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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
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Subject: Re: sh man page ....
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On Fri, 10 Oct 2014, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:

> Well !!!! The sh man page is mute on the fact that an empty string is an 
> error in arithmetic or logical evaluations, which is an omission irrespective 
> of what bash does :-). I presume that converting Linux users to FBSD users is 
> an agenda item here (maybe my error), thus suitably complete man pages should 
> be an important goal, I would think. I didn't think converting from Linux to 
> FBSD was/is a bad habit ;-) ....

If there are things missing from sh(1), please enter a bug report.  I 
can't guarantee whether it will be worked on soon, but it will be there 
and waiting.