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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 &ldquo;Shell:&rdquo; 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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