Re: Is there reference manual for sh?



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On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 10:16:20AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote:

a@xxxxxxxx writes:

I need a reference manual or specification for sh.
Where can I find it?

In you mean within FreeBSD, try:

man sh

or

man builtin,

As a user, the O'Reilly _UNIX in a Nutshell_ I bought many
years ago was a very wise investment.
If you want to hack the code ... the start with the code. And
good luck.


Robert Huff

I need any online complete manual on sh, not a brief as it is man sh.
The last one doesn't describe many features both interactive
(command line
editing, using history interactively, and many others)
and scripting (for example, conditional expressions).

I would really recomend then O'reilly "Learning the Bash Shell".. esentially bash is backward compatible with sg (Bourne shell) and there is not really an online resource that I ever found to be as useful as this book

My 2 cents worth

david

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