Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 09:53:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Fonvieille <marc@blackend.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/39089: Confusing part about setting/viewing environment vars in section 3.7 of the Handbook Message-ID: <200206100753.g5A7rM4H059849@abigail.blackend.org>
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>Number: 39089 >Category: docs >Synopsis: Confusing part about setting/viewing environment vars in section 3.7 of the Handbook >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Jun 10 01:00:07 PDT 2002 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Marc Fonvieille >Release: FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE i386 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD abigail.blackend.org 4.6-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE #5: Sun May 12 00:30:43 CEST 2002 marc@abigail.blackend.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/ABIGAIL i386 >Description: Confusing part about setting/viewing environment vars in section 3.7 of the Handbook. Telling that you can use setenv or export to view variables is quite confusing for the *newbie* (the use of echo $VARNAME is described below that part in that section). Read the patch below and http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/shells.html for more details. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: Apply the patch to handbook/basics/chapter.sgml --- chapter.sgml.diff begins here --- --- chapter.sgml.org Mon Jun 10 09:35:06 2002 +++ chapter.sgml Mon Jun 10 09:44:51 2002 @@ -1150,13 +1150,13 @@ </informaltable> <indexterm><primary>Bourne shells</primary></indexterm> - <para>To view or set an environment variable differs somewhat from + <para>To set an environment variable differs somewhat from shell to shell. For example, in the C-Style shells such as <command>tcsh</command> and <command>csh</command>, you would use - <command>setenv</command> to set and view environment variables. + <command>setenv</command> to set environment variables. Under Bourne shells such as <command>sh</command> and - <command>bash</command>, you would use <command>set</command> and - <command>export</command> to view and set your current environment + <command>bash</command>, you would use + <command>export</command> to set your current environment variables. For example, to set or modify the <envar>EDITOR</envar> environment variable, under <command>csh</command> or <command>tcsh</command> a --- chapter.sgml.diff ends here --- >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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