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28ef6c31 | 14 | .TH BASH 1 "2001 Mar 5" "GNU Bash-2.05" |
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46 | .. | |
47 | .SH NAME | |
ccc6cda3 | 48 | bash \- GNU Bourne-Again SHell |
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49 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
50 | .B bash | |
51 | [options] | |
52 | [file] | |
53 | .SH COPYRIGHT | |
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54 | .if n Bash is Copyright (C) 1989-2001 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
55 | .if t Bash is Copyright \(co 1989-2001 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. | |
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56 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
57 | .B Bash | |
ccc6cda3 | 58 | is an \fBsh\fR-compatible command language interpreter that |
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59 | executes commands read from the standard input or from a file. |
60 | .B Bash | |
61 | also incorporates useful features from the \fIKorn\fP and \fIC\fP | |
62 | shells (\fBksh\fP and \fBcsh\fP). | |
63 | .PP | |
64 | .B Bash | |
cce855bc | 65 | is intended to be a conformant implementation of the IEEE |
ccc6cda3 | 66 | POSIX Shell and Tools specification (IEEE Working Group 1003\.2). |
726f6388 | 67 | .SH OPTIONS |
ccc6cda3 | 68 | In addition to the single-character shell options documented in the |
726f6388 | 69 | description of the \fBset\fR builtin command, \fBbash\fR |
cce855bc | 70 | interprets the following options when it is invoked: |
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71 | .PP |
72 | .PD 0 | |
73 | .TP 10 | |
74 | .BI \-c "\| string\^" | |
ccc6cda3 | 75 | If the |
726f6388 | 76 | .B \-c |
cce855bc | 77 | option is present, then commands are read from |
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78 | .IR string . |
79 | If there are arguments after the | |
80 | .IR string , | |
81 | they are assigned to the positional parameters, starting with | |
82 | .BR $0 . | |
83 | .TP | |
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84 | .B \-r |
85 | If the | |
86 | .B \-r | |
cce855bc | 87 | option is present, the shell becomes |
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88 | .I restricted |
89 | (see | |
90 | .SM | |
91 | .B "RESTRICTED SHELL" | |
92 | below). | |
93 | .TP | |
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94 | .B \-i |
95 | If the | |
96 | .B \-i | |
cce855bc | 97 | option is present, the shell is |
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98 | .IR interactive . |
99 | .TP | |
100 | .B \-s | |
101 | If the | |
102 | .B \-s | |
cce855bc | 103 | option is present, or if no arguments remain after option |
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104 | processing, then commands are read from the standard input. |
105 | This option allows the positional parameters to be set | |
106 | when invoking an interactive shell. | |
107 | .TP | |
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108 | .B \-D |
109 | A list of all double-quoted strings preceded by \fB$\fP | |
110 | is printed on the standard ouput. | |
111 | These are the strings that | |
112 | are subject to language translation when the current locale | |
28ef6c31 | 113 | is not \fBC\fP or \fBPOSIX\fP. |
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114 | This implies the \fB\-n\fP option; no commands will be executed. |
115 | .TP | |
116 | .B \-\- | |
117 | A | |
118 | .B \-\- | |
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119 | signals the end of options and disables further option processing. |
120 | Any arguments after the | |
726f6388 | 121 | .B \-\- |
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122 | are treated as filenames and arguments. An argument of |
123 | .B \- | |
124 | is equivalent to \fB\-\-\fP. | |
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125 | .PD |
126 | .PP | |
127 | .B Bash | |
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128 | also interprets a number of multi-character options. |
129 | These options must appear on the command line before the | |
130 | single-character options in order for them to be recognized. | |
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131 | .PP |
132 | .PD 0 | |
726f6388 | 133 | .TP |
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134 | .B \-\-dump\-po\-strings |
135 | Equivalent to \fB\-D\fP, but the output is in the GNU \fIgettext\fP | |
136 | \fBpo\fP (portable object) file format. | |
137 | .TP | |
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138 | .B \-\-dump\-strings |
139 | Equivalent to \fB\-D\fP. | |
140 | .TP | |
141 | .B \-\-help | |
142 | Display a usage message on standard output and exit successfully. | |
143 | .TP | |
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144 | .PD 0 |
145 | \fB\-\-init\-file\fP \fIfile\fP | |
146 | .TP | |
147 | \fB\-\-rcfile\fP \fIfile\fP | |
148 | .PD | |
149 | Execute commands from | |
150 | .I file | |
151 | instead of the standard personal initialization file | |
152 | .I ~/.bashrc | |
153 | if the shell is interactive (see | |
154 | .SM | |
155 | .B INVOCATION | |
156 | below). | |
157 | .TP | |
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158 | .B \-\-login |
159 | Make | |
160 | .B bash | |
161 | act as if it had been invoked as a login shell (see | |
162 | .SM | |
163 | .B INVOCATION | |
164 | below). | |
165 | .TP | |
166 | .B \-\-noediting | |
167 | Do not use the GNU | |
168 | .B readline | |
bb70624e | 169 | library to read command lines when the shell is interactive. |
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170 | .TP |
171 | .B \-\-noprofile | |
172 | Do not read either the system-wide startup file | |
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173 | .FN /etc/profile |
174 | or any of the personal initialization files | |
175 | .IR ~/.bash_profile , | |
176 | .IR ~/.bash_login , | |
177 | or | |
178 | .IR ~/.profile . | |
179 | By default, | |
180 | .B bash | |
ccc6cda3 | 181 | reads these files when it is invoked as a login shell (see |
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182 | .SM |
183 | .B INVOCATION | |
184 | below). | |
185 | .TP | |
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186 | .B \-\-norc |
187 | Do not read and execute the personal initialization file | |
188 | .I ~/.bashrc | |
189 | if the shell is interactive. | |
190 | This option is on by default if the shell is invoked as | |
191 | .BR sh . | |
192 | .TP | |
193 | .B \-\-posix | |
194 | Change the behavior of \fBbash\fP where the default operation differs | |
