Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:22:09 -0600 From: Lane <lane@joeandlane.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there reference manual for sh? Message-ID: <200612301822.09750.lane@joeandlane.com> In-Reply-To: <20061230182206.GA5557@host.my.domain> References: <20061230150403.GA4674@host.my.domain> <17814.33476.413912.221142@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20061230182206.GA5557@host.my.domain>
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On Saturday 30 December 2006 12:22, a@zeos.net wrote: > 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). Here's a "brute-force" manual: #!/bin/sh for each in `find /etc/rc.d` do more $each done If you need more than what is there then you probably need Kernigan and Ritchie's The "C" Programming Language, (still) available on amazon.com. lane
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