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diff --git a/doc/bashref.texi b/doc/bashref.texi index bf95ead5..ed633521 100644 --- a/doc/bashref.texi +++ b/doc/bashref.texi @@ -696,7 +696,8 @@ to delimit commands, equivalent to a semicolon. If a command is terminated by the control operator @samp{&}, the shell executes the command asynchronously in a subshell. -This is known as executing the command in the @var{background}. +This is known as executing the command in the @var{background}, +and these are referred to as @var{asynchronous} commands. The shell does not wait for the command to finish, and the return status is 0 (true). When job control is not active (@pxref{Job Control}), @@ -4207,8 +4208,8 @@ the environment. @end table Using @samp{+} instead of @samp{-} turns off the attribute instead, -with the exceptions that @samp{+a} -may not be used to destroy an array variable and @samp{+r} will not +with the exceptions that @samp{+a} and @samp{+A} +may not be used to destroy array variables and @samp{+r} will not remove the readonly attribute. When used in a function, @code{declare} makes each @var{name} local, as with the @code{local} command, unless the @option{-g} option is used. |