Re: bash mannual definitions

Turny Dávid wrote: > > Hi, > > I hope this mail is in the right place. I attached my mail, it is about > my problem with the definitions in the bash manual. I hope you can > clarify my mind. The basic difference is that operators include unquoted metacharacters and words do not. -- ``The lyf s

"wait" bug, now or ever?

Greetings, list, A coworker of mine scatters "wait" around his code a lot. I've seen "wait" after "echo" (and no, he's not waiting on some previously backgrounded process): echo something wait He asserts "The wait command waits until a program has *completely* finished", or words to that ef

bash mannual definitions

Hi, I hope this mail is in the right place. I attached my mail, it is about my problem with the definitions in the bash manual. I hope you can clarify my mind. This file is a simple utf8 plain text formated by groff. Sincerely, David --