Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 15:11:49 -0400 (EDT) From: eogren@earthlink.net To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/18178: [patch] minor touch-up changing shells section Message-ID: <200004231911.e3NJBnx02584@rod.darktech.org>
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>Number: 18178
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [patch] minor touch-up changing shells section
>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 23 12:20:02 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Eric Ogren
>Release: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD rod.darktech.org 4.0-STABLE FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #3: Tue Apr 4 21:01:56 EDT 2000 eogren@rod.darktech.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/BLUE i386
>Description:
A couple of weeks ago, I submitted PR 17862, which added a section to the
handbook about changing your shell. I reread the entry today, and I
noticed that there are a couple of minor problems; a patch is attached to
fix them.
>How-To-Repeat:
n/a
>Fix:
Index: chapter.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/doctree/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.17
diff -u -r1.17 chapter.sgml
--- chapter.sgml 2000/04/10 19:17:16 1.17
+++ chapter.sgml 2000/04/23 19:06:28
@@ -336,15 +336,16 @@
<title>Changing your shell</title>
<para>The easiest way to change your shell is to use the
- <command>chsh</command>. Running <command>chsh</command> will
+ <command>chsh</command> command. Running <command>chsh</command> will
place you into the editor that is in your <envar>EDITOR</envar>
environment variable; if it is not set, you will be placed in
<command>vi</command>. Change the “Shell:” line
accordingly.</para>
<para>You can also give <command>chsh</command> the
- <option>-s</option> option; this will set the shell for you
- without having to enter the editor. For example, if you wanted to
+ <option>-s</option> option; this will set your shell for you,
+ without requiring you to enter an editor.
+ For example, if you wanted to
change your shell to bash, the following should do the
trick:</para>
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