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| author | Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> | 2018-12-20 11:41:58 -0500 |
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| committer | Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> | 2018-12-20 11:41:58 -0500 |
| commit | f250956cb2a8dca13fc0242affc225f9d6983604 (patch) | |
| tree | 2df8e15963af786dc8efed1c91c4d823a3bf05bb /doc/bashref.html | |
| parent | 2ae59c1134a75d5778997b7202b15b0586283042 (diff) | |
| download | bash-5.0-testing.tar.gz | |
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diff --git a/doc/bashref.html b/doc/bashref.html index e5e150b3..1a846f2d 100644 --- a/doc/bashref.html +++ b/doc/bashref.html @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- This text is a brief description of the features that are present in -the Bash shell (version 5.0, 9 November 2018). +the Bash shell (version 5.0, 7 December 2018). -This is Edition 5.0, last updated 9 November 2018, +This is Edition 5.0, last updated 7 December 2018, of The GNU Bash Reference Manual, for Bash, Version 5.0. @@ -284,10 +284,10 @@ Next: <a href="#Introduction" accesskey="n" rel="next">Introduction</a>, Previou <h1 class="top">Bash Features</h1> <p>This text is a brief description of the features that are present in -the Bash shell (version 5.0, 9 November 2018). +the Bash shell (version 5.0, 7 December 2018). The Bash home page is <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/">http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/</a>. </p> -<p>This is Edition 5.0, last updated 9 November 2018, +<p>This is Edition 5.0, last updated 7 December 2018, of <cite>The GNU Bash Reference Manual</cite>, for <code>Bash</code>, Version 5.0. </p> @@ -1094,7 +1094,8 @@ to delimit commands, equivalent to a semicolon. </p> <p>If a command is terminated by the control operator ‘<samp>&</samp>’, the shell executes the command asynchronously in a subshell. -This is known as executing the command in the <var>background</var>. +This is known as executing the command in the <var>background</var>, +and these are referred to as <var>asynchronous</var> commands. The shell does not wait for the command to finish, and the return status is 0 (true). When job control is not active (see <a href="#Job-Control">Job Control</a>), @@ -4904,8 +4905,8 @@ the environment. </dl> <p>Using ‘<samp>+</samp>’ instead of ‘<samp>-</samp>’ turns off the attribute instead, -with the exceptions that ‘<samp>+a</samp>’ -may not be used to destroy an array variable and ‘<samp>+r</samp>’ will not +with the exceptions that ‘<samp>+a</samp>’ and ‘<samp>+A</samp>’ +may not be used to destroy array variables and ‘<samp>+r</samp>’ will not remove the readonly attribute. When used in a function, <code>declare</code> makes each <var>name</var> local, as with the <code>local</code> command, unless the <samp>-g</samp> option is used. |