Re: Interested in contributing to Bash

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/23/17 2:55 PM, John McKown wrote:
> 
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> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu
> <mailto:chet.ramey@case.edu>> wrote:
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> 
>     The best thing to read to learn about how the shell is structured -- other
>     than the code itself -- is the unedited version of the chapter I wrote for
>     AOSA (The Architecture of Open Source Applications).  It's in the bash-4.4
>     distribution in doc/aosa-bash-full.pdf.
> 
> 
> Typos in PDF? I see "Postx" instead of "Posix". Just looks wrong to me. But
> I'm not an expert.

It's quite possible there are typos. I tried to get as many as I could, and
we went back and forth a couple of times, but this was before we really
started editing to cut the length.  It's maybe twice as long as the final
version.

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                 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/