Re: Is there reference manual for sh?

On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 06:22:09PM -0600, Lane wrote:
On Saturday 30 December 2006 12:22, a@xxxxxxxx wrote:
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).
Here's a "brute-force" manual:

#!/bin/sh
for each in `find /etc/rc.d`
do
more $each
done

If you need more than what is there then you probably need Kernigan and
Ritchie's The "C" Programming Language, (still) available on amazon.com.

lane

How about the following:

http://www3.cons.org/cracauer/bourneshell.html

http://steve-parker.org/sh/sh.shtml

http://www.unixreview.com/columns/schaefer/

or try the following and search for bourne shell

http://www.onlamp.com/bsd/

these are all starting points...hope this helps.
--
Alexander
FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE i386
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