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diff --git a/builtins/reserved.def b/builtins/reserved.def index 0f293d3..5482f5f 100644 --- a/builtins/reserved.def +++ b/builtins/reserved.def @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ This file is reserved.def, in which the shell reserved words are defined. It has no direct C file production, but defines builtins for the Bash builtin help command. -Copyright (C) 1987-2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1987-2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU Bash, the Bourne Again SHell. @@ -73,12 +73,13 @@ $END $BUILTIN if $SHORT_DOC if COMMANDS; then COMMANDS; [ elif COMMANDS; then COMMANDS; ]... [ else COMMANDS; ] fi -The if COMMANDS are executed. If the exit status is zero, then the then -COMMANDS are executed. Otherwise, each of the elif COMMANDS are executed -in turn, and if the exit status is zero, the corresponding then COMMANDS -are executed and the if command completes. Otherwise, the else COMMANDS -are executed, if present. The exit status is the exit status of the last -command executed, or zero if no condition tested true. +The `if COMMANDS' list is executed. If its exit status is zero, then the +`then COMMANDS' list is executed. Otherwise, each `elif COMMANDS' list is +executed in turn, and if its exit status is zero, the corresponding +`then COMMANDS' list is executed and the if command completes. Otherwise, +the `else COMMANDS' list is executed, if present. The exit status of the +entire construct is the exit status of the last command executed, or zero +if no condition tested true. $END $BUILTIN while @@ -109,11 +110,12 @@ $END $BUILTIN % $DOCNAME fg_percent -$SHORT_DOC %[DIGITS | WORD] [&] -This is similar to the `fg' command. Resume a stopped or background -job. If you specifiy DIGITS, then that job is used. If you specify -WORD, then the job whose name begins with WORD is used. Following the -job specification with a `&' places the job in the background. +$SHORT_DOC JOB_SPEC [&] +Equivalent to the JOB_SPEC argument to the `fg' command. Resume a +stopped or background job. JOB_SPEC can specify either a job name +or a job number. Following JOB_SPEC with a `&' places the job in +the background, as if the job specification had been supplied as an +argument to `bg'. $END $BUILTIN (( ... )) @@ -145,9 +147,8 @@ $BUILTIN variables $DOCNAME variable_help $SHORT_DOC variables - Some variable names and meanings BASH_VERSION Version information for this Bash. -CDPATH A colon separated list of directories to search - when the argument to `cd' is not found in the current - directory. +CDPATH A colon-separated list of directories to search + for directries given as arguments to `cd'. GLOBIGNORE A colon-separated list of patterns describing filenames to be ignored by pathname expansion. #if defined (HISTORY) |