Re: Misleading phrasing about $! in documentation

2013-08-01 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-08-01 11:37, Chet Ramey wrote: > How about the command (or job) most recently placed in the background. That works for me. I'd be more inclined to use "job" since it avoids confusion about what happens when backgrounding a pipeline. Thanks. pgp2RdgUre66e.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Misleading phrasing about $! in documentation

2013-08-01 Thread Chet Ramey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/31/13 5:17 AM, Chris Down wrote: > I think our documentation on $! is a little misleading. `man bash' states: > > Special Parameters > The shell treats several parameters specially. These parameters may > only > be referenced

Misleading phrasing about $! in documentation

2013-07-31 Thread Chris Down
I think our documentation on $! is a little misleading. `man bash' states: Special Parameters The shell treats several parameters specially. These parameters may only be referenced; assignment to them is not allowed. [...] ! Expands to the process ID of the mo