Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 19:40:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Martin Heinen <martin@sumuk.de> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/37067: [PATCH] Handbook: mark up fix for section on Shells Message-ID: <200204141740.g3EHeUL31340@Moses.earth.sol>
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>Number: 37067
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [PATCH] Handbook: mark up fix for section on Shells
>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: Sun Apr 14 10:50:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Martin Heinen
>Release: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD Moses.earth.sol 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #0: Sat Dec 22 07:35:30 CET 2001 toor@Moses.earth.sol:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MOSES i386
>Description:
* isn't a command as implied by <command>*</command>,
changed to <literal>.
>How-To-Repeat:
Read the section on Shells in the handbook.
>Fix:
Index: basics/chapter.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /u/cvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.60
diff -u -r1.60 chapter.sgml
--- basics/chapter.sgml 7 Apr 2002 23:52:35 -0000 1.60
+++ basics/chapter.sgml 13 Apr 2002 10:29:45 -0000
@@ -1182,8 +1182,8 @@
to do file name globing. For example, typing in
<command>echo *</command> is almost the same as typing in
<command>ls</command> because the shell takes all the files that
- match <command>*</command> and puts them on the command line for
- echo to see.</para>
+ match <literal>*</literal> and puts them on the command line for
+ <command>echo</command> to see.</para>
<para>To prevent the shell from interpreting these special characters,
they can be escaped from the shell by putting a backslash
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