From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 30 20:45:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5E5E16A505 for ; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:45:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com) Received: from dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com (dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com [68.99.120.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EAC913C45A for ; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:45:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com) Received: from dukecmmtao03 ([172.18.22.61]) by dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with SMTP id <20061230204502.HPAH60.dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com@dukecmmtao03> for ; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:45:02 -0500 X-Mailer: Openwave WebEngine, version 2.8.16 (webedge20-101-1106-20040809) From: Vizion Organization: vizion Communications To: Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 12:45:02 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20061230204502.HPAH60.dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com@dukecmmtao03> Subject: Re: Is there reference manual for sh? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:45:03 -0000 > -----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