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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/make')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/make/make.1 | 20 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/make/make.1 b/usr.bin/make/make.1 index cb3508afa70..eed09dc287b 100644 --- a/usr.bin/make/make.1 +++ b/usr.bin/make/make.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: make.1,v 1.87 2010/07/19 19:46:44 espie Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: make.1,v 1.88 2010/07/19 21:43:17 espie Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: make.1,v 1.18 1997/03/10 21:19:53 christos Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993 @@ -723,6 +723,11 @@ the rest of the modifier. Quotes every shell meta-character in the variable, so that it can be passed safely through recursive invocations of .Nm make . +.It Cm :QL +Quote list: quotes every shell meta-character in the variable, except +whitespace, so that it can be passed to a shell's +.Sq for +loops. .It Cm :R Replaces each word in the variable with everything but its suffix. .Sm off @@ -831,11 +836,24 @@ is the substring of .Ar old_string to be replaced in .Ar new_string . +The right hand side +.Pq Ar new_string +may contain variable values, which will be expanded. +To put an actual single dollar, just double it. .El .Pp All modifiers are BSD extensions, except for the standard .At V style variable substitution. +.Pp +The interpretation of +.Ar % +and +.Ar $ +in +.At V +variable substitutions is not mandated by POSIX, though it is +fairly common. .Sh INCLUDE STATEMENTS, CONDITIONALS AND FOR LOOPS Makefile inclusion, conditional structures and for loops reminiscent of the C programming language are provided in |