From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Jun 9 8:50:19 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 AFAF437B407 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 08:50:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g59Fo1X62566; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 08:50:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (blackend.org [212.11.50.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED9EC37B407 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 08:40:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/ - 15/04/02) with ESMTP id g59FatMa031913 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 17:36:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g59FatBd031912; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 17:36:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Message-Id: <200206091536.g59FatBd031912@abigail.blackend.org> Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 17:36:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Fonvieille Reply-To: Marc Fonvieille To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.113 Subject: docs/39064: Minor change and typos in section 3.7 of the Handbook 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: 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: >Keywords: >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. environment variables - Another function of the shell is environment variables. + 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 * 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 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 --- chapter.sgml.diff ends here --- >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message