28ef6c31 | 195 | from the POSIX 1003.2 standard to match the standard (\fIposix mode\fP). |
726f6388 | 196 | .TP |
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197 | .B \-\-restricted |
198 | The shell becomes restricted (see | |
199 | .SM | |
200 | .B "RESTRICTED SHELL" | |
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201 | below). |
202 | .TP | |
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203 | .B \-\-verbose |
204 | Equivalent to \fB\-v\fP. | |
726f6388 | 205 | .TP |
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206 | .B \-\-version |
207 | Show version information for this instance of | |
208 | .B bash | |
209 | on the standard output and exit successfully. | |
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210 | .PD |
211 | .SH ARGUMENTS | |
212 | If arguments remain after option processing, and neither the | |
213 | .B \-c | |
214 | nor the | |
215 | .B \-s | |
216 | option has been supplied, the first argument is assumed to | |
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217 | be the name of a file containing shell commands. |
218 | If | |
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219 | .B bash |
220 | is invoked in this fashion, | |
221 | .B $0 | |
222 | is set to the name of the file, and the positional parameters | |
223 | are set to the remaining arguments. | |
224 | .B Bash | |
225 | reads and executes commands from this file, then exits. | |
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226 | \fBBash\fP's exit status is the exit status of the last command |
227 | executed in the script. | |
228 | If no commands are executed, the exit status is 0. | |
229 | .SH INVOCATION | |
230 | A \fIlogin shell\fP is one whose first character of argument zero is a | |
231 | .BR \- , | |
232 | or one started with the | |
233 | .B \-\-login | |
234 | option. | |
235 | .PP | |
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236 | An \fIinteractive\fP shell is one started without non-option arguments |
237 | and without the | |
238 | .B \-c | |
239 | option | |
240 | whose standard input and output are | |
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241 | both connected to terminals (as determined by |
242 | .IR isatty (3)), | |
243 | or one started with the | |
244 | .B \-i | |
245 | option. | |
246 | .SM | |
247 | .B PS1 | |
248 | is set and | |
249 | .B $\- | |
250 | includes | |
251 | .B i | |
252 | if | |
253 | .B bash | |
254 | is interactive, | |
255 | allowing a shell script or a startup file to test this state. | |
256 | .PP | |
257 | The following paragraphs describe how | |
258 | .B bash | |
259 | executes its startup files. | |
260 | If any of the files exist but cannot be read, | |
261 | .B bash | |
262 | reports an error. | |
263 | Tildes are expanded in file names as described below under | |
264 | .B "Tilde Expansion" | |
265 | in the | |
266 | .SM | |
267 | .B EXPANSION | |
268 | section. | |
269 | .PP | |
270 | When | |
271 | .B bash | |
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272 | is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interactive shell |
273 | with the \fB\-\-login\fP option, it first reads and | |
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274 | executes commands from the file \fI/etc/profile\fP, if that |
275 | file exists. | |
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276 | After reading that file, it looks for \fI~/.bash_profile\fP, |
277 | \fI~/.bash_login\fP, and \fI~/.profile\fP, in that order, and reads | |
278 | and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable. | |
279 | The | |
280 | .B \-\-noprofile | |
281 | option may be used when the shell is started to inhibit this behavior. | |
282 | .PP | |
283 | When a login shell exits, | |
284 | .B bash | |
285 | reads and executes commands from the file \fI~/.bash_logout\fP, if it | |
286 | exists. | |
287 | .PP | |
288 | When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, | |
289 | .B bash | |
290 | reads and executes commands from \fI~/.bashrc\fP, if that file exists. | |
291 | This may be inhibited by using the | |
292 | .B \-\-norc | |
293 | option. | |
294 | The \fB\-\-rcfile\fP \fIfile\fP option will force | |
295 | .B bash | |
296 | to read and execute commands from \fIfile\fP instead of \fI~/.bashrc\fP. | |
297 | .PP | |
298 | When | |
299 | .B bash | |
300 | is started non-interactively, to run a shell script, for example, it | |
301 | looks for the variable | |
302 | .SM | |
303 | .B BASH_ENV | |
304 | in the environment, expands its value if it appears there, and uses the | |
305 | expanded value as the name of a file to read and execute. | |
306 | .B Bash | |
307 | behaves as if the following command were executed: | |
308 | .sp .5 | |
309 | .RS | |
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310 | .if t \f(CWif [ \-n "$BASH_ENV" ]; then . "$BASH_ENV"; fi\fP |
311 | .if n if [ \-n "$BASH_ENV" ]; then . "$BASH_ENV"; fi | |
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312 | .RE |
313 | .sp .5 | |
314 | but the value of the | |
315 | .SM | |
316 | .B PATH | |
317 | variable is not used to search for the file name. | |
318 | .PP | |
319 | If | |
320 | .B bash | |
321 | is invoked with the name | |
322 | .BR sh , | |
323 | it tries to mimic the startup behavior of historical versions of | |
324 | .B sh | |
325 | as closely as possible, | |
326 | while conforming to the POSIX standard as well. | |
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327 | When invoked as an interactive login shell, or a non-interactive |
328 | shell with the \fB\-\-login\fP option, it first attempts to | |
cce855bc | 329 | read and execute commands from |
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330 | .I /etc/profile |
331 | and | |
332 | .IR ~/.profile , | |
333 | in that order. | |
334 | The | |
335 | .B \-\-noprofile | |
336 | option may be used to inhibit this behavior. | |
337 | When invoked as an interactive shell with the name | |
338 | .BR sh , | |
339 | .B bash | |
340 | looks for the variable | |
341 | .SM | |
342 | .BR ENV , | |
343 | expands its value if it is defined, and uses the | |
344 | expanded value as the name of a file to read and execute. | |
345 | Since a shell invoked as | |
346 | .B sh | |
347 | does not attempt to read and execute commands from any other startup | |
348 | files, the | |
349 | .B \-\-rcfile | |
350 | option has no effect. | |
351 | A non-interactive shell invoked with the name | |
352 | .B sh | |
b72432fd | 353 | does not attempt to read any other startup files. |
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354 | When invoked as |
355 | .BR sh , | |
356 | .B bash | |
357 | enters | |
