Re: A few suggestions for the GNU Manual

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/31/23 12:59 PM, Wiley Young wrote:
> Hi,
>   Regarding the "Invoking Bash" page,
> https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Invoking-Bash.html

Thanks for the report.

> It might be more consistent and therefore perhaps more clear for all of the
> newbies out there if the description of "--restricted" also began with
> "Equivalent to -r," as the very next description does.
> "--restricted

This is reasonable.


> Also, a few lines later, there's the phrase, "There are several
> single-character options that may be supplied at invocation which are not
> available with the set builtin."
>
> Within that list there's the item,
> "-r
>
> Make the shell a restricted shell (see The Restricted Shell
> <https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Restricted-Shell.html>
> )."
> However, restricted mode is listed on the "Set Builtin" page:

Yes, I keep meaning to take it out of the set builtin; no one else,
including POSIX, has it there, and it doesn't really make much sense.
But the restricted shell is so little-used I never get around to it.

Chet

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