On 5/20/22 2:06 PM, Therese Godefroy via RT wrote: > Hello Bash maintainers, > > Here is a challenging ticket. The requester complains about the > association of "n" and "word" in "Redirecting Input" (image.png is a > screenshot of this chapter with the examples emphasized): > https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Redirecting-Input
You might tell him that this is standard usage, up to and including the POSIX standard: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_07 I may change this sometime, but it's low priority. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
