do not affect expansions.
  
  PR:		193759
  MFC after:	1 week

Modified:
  head/bin/sh/sh.1

Modified: head/bin/sh/sh.1
==============================================================================
--- head/bin/sh/sh.1	Sun Sep 21 19:34:28 2014	(r271935)
+++ head/bin/sh/sh.1	Sun Sep 21 20:34:54 2014	(r271936)
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 .\"	from: @(#)sh.1	8.6 (Berkeley) 5/4/95
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd September 4, 2014
+.Dd September 21, 2014
 .Dt SH 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -590,7 +590,8 @@ the following actions:
 Leading words of the form
 .Dq Li name=value
 are stripped off and assigned to the environment of
-the simple command.
+the simple command
+(they do not affect expansions).
 Redirection operators and
 their arguments (as described below) are stripped
 off and saved for processing.



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