From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Apr 14 10:50: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B9EE37B405 for ; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 10:50:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3EHo1641992; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 10:50:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Received: from Kain.sumuk.de (Kain.sumuk.de [213.221.86.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9A9437B416 for ; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 10:40:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Moses.earth.sol (Moses.earth.sol [192.168.1.1]) by Kain.sumuk.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3EHef002088 for ; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 19:40:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from martin@sumuk.de) Received: (from vincent@localhost) by Moses.earth.sol (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3EHeUL31340; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 19:40:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from vincent) Message-Id: <200204141740.g3EHeUL31340@Moses.earth.sol> Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 19:40:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Martin Heinen Reply-To: Martin Heinen To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.113 Subject: docs/37067: [PATCH] Handbook: mark up fix for section on Shells Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >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 *, changed to . >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 echo * is almost the same as typing in ls because the shell takes all the files that - match * and puts them on the command line for - echo to see. + match * and puts them on the command line for + echo to see. To prevent the shell from interpreting these special characters, they can be escaped from the shell by putting a backslash >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message