358 | .I posix | |
359 | mode after the startup files are read. | |
360 | .PP | |
361 | When | |
362 | .B bash | |
363 | is started in | |
364 | .I posix | |
365 | mode, as with the | |
366 | .B \-\-posix | |
367 | command line option, it follows the POSIX standard for startup files. | |
cce855bc | 368 | In this mode, interactive shells expand the |
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369 | .SM |
370 | .B ENV | |
cce855bc | 371 | variable and commands are read and executed from the file |
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372 | whose name is the expanded value. |
373 | No other startup files are read. | |
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374 | .PP |
375 | .B Bash | |
376 | attempts to determine when it is being run by the remote shell | |
377 | daemon, usually \fIrshd\fP. | |
378 | If | |
379 | .B bash | |
380 | determines it is being run by \fIrshd\fP, it reads and executes | |
381 | commands from \fI~/.bashrc\fP, if that file exists and is readable. | |
382 | It will not do this if invoked as \fBsh\fP. | |
383 | The | |
384 | .B \-\-norc | |
385 | option may be used to inhibit this behavior, and the | |
386 | .B \-\-rcfile | |
387 | option may be used to force another file to be read, but | |
388 | \fIrshd\fP does not generally invoke the shell with those options | |
389 | or allow them to be specified. | |
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390 | .PP |
391 | If the shell is started with the effective user (group) id not equal to the | |
392 | real user (group) id, and the \fB\-p\fP option is not supplied, no startup | |
393 | files are read, shell functions are not inherited from the environment, | |
394 | the \fBSHELLOPTS\fP variable, if it appears in the environment, is ignored, | |
395 | and the effective user id is set to the real user id. | |
396 | If the \fB\-p\fP option is supplied at invocation, the startup behavior is | |
397 | the same, but the effective user id is not reset. | |
726f6388 | 398 | .SH DEFINITIONS |
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399 | .PP |
400 | The following definitions are used throughout the rest of this | |
401 | document. | |
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402 | .PD 0 |
403 | .TP | |
404 | .B blank | |
405 | A space or tab. | |
406 | .TP | |
407 | .B word | |
408 | A sequence of characters considered as a single unit by the shell. | |
409 | Also known as a | |
410 | .BR token . | |
411 | .TP | |
412 | .B name | |
413 | A | |
414 | .I word | |
415 | consisting only of alphanumeric characters and underscores, and | |
416 | beginning with an alphabetic character or an underscore. Also | |
417 | referred to as an | |
418 | .BR identifier . | |
419 | .TP | |
420 | .B metacharacter | |
421 | A character that, when unquoted, separates words. One of the following: | |
422 | .br | |
423 | .RS | |
424 | .PP | |
425 | .if t \fB| & ; ( ) < > space tab\fP | |
426 | .if n \fB| & ; ( ) < > space tab\fP | |
427 | .RE | |
428 | .PP | |
429 | .TP | |
430 | .B control operator | |
431 | A \fItoken\fP that performs a control function. It is one of the following | |
432 | symbols: | |
433 | .RS | |
434 | .PP | |
ccc6cda3 | 435 | .if t \fB\(bv\(bv & && ; ;; ( ) | <newline>\fP |
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436 | .if n \fB|| & && ; ;; ( ) | <newline>\fP |
437 | .RE | |
438 | .PD | |
439 | .SH "RESERVED WORDS" | |
440 | \fIReserved words\fP are words that have a special meaning to the shell. | |
441 | The following words are recognized as reserved when unquoted and either | |
442 | the first word of a simple command (see | |
443 | .SM | |
444 | .B SHELL GRAMMAR | |
445 | below) or the third word of a | |
446 | .B case | |
447 | or | |
448 | .B for | |
449 | command: | |
450 | .if t .RS | |
451 | .PP | |
452 | .B | |
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453 | .if n ! case do done elif else esac fi for function if in select then until while { } time [[ ]] |
454 | .if t ! case do done elif else esac fi for function if in select then until while { } time [[ ]] | |
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455 | .if t .RE |
456 | .RE | |
457 | .SH "SHELL GRAMMAR" | |
458 | .SS Simple Commands | |
459 | .PP | |
460 | A \fIsimple command\fP is a sequence of optional variable assignments | |
ccc6cda3 | 461 | followed by \fBblank\fP-separated words and redirections, and |
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462 | terminated by a \fIcontrol operator\fP. The first word |
463 | specifies the command to be executed. The remaining words are | |
464 | passed as arguments to the invoked command. | |
465 | .PP | |
466 | The return value of a \fIsimple command\fP is its exit status, or | |
467 | 128+\fIn\^\fP if the command is terminated by signal | |
468 | .IR n . | |
469 | .SS Pipelines | |
470 | .PP | |
471 | A \fIpipeline\fP is a sequence of one or more commands separated by | |
472 | the character | |
473 | .BR | . | |
474 | The format for a pipeline is: | |
475 | .RS | |
476 | .PP | |
ccc6cda3 | 477 | [\fBtime\fP [\fB\-p\fP]] [ ! ] \fIcommand\fP [ \fB|\fP \fIcommand2\fP ... ] |
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478 | .RE |
479 | .PP | |
480 | The standard output of | |
481 | .I command | |
482 | is connected to the standard input of | |
483 | .IR command2 . | |
484 | This connection is performed before any redirections specified by the | |
485 | command (see | |
486 | .SM | |
487 | .B REDIRECTION | |
488 | below). | |
489 | .PP | |
490 | If the reserved word | |
491 | .B ! | |
492 | precedes a pipeline, the exit status of that | |
493 | pipeline is the logical NOT of the exit status of the last command. | |
494 | Otherwise, the status of the pipeline is the exit status of the last | |
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495 | command. |
496 | The shell waits for all commands in the pipeline to | |
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497 | terminate before returning a value. |
498 | .PP | |
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499 | If the |
500 | .B time | |
501 | reserved word precedes a pipeline, the elapsed as well as user and | |
502 | system time consumed by its execution are reported when the pipeline | |
503 | terminates. | |
504 | The \fB\-p\fP option changes the output format to that specified by POSIX. | |
505 | The | |
506 | .SM | |
507 | .B TIMEFORMAT | |
508 | variable may be set to a format string that specifies how the timing | |
509 | information should be displayed; see the description of | |
510 | .SM | |
511 | .B TIMEFORMAT | |
512 | under | |
513 | .B "Shell Variables" | |
514 | below. | |
