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author | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2014-01-12 09:33:33 +0000 |
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committer | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2014-01-12 09:33:33 +0000 |
commit | 7ec2357ddb3793e2b656e3a823a4167e8d262d9a (patch) | |
tree | 325ac5db24c7d43bae3afbba49dca403c30b1dc0 /usr.bin/m4 | |
parent | e84349af98abe2f0d7d3f8ea8d8a2de8aaee24b5 (diff) |
expand the "eval" description a little; from wiz@netbsd
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/m4')
-rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/m4/m4.1 | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/m4/m4.1 b/usr.bin/m4/m4.1 index beaba0785e7..96048b03a9f 100644 --- a/usr.bin/m4/m4.1 +++ b/usr.bin/m4/m4.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" @(#) $OpenBSD: m4.1,v 1.60 2013/07/16 00:07:52 schwarze Exp $ +.\" @(#) $OpenBSD: m4.1,v 1.61 2014/01/12 09:33:32 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: July 16 2013 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: January 12 2014 $ .Dt M4 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -259,15 +259,17 @@ Prints the first argument on the standard error output stream. Passes its first argument to a shell and returns the shell's standard output. Note that the shell shares its standard input and standard error with .Nm . -.It Fn eval expr +.It Fn eval expr[,radix[,minimum]] Computes the first argument as an arithmetic expression using 32-bit arithmetic. Operators are the standard C ternary, arithmetic, logical, shift, relational, bitwise, and parentheses operators. You can specify octal, decimal, and hexadecimal numbers as in C. -The second argument (if any) -specifies the radix for the result and the third argument (if any) +The optional second argument +.Fa radix +specifies the radix for the result and the optional third argument +.Fa minimum specifies the minimum number of digits in the result. .It Fn expr expr This is an alias for |