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Written by: Lionel Cons <Lionel.Cons@cern.ch> (original author)
Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
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<H1>Bash Reference Manual</H1></P><P>
This text is a brief description of the features that are present in
the Bash shell (version 3.2, 12 January 2007).
the Bash shell (version 3.2, 1 May 2007).
</P><P>
This is Edition 3.2, last updated 12 January 2007,
This is Edition 3.2, last updated 1 May 2007,
of <CITE>The GNU Bash Reference Manual</CITE>,
for <CODE>Bash</CODE>, Version 3.2.
</P><P>
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In addition to the creation of a subshell, there is a subtle difference
between these two constructs due to historical reasons. The braces
are <CODE>reserved words</CODE>, so they must be separated from the <VAR>list</VAR>
by <CODE>blank</CODE>s. The parentheses are <CODE>operators</CODE>, and are
by <CODE>blank</CODE>s or other shell metacharacters.
The parentheses are <CODE>operators</CODE>, and are
recognized as separate tokens by the shell even if they are not separated
from the <VAR>list</VAR> by whitespace.
</P><P>
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that surround the body of the function must be separated from the body by
<CODE>blank</CODE>s or newlines.
This is because the braces are reserved words and are only recognized
as such when they are separated by whitespace.
as such when they are separated from the command list
by whitespace or another shell metacharacter.
Also, when using the braces, the <VAR>list</VAR> must be terminated by a semicolon,
a <SAMP>`&#38;'</SAMP>, or a newline.
</P><P>
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Expressions may be combined using the following operators, listed in
decreasing order of precedence.
The evaluation depends on the number of arguments; see below.
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operators (see section <A HREF="bashref.html#SEC80">6.4 Bash Conditional Expressions</A>), the
result of the expression is the result of the binary test using the
first and third arguments as operands.
The <SAMP>`-a'</SAMP> and <SAMP>`-o'</SAMP> operators are considered binary operators
when there are three arguments.
If the first argument is <SAMP>`!'</SAMP>, the value is the negation of
the two-argument test using the second and third arguments.
If the first argument is exactly <SAMP>`('</SAMP> and the third argument is
exactly <SAMP>`)'</SAMP>, the result is the one-argument test of the second
argument.
Otherwise, the expression is false.
The <SAMP>`-a'</SAMP> and <SAMP>`-o'</SAMP> operators are considered binary operators
in this case.
<P>
<DT>4 arguments
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<DT><CODE>history-preserve-point</CODE>
<DD><A NAME="IDX304"></A>
If set to <SAMP>`on'</SAMP>, the history code attempts to place point at the
If set to <SAMP>`on'</SAMP>, the history code attempts to place the point (the
current cursor position) at the
same location on each history line retrieved with <CODE>previous-history</CODE>
or <CODE>next-history</CODE>. The default is <SAMP>`off'</SAMP>.
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<TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">[<A HREF="bashref.html#SEC_About"> ? </A>]</TD>
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