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Re: Making $! and $? searchable in the man page
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Marc Herbert |
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Re: Making $! and $? searchable in the man page |
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Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:21:39 +0000 |
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Le 06/01/2011 09:48, Vidar Holen a écrit :
> Finding the meaning of $? and $! in the man page is quite hard for people
> not familiar with the layout and bash terminology (this frequently comes
> up in Freenode #bash). It would be very helpful for them if you could
> simply search for "$!" to find the description of the parameter !.
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> Below is a suggestion patch that just adds a $ in front of the parameters
> under Special Parameters to make this possible.
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Well done Vidar, such problems are (were?) very annoying indeed.