515 | .PP | |
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516 | Each command in a pipeline is executed as a separate process (i.e., in a |
517 | subshell). | |
518 | .SS Lists | |
519 | .PP | |
520 | A \fIlist\fP is a sequence of one or more pipelines separated by one | |
521 | of the operators | |
522 | .BR ; , | |
523 | .BR & , | |
524 | .BR && , | |
525 | or | |
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526 | .BR \(bv\(bv , |
527 | and optionally terminated by one of | |
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528 | .BR ; , |
529 | .BR & , | |
530 | or | |
531 | .BR <newline> . | |
532 | .PP | |
533 | Of these list operators, | |
534 | .B && | |
535 | and | |
ccc6cda3 | 536 | .B \(bv\(bv |
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537 | have equal precedence, followed by |
538 | .B ; | |
539 | and | |
540 | .BR &, | |
541 | which have equal precedence. | |
542 | .PP | |
543 | If a command is terminated by the control operator | |
544 | .BR & , | |
545 | the shell executes the command in the \fIbackground\fP | |
546 | in a subshell. The shell does not wait for the command to | |
547 | finish, and the return status is 0. Commands separated by a | |
548 | .B ; | |
549 | are executed sequentially; the shell waits for each | |
550 | command to terminate in turn. The return status is the | |
551 | exit status of the last command executed. | |
552 | .PP | |
553 | The control operators | |
554 | .B && | |
555 | and | |
ccc6cda3 | 556 | .B \(bv\(bv |
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557 | denote AND lists and OR lists, respectively. |
558 | An AND list has the form | |
559 | .RS | |
560 | .PP | |
bb70624e | 561 | \fIcommand1\fP \fB&&\fP \fIcommand2\fP |
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562 | .RE |
563 | .PP | |
564 | .I command2 | |
565 | is executed if, and only if, | |
bb70624e | 566 | .I command1 |
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567 | returns an exit status of zero. |
568 | .PP | |
569 | An OR list has the form | |
570 | .RS | |
571 | .PP | |
bb70624e | 572 | \fIcommand1\fP \fB\(bv\(bv\fP \fIcommand2\fP |
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573 | .PP |
574 | .RE | |
575 | .PP | |
576 | .I command2 | |
577 | is executed if and only if | |
bb70624e | 578 | .I command1 |
ccc6cda3 | 579 | returns a non-zero exit status. The return status of |
726f6388 JA |
580 | AND and OR lists is the exit status of the last command |
581 | executed in the list. | |
582 | .SS Compound Commands | |
583 | .PP | |
584 | A \fIcompound command\fP is one of the following: | |
585 | .TP | |
586 | (\fIlist\fP) | |
587 | \fIlist\fP is executed in a subshell. Variable assignments and builtin | |
588 | commands that affect the shell's environment do not remain in effect | |
589 | after the command completes. The return status is the exit status of | |
590 | \fIlist\fP. | |
591 | .TP | |
592 | { \fIlist\fP; } | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
593 | \fIlist\fP is simply executed in the current shell environment. |
594 | \fIlist\fP must be terminated with a newline or semicolon. | |
595 | This is known as a \fIgroup command\fP. | |
596 | The return status is the exit status of | |
726f6388 JA |
597 | \fIlist\fP. |
598 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
599 | ((\fIexpression\fP)) |
600 | The \fIexpression\fP is evaluated according to the rules described | |
601 | below under | |
602 | .SM | |
603 | .BR "ARITHMETIC EVALUATION" . | |
604 | If the value of the expression is non-zero, the return status is 0; | |
605 | otherwise the return status is 1. This is exactly equivalent to | |
606 | \fBlet "\fIexpression\fP"\fR. | |
607 | .TP | |
cce855bc JA |
608 | \fB[[\fP \fIexpression\fP \fB]]\fP |
609 | Return a status of 0 or 1 depending on the evaluation of | |
610 | the conditional expression \fIexpression\fP. | |
611 | Expressions are composed of the primaries described below under | |
612 | .SM | |
613 | .BR "CONDITIONAL EXPRESSIONS" . | |
614 | Word splitting and pathname expansion are not performed on the words | |
615 | between the \fB[[\fP and \fB]]\fP; tilde expansion, parameter and | |
616 | variable expansion, arithmetic expansion, command substitution, process | |
617 | substitution, and quote removal are performed. | |
618 | .if t .sp 0.5 | |
619 | .if n .sp 1 | |
620 | When the \fB==\fP and \fB!=\fP operators are used, the string to the | |
621 | right of the operator is considered a pattern and matched according | |
622 | to the rules described below under \fBPattern Matching\fP. | |
623 | The return value is 0 if the string matches or does not match | |
624 | the pattern, respectively, and 1 otherwise. | |
625 | Any part of the pattern may be quoted to force it to be matched as a | |
626 | string. | |
627 | .if t .sp 0.5 | |
628 | .if n .sp 1 | |
629 | Expressions may be combined using the following operators, listed | |
630 | in decreasing order of precedence: | |
631 | .if t .sp 0.5 | |
632 | .if n .sp 1 | |
633 | .RS | |
634 | .PD 0 | |
635 | .TP | |
636 | .B ( \fIexpression\fP ) | |
637 | Returns the value of \fIexpression\fP. | |
638 | This may be used to override the normal precedence of operators. | |
639 | .TP | |
640 | .B ! \fIexpression\fP | |
641 | True if | |
642 | .I expression | |
643 | is false. | |
644 | .TP | |
645 | \fIexpression1\fP \fB&&\fP \fIexpression2\fP | |
646 | True if both | |
647 | .I expression1 | |
648 | and | |
649 | .I expression2 | |
650 | are true. | |
651 | .TP | |
652 | .if t \fIexpression1\fP \fB\(bv\(bv\fP \fIexpression2\fP | |
653 | .if n \fIexpression1\fP \fB||\fP \fIexpression2\fP | |
654 | True if either | |
655 | .I expression1 | |
656 | or | |
657 | .I expression2 | |
658 | is true. | |
659 | .PD | |
660 | .RE | |
661 | .LP | |
662 | The \fB&&\fP and | |
663 | .if t \fB\(bv\(bv\fP | |
664 | .if n \fB||\fP | |
665 | operators do not execute \fIexpression2\fP if the value of | |
666 | \fIexpression1\fP is sufficient to determine the return value of | |
667 | the entire conditional expression. | |
668 | .TP | |
b72432fd | 669 | \fBfor\fP \fIname\fP [ \fBin\fP \fIword\fP ] ; \fBdo\fP \fIlist\fP ; \fBdone\fP |
726f6388 | 670 | The list of words following \fBin\fP is expanded, generating a list |
bb70624e JA |
671 | of items. |
672 | The variable \fIname\fP is set to each element of this list | |
673 | in turn, and \fIlist\fP is executed each time. | |
674 | If the \fBin\fP \fIword\fP is omitted, the \fBfor\fP command executes | |
675 | \fIlist\fP once for each positional parameter that is set (see | |
726f6388 JA |
676 | .SM |
677 | .B PARAMETERS | |
678 | below). | |
cce855bc JA |
