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authormmcc <mmcc@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-11-22 01:29:58 +0000
committermmcc <mmcc@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-11-22 01:29:58 +0000
commit7f6a3622ac4f6c4370c55aa690fa98cffbb039d8 (patch)
tree1254215910304a37efce93ef894b2ab7361c4e72
parent9f3b7a66770057360dd24b388c96a84536056a8c (diff)
This man page uses "Note that" profusely, which is generally considered
bad writing style. Also, add a paragraph break and split up a megasentence.
-rw-r--r--bin/ksh/ksh.115
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/bin/ksh/ksh.1 b/bin/ksh/ksh.1
index 2960b90c75e..b178ab53152 100644
--- a/bin/ksh/ksh.1
+++ b/bin/ksh/ksh.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ksh.1,v 1.169 2015/11/22 01:23:39 mmcc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ksh.1,v 1.170 2015/11/22 01:29:57 mmcc Exp $
.\"
.\" Public Domain
.\"
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ or in groups using double
or single
.Pq Sq '
quotes.
-Note that the following characters are also treated specially by the
+The following characters are also treated specially by the
shell and must be quoted if they are to represent themselves:
.Ql \e ,
.Ql \&" ,
@@ -340,11 +340,14 @@ or an external command
parameter; see
.Sx Command execution
below).
-Note that all command constructs have an exit status: for external commands,
+.Pp
+All command constructs have an exit status.
+For external commands,
this is related to the status returned by
.Xr wait 2
(if the command could not be found, the exit status is 127; if it could not
-be executed, the exit status is 126); the exit status of other command
+be executed, the exit status is 126).
+The exit status of other command
constructs (built-in commands, functions, compound-commands, pipelines, lists,
etc.) are all well-defined and are described where the construct is
described.
@@ -396,7 +399,7 @@ have equal precedence which is higher than that of
and
.Ql \&; ,
which also have equal precedence.
-Note that the
+The
.Ql &&
and
.Ql ||
@@ -430,7 +433,7 @@ operator starts a co-process which is a special kind of asynchronous process
(see
.Sx Co-processes
below).
-Note that a command must follow the
+A command must follow the
.Ql &&
and
.Ql ||