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Diffstat (limited to 'bin/ksh/ksh.1')
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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 || |