679 | The return status is the exit status of the last command that executes. |
680 | If the expansion of the items following \fBin\fP results in an empty | |
681 | list, no commands are executed, and the return status is 0. | |
726f6388 | 682 | .TP |
bb70624e JA |
683 | \fBfor\fP (( \fIexpr1\fP ; \fIexpr2\fP ; \fIexpr3\fP )) ; \fBdo\fP \fIlist\fP ; \fBdone\fP |
684 | First, the arithmetic expression \fIexpr1\fP is evaluated according | |
685 | to the rules described below under | |
686 | .SM | |
687 | .BR "ARITHMETIC EVALUATION" . | |
688 | The arithmetic expression \fIexpr2\fP is then evaluated repeatedly | |
689 | until it evaluates to zero. | |
690 | Each time \fIexpr2\fP evaluates to a non-zero value, \fIlist\fP is | |
691 | executed and the arithmetic expression \fIexpr3\fP is evaluated. | |
692 | If any expression is omitted, it behaves as if it evaluates to 1. | |
693 | The return value is the exit status of the last command in \fIlist\fP | |
694 | that is executed, or false if any of the expressions is invalid. | |
695 | .TP | |
b72432fd | 696 | \fBselect\fP \fIname\fP [ \fBin\fP \fIword\fP ] ; \fBdo\fP \fIlist\fP ; \fBdone\fP |
726f6388 JA |
697 | The list of words following \fBin\fP is expanded, generating a list |
698 | of items. The set of expanded words is printed on the standard | |
699 | error, each preceded by a number. If the \fBin\fP | |
700 | \fIword\fP is omitted, the positional parameters are printed (see | |
701 | .SM | |
702 | .B PARAMETERS | |
703 | below). The | |
704 | .B PS3 | |
705 | prompt is then displayed and a line read from the standard input. | |
ccc6cda3 | 706 | If the line consists of a number corresponding to one of |
726f6388 JA |
707 | the displayed words, then the value of |
708 | .I name | |
709 | is set to that word. If the line is empty, the words and prompt | |
710 | are displayed again. If EOF is read, the command completes. Any | |
711 | other value read causes | |
712 | .I name | |
713 | to be set to null. The line read is saved in the variable | |
714 | .BR REPLY . | |
715 | The | |
716 | .I list | |
717 | is executed after each selection until a | |
718 | .B break | |
719 | or | |
720 | .B return | |
721 | command is executed. | |
722 | The exit status of | |
723 | .B select | |
724 | is the exit status of the last command executed in | |
725 | .IR list , | |
726 | or zero if no commands were executed. | |
727 | .TP | |
bb70624e | 728 | \fBcase\fP \fIword\fP \fBin\fP [ [(] \fIpattern\fP [ \fB|\fP \fIpattern\fP ] \ |
726f6388 JA |
729 | ... ) \fIlist\fP ;; ] ... \fBesac\fP |
730 | A \fBcase\fP command first expands \fIword\fP, and tries to match | |
731 | it against each \fIpattern\fP in turn, using the same matching rules | |
732 | as for pathname expansion (see | |
733 | .B Pathname Expansion | |
734 | below). When a match is found, the | |
735 | corresponding \fIlist\fP is executed. After the first match, no | |
736 | subsequent matches are attempted. The exit status is zero if no | |
ccc6cda3 | 737 | pattern matches. Otherwise, it is the exit status of the |
726f6388 JA |
738 | last command executed in \fIlist\fP. |
739 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
740 | \fBif\fP \fIlist\fP; \fBthen\fP \fIlist;\fP \ |
741 | [ \fBelif\fP \fIlist\fP; \fBthen\fP \fIlist\fP; ] ... \ | |
742 | [ \fBelse\fP \fIlist\fP; ] \fBfi\fP | |
726f6388 JA |
743 | The |
744 | .B if | |
745 | .I list | |
746 | is executed. If its exit status is zero, the | |
747 | \fBthen\fP \fIlist\fP is executed. Otherwise, each \fBelif\fP | |
748 | \fIlist\fP is executed in turn, and if its exit status is zero, | |
749 | the corresponding \fBthen\fP \fIlist\fP is executed and the | |
750 | command completes. Otherwise, the \fBelse\fP \fIlist\fP is | |
751 | executed, if present. The exit status is the exit status of the | |
752 | last command executed, or zero if no condition tested true. | |
753 | .TP | |
754 | .PD 0 | |
ccc6cda3 | 755 | \fBwhile\fP \fIlist\fP; \fBdo\fP \fIlist\fP; \fBdone\fP |
726f6388 | 756 | .TP |
ccc6cda3 | 757 | \fBuntil\fP \fIlist\fP; \fBdo\fP \fIlist\fP; \fBdone\fP |
726f6388 JA |
758 | .PD |
759 | The \fBwhile\fP command continuously executes the \fBdo\fP | |
760 | \fIlist\fP as long as the last command in \fIlist\fP returns | |
761 | an exit status of zero. The \fBuntil\fP command is identical | |
762 | to the \fBwhile\fP command, except that the test is negated; | |
763 | the | |
764 | .B do | |
765 | .I list | |
766 | is executed as long as the last command in | |
767 | .I list | |
ccc6cda3 | 768 | returns a non-zero exit status. |
726f6388 JA |
769 | The exit status of the \fBwhile\fP and \fBuntil\fP commands |
770 | is the exit status | |
771 | of the last \fBdo\fP \fIlist\fP command executed, or zero if | |
772 | none was executed. | |
773 | .TP | |
774 | [ \fBfunction\fP ] \fIname\fP () { \fIlist\fP; } | |
775 | This defines a function named \fIname\fP. The \fIbody\fP of the | |
776 | function is the | |
777 | .I list | |
778 | of commands between { and }. This list | |
779 | is executed whenever \fIname\fP is specified as the | |
780 | name of a simple command. The exit status of a function is | |
781 | the exit status of the last command executed in the body. (See | |
782 | .SM | |
783 | .B FUNCTIONS | |
784 | below.) | |
785 | .SH COMMENTS | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
786 | In a non-interactive shell, or an interactive shell in which the |
787 | .B interactive_comments | |
788 | option to the | |
789 | .B shopt | |
790 | builtin is enabled (see | |
791 | .SM | |
792 | .B "SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS" | |
793 | below), a word beginning with | |
726f6388 JA |
794 | .B # |
795 | causes that word and all remaining characters on that line to | |
796 | be ignored. An interactive shell without the | |
ccc6cda3 | 797 | .B interactive_comments |
ccc6cda3 JA |
798 | option enabled does not allow comments. The |
799 | .B interactive_comments | |
800 | option is on by default in interactive shells. | |
726f6388 JA |
801 | .SH QUOTING |
802 | \fIQuoting\fP is used to remove the special meaning of certain | |
803 | characters or words to the shell. Quoting can be used to | |
804 | disable special treatment for special characters, to prevent | |
805 | reserved words from being recognized as such, and to prevent | |
806 | parameter expansion. | |
807 | .PP | |
808 | Each of the \fImetacharacters\fP listed above under | |
809 | .SM | |
810 | .B DEFINITIONS | |
bb70624e JA |
811 | has special meaning to the shell and must be quoted if it is to |
812 | represent itself. | |
813 | .PP | |
814 | When the command history expansion facilities are being used, the | |
