On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 02:58:45PM -0500, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 24, 2024, at 10:08 AM, Andreas Kähäri wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 09:31:42AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> >> Similar cases exist elsewhere within the man page. For example, if you
> >> search for $! or $$ you will not find the section that documents them.
> >> You would have to know that $! is a "Special Parameter", and then search
> >> for Special Parameter to find it -- and even then, what you find is just
> >> a raw ! with no $ in front of it. (My patch to clarify this was
> >> rejected. It doesn't help that POSIX documents this exactly the same
> >> way, with just # and ! and ? rather than $# and $! and $? being shown.)
> >
> > I don't agree that the special parameters should be written as $! etc.
> > since those are their _values_ when used in the shell (exactness is a
> > virtue in a manual).
>
> The strings "($*)", "($@)", "($#)", "($?)", "($-)", "($$)", "($!)",
> "($0)", and "($_, an underscore)" were added to doc/bash.1 last
> month [1]. The same strings, with the variations "($-, a hyphen.)"
> and "($_, an underscore.)", have been in doc/bashref.texi for eleven
> years [2].
The updated text is fine ("$@ Expands to ..."). I was reacting to "$!"
being a called a special parameter, when it's actually the expansion of
a special parameter.
>
> [1]
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/commit/?h=devel&id=9d1eb43fdd363137dd687bc411b14ab4946f939c
> [2]
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/commit/?h=devel&id=8aaae10d7aad1addfafa9857f4616051f143f477
>
> --
> vq
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Andreas (Kusalananda) Kähäri
Uppsala, Sweden
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