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@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@ .\" Case Western Reserve University .\" chet.ramey@case.edu .\" -.\" Last Change: Mon Oct 22 09:55:27 EDT 2018 +.\" Last Change: Fri Dec 7 09:48:47 EST 2018 .\" .\" bash_builtins, strip all but Built-Ins section .if \n(zZ=1 .ig zZ .if \n(zY=1 .ig zY -.TH BASH 1 "2018 October 22" "GNU Bash 5.0" +.TH BASH 1 "2018 December 7" "GNU Bash 5.0" .\" .\" There's some problem with having a `@' .\" in a tagged paragraph with the BSD man macros. @@ -629,8 +629,11 @@ of a semicolon to delimit commands. If a command is terminated by the control operator .BR & , the shell executes the command in the \fIbackground\fP -in a subshell. The shell does not wait for the command to -finish, and the return status is 0. Commands separated by a +in a subshell. +The shell does not wait for the command to +finish, and the return status is 0. +These are referred to as \fIasynchronous\fP commands. +Commands separated by a .B ; are executed sequentially; the shell waits for each command to terminate in turn. The return status is the @@ -8036,8 +8039,8 @@ Mark \fIname\fPs for export to subsequent commands via the environment. .PP Using `+' instead of `\-' turns off the attribute instead, -with the exceptions that \fB+a\fP -may not be used to destroy an array variable and \fB+r\fP will not +with the exceptions that \fB+a\fP and \fB+A\fP +may not be used to destroy array variables and \fB+r\fP will not remove the readonly attribute. When used in a function, .B declare |