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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 10:52:49 -0600
From: Eric S Pulley <pulley@dabus.com>
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Subject: Re: sh man page ....
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> 
> Well !!!! The sh man page is mute on the fact that an empty string is
> an error in arithmetic or logical evaluations, which is an omission 
> irrespective of what bash does :-). I presume that converting Linux 
> users to FBSD users is an agenda item here (maybe my error), thus 
> suitably complete man pages should be an important goal, I would
> think. I didn't think converting from Linux to FBSD was/is a bad
> habit ;-) ....
> 
> 
I'm confused, can you ever do arithmetic or logical evaluations on an
empty string?... Why have an entry stating the obvious? If all man
pages did is state the obvious there wouldn't be room for the important
stuff. And then even less people would bother to read them.