815 | \fIhistory expansion\fP character, usually \fB!\fP, must be quoted | |
816 | to prevent history expansion. | |
817 | .PP | |
818 | There are three quoting mechanisms: the | |
726f6388 JA |
819 | .IR "escape character" , |
820 | single quotes, and double quotes. | |
821 | .PP | |
822 | A non-quoted backslash (\fB\e\fP) is the | |
823 | .IR "escape character" . | |
824 | It preserves the literal value of the next character that follows, | |
825 | with the exception of <newline>. If a \fB\e\fP<newline> pair | |
cce855bc JA |
826 | appears, and the backslash is not itself quoted, the \fB\e\fP<newline> |
827 | is treated as a line continuation (that is, it is removed from the | |
828 | input stream and effectively ignored). | |
726f6388 JA |
829 | .PP |
830 | Enclosing characters in single quotes preserves the literal value | |
831 | of each character within the quotes. A single quote may not occur | |
832 | between single quotes, even when preceded by a backslash. | |
833 | .PP | |
834 | Enclosing characters in double quotes preserves the literal value | |
835 | of all characters within the quotes, with the exception of | |
836 | .BR $ , | |
837 | .BR ` , | |
838 | and | |
839 | .BR \e . | |
840 | The characters | |
841 | .B $ | |
842 | and | |
843 | .B ` | |
844 | retain their special meaning within double quotes. The backslash | |
845 | retains its special meaning only when followed by one of the following | |
846 | characters: | |
847 | .BR $ , | |
848 | .BR ` , | |
849 | \^\fB"\fP\^, | |
850 | .BR \e , | |
851 | or | |
852 | .BR <newline> . | |
853 | A double quote may be quoted within double quotes by preceding it with | |
854 | a backslash. | |
855 | .PP | |
856 | The special parameters | |
857 | .B * | |
858 | and | |
859 | .B @ | |
860 | have special meaning when in double | |
861 | quotes (see | |
862 | .SM | |
863 | .B PARAMETERS | |
864 | below). | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
865 | .PP |
866 | Words of the form \fB$\fP'\fIstring\fP' are treated specially. The | |
867 | word expands to \fIstring\fP, with backslash-escaped characters replaced | |
868 | as specifed by the ANSI C standard. Backslash escape sequences, if | |
869 | present, are decoded as follows: | |
870 | .RS | |
871 | .PD 0 | |
872 | .TP | |
873 | .B \ea | |
874 | alert (bell) | |
875 | .TP | |
876 | .B \eb | |
877 | backspace | |
878 | .TP | |
879 | .B \ee | |
880 | an escape character | |
881 | .TP | |
882 | .B \ef | |
883 | form feed | |
884 | .TP | |
885 | .B \en | |
886 | new line | |
887 | .TP | |
888 | .B \er | |
889 | carriage return | |
890 | .TP | |
891 | .B \et | |
892 | horizontal tab | |
893 | .TP | |
894 | .B \ev | |
895 | vertical tab | |
896 | .TP | |
897 | .B \e\e | |
898 | backslash | |
bb70624e JA |
899 | .TP |
900 | .B \e' | |
901 | single quote | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
902 | .TP |
903 | .B \e\fInnn\fP | |
cce855bc JA |
904 | the character whose ASCII code is the octal value \fInnn\fP |
905 | (one to three digits) | |
906 | .TP | |
907 | .B \ex\fInnn\fP | |
908 | the character whose ASCII code is the hexadecimal value \fInnn\fP | |
909 | (one to three digits) | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
910 | .PD |
911 | .RE | |
912 | .LP | |
bb70624e | 913 | The expanded result is single-quoted, as if the dollar sign had |
ccc6cda3 JA |
914 | not been present. |
915 | .PP | |
916 | A double-quoted string preceded by a dollar sign (\fB$\fP) will cause | |
917 | the string to be translated according to the current locale. | |
918 | If the current locale is \fBC\fP or \fBPOSIX\fP, the dollar sign | |
919 | is ignored. | |
920 | If the string is translated and replaced, the replacement is | |
921 | double-quoted. | |
726f6388 JA |
922 | .SH PARAMETERS |
923 | A | |
924 | .I parameter | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
925 | is an entity that stores values. |
926 | It can be a | |
726f6388 JA |
927 | .IR name , |
928 | a number, or one of the special characters listed below under | |
929 | .BR "Special Parameters" . | |
930 | For the shell's purposes, a | |
931 | .I variable | |
932 | is a parameter denoted by a | |
933 | .IR name . | |
934 | .PP | |
935 | A parameter is set if it has been assigned a value. The null string is | |
936 | a valid value. Once a variable is set, it may be unset only by using | |
937 | the | |
938 | .B unset | |
939 | builtin command (see | |
940 | .SM | |
941 | .B SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS | |
942 | below). | |
943 | .PP | |
944 | A | |
945 | .I variable | |
946 | may be assigned to by a statement of the form | |
947 | .RS | |
948 | .PP | |
949 | \fIname\fP=[\fIvalue\fP] | |
950 | .RE | |
951 | .PP | |
952 | If | |
953 | .I value | |
954 | is not given, the variable is assigned the null string. All | |
955 | .I values | |
bb70624e JA |
956 | undergo tilde expansion, parameter and variable expansion, |
957 | command substitution, arithmetic expansion, and quote | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
958 | removal (see |
959 | .SM | |
960 | .B EXPANSION | |
961 | below). If the variable has its | |
cce855bc | 962 | .B integer |
726f6388 JA |
963 | attribute set (see |
964 | .B declare | |
965 | below in | |
966 | .SM | |
967 | .BR "SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS" ) | |
968 | then | |
969 | .I value | |
cce855bc JA |
970 | is subject to arithmetic expansion even if the $((...)) expansion is |
971 | not used (see | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
972 | .B "Arithmetic Expansion" |
973 | below). | |
974 | Word splitting is not performed, with the exception | |
726f6388 JA |
975 | of \fB"$@"\fP as explained below under |
976 | .BR "Special Parameters" . | |
977 | Pathname expansion is not performed. | |
978 | .SS Positional Parameters | |
979 | .PP | |
980 | A | |
981 | .I positional parameter | |
982 | is a parameter denoted by one or more | |
983 | digits, other than the single digit 0. Positional parameters are | |
984 | assigned from the shell's arguments when it is invoked, | |
985 | and may be reassigned using the | |
986 | .B set | |
987 | builtin command. Positional parameters may not be assigned to | |
988 | with assignment statements. The positional parameters are | |
989 | temporarily replaced when a shell function is executed (see | |
990 | .SM | |
991 | .B FUNCTIONS | |
992 | below). | |
993 | .PP | |
994 | When a positional parameter consisting of more than a single | |
995 | digit is expanded, it must be enclosed in braces (see | |
996 | .SM | |
997 | .B EXPANSION | |
998 | below). | |
999 | .SS Special Parameters | |
1000 | .PP | |
