Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 17:36:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Fonvieille <marc@blackend.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/39064: Minor change and typos in section 3.7 of the Handbook Message-ID: <200206091536.g59FatBd031912@abigail.blackend.org>
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>Number: 39064
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Minor change and typos in section 3.7 of the Handbook
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
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>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Jun 09 08:50:00 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Marc Fonvieille
>Release: FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD abigail.blackend.org 4.6-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE #5: Sun May 12 00:30:43 CEST 2002 marc@abigail.blackend.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/ABIGAIL i386
>Description:
Minor change and typos in section 3.7 of the Handbook. Read the patch
below for more details (sorry i missed the typos for my previous PR).
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Apply the patch to handbook/basics/chapter.sgml
--- chapter.sgml.diff begins here ---
--- chapter.sgml.org Sun Jun 9 17:29:59 2002
+++ chapter.sgml Sun Jun 9 17:33:11 2002
@@ -1068,7 +1068,7 @@
fill in the rest of the filename for you.</para>
<indexterm><primary>environment variables</primary></indexterm>
- <para>Another function of the shell is environment variables.
+ <para>Another feature of the shell is the use of environment variables.
Environment variables are a variable key pair stored in the shell's
environment space. This space can be read by any program invoked by
the shell, and thus contains a lot of program configuration. Here
@@ -1179,7 +1179,7 @@
as special representations of data. The most common one is the
<literal>*</literal> character, which represents any number of
characters in a filename. These special meta-characters can be used
- to do file name globing. For example, typing in
+ to do filename globbing. 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 <literal>*</literal> and puts them on the command line for
--- chapter.sgml.diff ends here ---
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