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Diffstat (limited to 'bin/ksh/sh.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | bin/ksh/sh.1 | 21 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/bin/ksh/sh.1 b/bin/ksh/sh.1 index 36d354ae8a1..5da6b46b4ec 100644 --- a/bin/ksh/sh.1 +++ b/bin/ksh/sh.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: sh.1,v 1.50 2004/10/28 04:55:52 jaredy Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: sh.1,v 1.51 2004/11/05 14:56:31 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -803,7 +803,8 @@ and VAR is set to the substitution for $VAR results in four fields: .Sq A , .Sq B , -.Sq ,\& +.Sq +(an empty field), and .Sq D . Note that if the @@ -817,17 +818,17 @@ Also, note that the field splitting applies only to the immediate result of the substitution. Using the previous example, the substitution for $VAR:E results in the fields: -.Dq A , -.Dq B , -.Dq , +.Sq A , +.Sq B , +.Sq , and -.Dq D:E , +.Sq D:E , not -.Dq A , -.Dq B , -.Dq , +.Sq A , +.Sq B , +.Sq , and -.Dq E . +.Sq E . This behavior is POSIX compliant, but incompatible with some other shell implementations which do field splitting on the word which contained the substitution or use |