1001 | The shell treats several parameters specially. These parameters may | |
1002 | only be referenced; assignment to them is not allowed. | |
1003 | .PD 0 | |
1004 | .TP | |
1005 | .B * | |
1006 | Expands to the positional parameters, starting from one. When the | |
1007 | expansion occurs within double quotes, it expands to a single word | |
1008 | with the value of each parameter separated by the first character | |
1009 | of the | |
1010 | .SM | |
1011 | .B IFS | |
cce855bc JA |
1012 | special variable. That is, "\fB$*\fP" is equivalent |
1013 | to "\fB$1\fP\fIc\fP\fB$2\fP\fIc\fP\fB...\fP", where | |
726f6388 JA |
1014 | .I c |
1015 | is the first character of the value of the | |
1016 | .SM | |
1017 | .B IFS | |
1018 | variable. If | |
1019 | .SM | |
1020 | .B IFS | |
d166f048 JA |
1021 | is unset, the parameters are separated by spaces. |
1022 | If | |
1023 | .SM | |
1024 | .B IFS | |
1025 | is null, the parameters are joined without intervening separators. | |
726f6388 JA |
1026 | .TP |
1027 | .B @ | |
1028 | Expands to the positional parameters, starting from one. When the | |
cce855bc JA |
1029 | expansion occurs within double quotes, each parameter expands to a |
1030 | separate word. That is, "\fB$@\fP" is equivalent to | |
1031 | "\fB$1\fP" "\fB$2\fP" ... | |
1032 | When there are no positional parameters, "\fB$@\fP" and | |
726f6388 JA |
1033 | .B $@ |
1034 | expand to nothing (i.e., they are removed). | |
1035 | .TP | |
1036 | .B # | |
1037 | Expands to the number of positional parameters in decimal. | |
1038 | .TP | |
1039 | .B ? | |
1040 | Expands to the status of the most recently executed foreground | |
1041 | pipeline. | |
1042 | .TP | |
1043 | .B \- | |
1044 | Expands to the current option flags as specified upon invocation, | |
1045 | by the | |
1046 | .B set | |
1047 | builtin command, or those set by the shell itself | |
1048 | (such as the | |
1049 | .B \-i | |
cce855bc | 1050 | option). |
726f6388 JA |
1051 | .TP |
1052 | .B $ | |
1053 | Expands to the process ID of the shell. In a () subshell, it | |
1054 | expands to the process ID of the current shell, not the | |
1055 | subshell. | |
1056 | .TP | |
1057 | .B ! | |
1058 | Expands to the process ID of the most recently executed background | |
1059 | (asynchronous) command. | |
1060 | .TP | |
1061 | .B 0 | |
1062 | Expands to the name of the shell or shell script. This is set at | |
1063 | shell initialization. If | |
1064 | .B bash | |
1065 | is invoked with a file of commands, | |
1066 | .B $0 | |
1067 | is set to the name of that file. If | |
1068 | .B bash | |
1069 | is started with the | |
1070 | .B \-c | |
1071 | option, then | |
1072 | .B $0 | |
1073 | is set to the first argument after the string to be | |
1074 | executed, if one is present. Otherwise, it is set | |
ccc6cda3 | 1075 | to the file name used to invoke |
726f6388 JA |
1076 | .BR bash , |
1077 | as given by argument zero. | |
1078 | .TP | |
1079 | .B _ | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
1080 | At shell startup, set to the absolute file name of the shell or shell |
1081 | script being executed as passed in the argument list. | |
1082 | Subsequently, expands to the last argument to the previous command, | |
1083 | after expansion. | |
1084 | Also set to the full file name of each command executed and placed in | |
726f6388 | 1085 | the environment exported to that command. |
ccc6cda3 JA |
1086 | When checking mail, this parameter holds the name of the mail file |
1087 | currently being checked. | |
726f6388 JA |
1088 | .PD |
1089 | .SS Shell Variables | |
1090 | .PP | |
1091 | The following variables are set by the shell: | |
1092 | .PP | |
1093 | .PD 0 | |
1094 | .TP | |
1095 | .B PPID | |
cce855bc | 1096 | The process ID of the shell's parent. This variable is readonly. |
726f6388 JA |
1097 | .TP |
1098 | .B PWD | |
1099 | The current working directory as set by the | |
1100 | .B cd | |
1101 | command. | |
1102 | .TP | |
1103 | .B OLDPWD | |
1104 | The previous working directory as set by the | |
1105 | .B cd | |
1106 | command. | |
1107 | .TP | |
1108 | .B REPLY | |
1109 | Set to the line of input read by the | |
1110 | .B read | |
1111 | builtin command when no arguments are supplied. | |
1112 | .TP | |
1113 | .B UID | |
1114 | Expands to the user ID of the current user, initialized at shell startup. | |
cce855bc | 1115 | This variable is readonly. |
726f6388 JA |
1116 | .TP |
1117 | .B EUID | |
1118 | Expands to the effective user ID of the current user, initialized at | |
cce855bc | 1119 | shell startup. This variable is readonly. |
726f6388 | 1120 | .TP |
d166f048 JA |
1121 | .B GROUPS |
1122 | An array variable containing the list of groups of which the current | |
bb70624e JA |
1123 | user is a member. |
1124 | Assignments to | |
1125 | .SM | |
1126 | .B GROUPS | |
28ef6c31 | 1127 | have no effect and return an error status. |
bb70624e JA |
1128 | If |
1129 | .SM | |
1130 | .B GROUPS | |
1131 | is unset, it loses its special properties, even if it is | |
1132 | subsequently reset. | |
d166f048 | 1133 | .TP |
726f6388 | 1134 | .B BASH |
ccc6cda3 | 1135 | Expands to the full file name used to invoke this instance of |
726f6388 JA |
1136 | .BR bash . |
1137 | .TP | |
1138 | .B BASH_VERSION | |
ccc6cda3 | 1139 | Expands to a string describing the version of this instance of |
726f6388 JA |
1140 | .BR bash . |
1141 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 | 1142 | .B BASH_VERSINFO |
cce855bc JA |
1143 | A readonly array variable whose members hold version information for |
1144 | this instance of | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
1145 | .BR bash . |
1146 | The values assigned to the array members are as follows: | |
1147 | .sp .5 | |
1148 | .RS | |
1149 | .PD 0 | |
1150 | .TP 24 | |
1151 | .B BASH_VERSINFO[\fR0\fP] | |
1152 | The major version number (the \fIrelease\fP). | |
1153 | .TP | |
1154 | .B BASH_VERSINFO[\fR1\fP] | |
1155 | The minor version number (the \fIversion\fP). | |
1156 | .TP | |
1157 | .B BASH_VERSINFO[\fR2\fP] | |
1158 | The patch level. | |
1159 | .TP | |
1160 | .B BASH_VERSINFO[\fR3\fP] | |
1161 | The build version. | |
1162 | .TP | |
1163 | .B BASH_VERSINFO[\fR4\fP] | |
1164 | The release status (e.g., \fIbeta1\fP). | |
1165 | .TP | |
1166 | .B BASH_VERSINFO[\fR5\fP] | |
1167 | The value of \fBMACHTYPE\fP. | |
1168 | .PD | |
1169 | .RE | |
1170 | .TP | |
726f6388 JA |
1171 | .B SHLVL |
1172 | Incremented by one each time an instance of | |
1173 | .B bash | |
1174 | is started. | |
1175 | .TP | |
1176 | .B RANDOM | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
1177 | Each time this parameter is referenced, a random integer between |
