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diff --git a/bin/csh/USD.doc/csh.a b/bin/csh/USD.doc/csh.a new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..cae935750b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/bin/csh/USD.doc/csh.a @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: csh.a,v 1.3 1995/03/21 09:03:41 cgd Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the University of +.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)csh.a 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/8/93 +.\" +.SH +Appendix \- Special characters +.LP +The following table lists the special characters of +.I csh +and the \s-2UNIX\s0 system, giving for each the section(s) in which it +is discussed. +A number of these characters also have special meaning in expressions. +See the +.I csh +manual section +for a complete list. +.ta .75i 1.5i 2.25i +.LP +Syntactic metacharacters +.DS +; 2.4 separates commands to be executed sequentially +| 1.5 separates commands in a pipeline +( ) 2.2,3.6 brackets expressions and variable values +& 2.5 follows commands to be executed without waiting for completion +.DE +.LP +Filename metacharacters +.DS +/ 1.6 separates components of a file's pathname +\. 1.6 separates root parts of a file name from extensions +? 1.6 expansion character matching any single character +* 1.6 expansion character matching any sequence of characters +[ ] 1.6 expansion sequence matching any single character from a set +~ 1.6 used at the beginning of a filename to indicate home directories +{ } 4.2 used to specify groups of arguments with common parts +.DE +.LP +Quotation metacharacters +.DS +\e 1.7 prevents meta-meaning of following single character +\' 1.7 prevents meta-meaning of a group of characters +" 4.3 like \', but allows variable and command expansion +.DE +.LP +Input/output metacharacters +.DS +< 1.5 indicates redirected input +> 1.3 indicates redirected output +.DE +.LP +Expansion/substitution metacharacters +.DS +$ 3.4 indicates variable substitution +! 2.3 indicates history substitution +: 3.6 precedes substitution modifiers +^ 2.3 used in special forms of history substitution +\` 4.3 indicates command substitution +.DE +.LP +Other metacharacters +.DS +# 1.3,3.6 begins scratch file names; indicates shell comments +\- 1.2 prefixes option (flag) arguments to commands +% 2.6 prefixes job name specifications +.DE +.bp |