Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 13:00:56 +0000 (UTC) From: Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r40296 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq Message-ID: <201212071300.qB7D0uAS099105@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: eadler Date: Fri Dec 7 13:00:56 2012 New Revision: 40296 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40296 Log: Update question relating to why sh(1) is minimal. PR: 174029 Submitted by: Derek Wood <ddwood@highdensity.org> Reviewed by: jilles Approved by: bcr (mentor) Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Fri Dec 7 13:00:53 2012 (r40295) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Fri Dec 7 13:00:56 2012 (r40296) @@ -3986,13 +3986,10 @@ kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC -> i82 </question> <answer> - <para>Because &posix; says that there shall be such a - shell.</para> - - <para>The more complicated answer: many people need to write + <para>Many people need to write shell scripts which will be portable across many systems. That is why &posix; specifies the shell and utility commands - in great detail. Most scripts are written in Bourne shell, + in great detail. Most scripts are written in Bourne shell (&man.sh.1;), and because several important programming interfaces (&man.make.1;, &man.system.3;, &man.popen.3;, and analogues in higher-level scripting languages like Perl and Tcl) are @@ -4008,7 +4005,7 @@ kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC -> i82 other shells have. That is why the Ports Collection includes more featureful shells like <command>bash</command>, <command>scsh</command>, - <command>tcsh</command>, and <command>zsh</command>. (You + &man.tcsh.1;, and <command>zsh</command>. (You can compare for yourself the memory utilization of all these shells by looking at the <quote>VSZ</quote> and <quote>RSS</quote> columns in a <command>ps
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