Re: Man Page: Confusing wording

2018-04-10 Thread Tadeus Prastowo
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 1:32 AM, L A Walsh wrote: > > How about the below, suggested wording replacing these 2 paragraphs: > >A list is a sequence of one or more pipelines separated by one of the >operators ;, &, &&, or ||, and optionally terminated by one of ;, &, or >. > >Of th

Re: Man Page: Confusing wording

2018-04-09 Thread L A Walsh
How about the below, suggested wording replacing these 2 paragraphs: A list is a sequence of one or more pipelines separated by one of the operators ;, &, &&, or ||, and optionally terminated by one of ;, &, or . Of these list operators, && and || have equal precedence, followed b

Re: Man Page: Confusing wording

2018-04-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 05:00:51PM +0200, Lars Krueger wrote: >The line > >Of these list operators, && and || have equal precedence, followed >by ; and &, which have equal precedence. > >in the man page is rather confusing. I had to refresh my bison and >check parser.y to

Man Page: Confusing wording

2018-03-31 Thread Lars Krueger
Versions: GNU bash, version 4.4.12(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Gentoo Linux, amd64 Bug: The line Of these list operators, && and || have equal precedence, followed by ; and &, which have equal precedence. in the man page is rather confusing. I had to refresh my b