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From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] man ksh appears not to be about the korn shell
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 21:57:55
Message-Id: 87vf0ejn2p.fsf@newsguy.com
1 Has anyone else noticed that man ksh displays a page that at least
2 appears not to be about ksh93 or the newer korn shell?
3
4 The first three items:
5
6 NAME
7 sh, rsh, pfsh - shell, the standard/restricted command and
8 programming
9 language
10
11 SYNOPSIS
12 sh [ +-abcefhikmnoprstuvxCDP ] [ -R file ] [ +-o option ] ... [
13 - ] [
14 arg ... ]
15 rsh [ +-abcefhikmnoprstuvxCD ] [ -R file ] [ +-o option ] ...
16 [ - ] [
17 arg ... ]
18
19 DESCRIPTION
20
21 Sh is a command and programming language that executes commands
22 read from a terminal or a file. Rsh is a restricted version of
23 the standard command interpreter sh; it is used to set up login
24 names and execution environments whose capabilities are more
25 controlled than those of the standard shell. Rpfsh is a
26 profile shell version of the standard com- mand interpreter sh;
27 it is used to to execute commands with the attributes specified
28 by the user's profiles (see pfexec(1)). See Invo- cation below
29 for the meaning of arguments to the shell.
30
31 Is this somekind of error?
32
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Re: [gentoo-user] man ksh appears not to be about the korn shell Harald Arnesen <harald@×××××××.org>