bash-4.4-rc2 release

doc/bash.1

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 \fBMAILPATH\fP=\(aq/var/mail/bfox?"You have mail":~/shell\-mail?"$_ has mail!"\(aq
 .PP
 .B Bash
-supplies a default value for this variable, but the location of the user
+can be configured to supply
+a default value for this variable (there is no value by default),
+but the location of the user
 mail files that it uses is system dependent (e.g., /var/mail/\fB$USER\fP).
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 .IR dirlist .
 .PP
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-redirections, as described in the following table:
+redirections, as described in the following table.
+If the operating system on which \fBbash\fP is running provides these
+special files, bash will use them; otherwise it will emulate them
+internally with the behavior described below.
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doc/bash.html

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 <B>Bash</B>
 
-supplies a default value for this variable, but the location of the user
+can be configured to supply
+a default value for this variable (there is no value by default),
+but the location of the user
 mail files that it uses is system dependent (e.g., /var/mail/<B>$USER</B>).
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 <P>
 
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-redirections, as described in the following table:
+redirections, as described in the following table.
+If the operating system on which <B>bash</B> is running provides these
+special files, bash will use them; otherwise it will emulate them
+internally with the behavior described below.
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-Time: 20 June 2016 15:38:21 EDT
+Time: 14 July 2016 11:48:02 EDT
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doc/bashref.html

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 before the standard output was redirected to <var>dirlist</var>.
 </p>
 <p>Bash handles several filenames specially when they are used in
-redirections, as described in the following table:
+redirections, as described in the following table.
+If the operating system on which Bash is running provides these
+special files, bash will use them; otherwise it will emulate them
+internally with the behavior described below.
 </p>
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doc/bashref.info

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 was redirected to DIRLIST.
 
    Bash handles several filenames specially when they are used in
-redirections, as described in the following table:
+redirections, as described in the following table.  If the operating
+system on which Bash is running provides these special files, bash will
+use them; otherwise it will emulate them internally with the behavior
+described below.
 
 '/dev/fd/FD'
      If FD is a valid integer, file descriptor FD is duplicated.
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doc/bashref.texi

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 Bash handles several filenames specially when they are used in
-redirections, as described in the following table:
+redirections, as described in the following table.
+If the operating system on which Bash is running provides these
+special files, bash will use them; otherwise it will emulate them
+internally with the behavior described below.
 
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