1178 | 0 and 32767 is | |
726f6388 JA |
1179 | generated. The sequence of random numbers may be initialized by assigning |
1180 | a value to | |
1181 | .SM | |
1182 | .BR RANDOM . | |
1183 | If | |
1184 | .SM | |
1185 | .B RANDOM | |
1186 | is unset, it loses its special properties, even if it is | |
1187 | subsequently reset. | |
1188 | .TP | |
1189 | .B SECONDS | |
1190 | Each time this parameter is | |
1191 | referenced, the number of seconds since shell invocation is returned. If a | |
1192 | value is assigned to | |
1193 | .SM | |
1194 | .BR SECONDS , | |
1195 | the value returned upon subsequent | |
1196 | references is | |
1197 | the number of seconds since the assignment plus the value assigned. | |
1198 | If | |
1199 | .SM | |
1200 | .B SECONDS | |
1201 | is unset, it loses its special properties, even if it is | |
1202 | subsequently reset. | |
1203 | .TP | |
1204 | .B LINENO | |
1205 | Each time this parameter is referenced, the shell substitutes | |
1206 | a decimal number representing the current sequential line number | |
1207 | (starting with 1) within a script or function. When not in a | |
1208 | script or function, the value substituted is not guaranteed to | |
ccc6cda3 | 1209 | be meaningful. |
726f6388 JA |
1210 | If |
1211 | .SM | |
1212 | .B LINENO | |
1213 | is unset, it loses its special properties, even if it is | |
1214 | subsequently reset. | |
1215 | .TP | |
1216 | .B HISTCMD | |
1217 | The history number, or index in the history list, of the current | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
1218 | command. |
1219 | If | |
726f6388 JA |
1220 | .SM |
1221 | .B HISTCMD | |
1222 | is unset, it loses its special properties, even if it is | |
1223 | subsequently reset. | |
1224 | .TP | |
bb70624e JA |
1225 | .B FUNCNAME |
1226 | The name of any currently-executing shell function. | |
1227 | This variable exists only when a shell function is executing. | |
1228 | Assignments to | |
1229 | .SM | |
1230 | .B FUNCNAME | |
28ef6c31 | 1231 | have no effect and return an error status. |
bb70624e JA |
1232 | If |
1233 | .SM | |
1234 | .B FUNCNAME | |
1235 | is unset, it loses its special properties, even if it is | |
1236 | subsequently reset. | |
1237 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
1238 | .B DIRSTACK |
1239 | An array variable (see | |
1240 | .B Arrays | |
1241 | below) containing the current contents of the directory stack. | |
1242 | Directories appear in the stack in the order they are displayed by the | |
1243 | .B dirs | |
1244 | builtin. | |
1245 | Assigning to members of this array variable may be used to modify | |
1246 | directories already in the stack, but the | |
1247 | .B pushd | |
1248 | and | |
1249 | .B popd | |
1250 | builtins must be used to add and remove directories. | |
1251 | Assignment to this variable will not change the current directory. | |
1252 | If | |
1253 | .SM | |
1254 | .B DIRSTACK | |
1255 | is unset, it loses its special properties, even if it is | |
1256 | subsequently reset. | |
1257 | .TP | |
1258 | .B PIPESTATUS | |
1259 | An array variable (see | |
1260 | .B Arrays | |
1261 | below) containing a list of exit status values from the processes | |
1262 | in the most-recently-executed foreground pipeline (which may | |
1263 | contain only a single command). | |
1264 | .TP | |
726f6388 JA |
1265 | .B OPTARG |
1266 | The value of the last option argument processed by the | |
1267 | .B getopts | |
1268 | builtin command (see | |
1269 | .SM | |
1270 | .B SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS | |
1271 | below). | |
1272 | .TP | |
1273 | .B OPTIND | |
1274 | The index of the next argument to be processed by the | |
1275 | .B getopts | |
1276 | builtin command (see | |
1277 | .SM | |
1278 | .B SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS | |
1279 | below). | |
1280 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
1281 | .B HOSTNAME |
1282 | Automatically set to the name of the current host. | |
1283 | .TP | |
726f6388 JA |
1284 | .B HOSTTYPE |
1285 | Automatically set to a string that uniquely | |
1286 | describes the type of machine on which | |
1287 | .B bash | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
1288 | is executing. |
1289 | The default is system-dependent. | |
726f6388 JA |
1290 | .TP |
1291 | .B OSTYPE | |
1292 | Automatically set to a string that | |
1293 | describes the operating system on which | |
1294 | .B bash | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
1295 | is executing. |
1296 | The default is system-dependent. | |
1297 | .TP | |
1298 | .B MACHTYPE | |
1299 | Automatically set to a string that fully describes the system | |
1300 | type on which | |
1301 | .B bash | |
1302 | is executing, in the standard GNU \fIcpu-company-system\fP format. | |
1303 | The default is system-dependent. | |
1304 | .TP | |
1305 | .B SHELLOPTS | |
1306 | A colon-separated list of enabled shell options. Each word in | |
1307 | the list is a valid argument for the | |
1308 | .B \-o | |
1309 | option to the | |
1310 | .B set | |
1311 | builtin command (see | |
1312 | .SM | |
1313 | .B "SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS" | |
1314 | below). The options appearing in | |
1315 | .SM | |
1316 | .B SHELLOPTS | |
1317 | are those reported as | |
1318 | .I on | |
1319 | by \fBset \-o\fP. | |
1320 | If this variable is in the environment when | |
1321 | .B bash | |
1322 | starts up, each shell option in the list will be enabled before | |
1323 | reading any startup files. | |
1324 | This variable is read-only. | |
bb70624e JA |
1325 | .TP |
1326 | .B COMP_WORDS | |
1327 | An array variable (see \fBArrays\fP below) consisting of the individual | |
1328 | words in the current command line. | |
1329 | This variable is available only in shell functions invoked by the | |
1330 | programmable completion facilities (see \fBProgrammable Completion\fP | |
1331 | below). | |
1332 | .TP | |
1333 | .B COMP_CWORD | |
1334 | An index into \fB${COMP_WORDS}\fP of the word containing the current | |
1335 | cursor position. | |
1336 | This variable is available only in shell functions invoked by the | |
1337 | programmable completion facilities (see \fBProgrammable Completion\fP | |
1338 | below). | |
1339 | .TP | |
1340 | .B COMP_LINE | |
1341 | The current command line. | |
1342 | This variable is available only in shell functions and external | |
1343 | commands invoked by the | |
1344 | programmable completion facilities (see \fBProgrammable Completion\fP | |
1345 | below). | |
1346 | .TP | |
1347 | .B COMP_POINT | |
1348 | The index of the current cursor position relative to the beginning of | |
1349 | the current command. | |
1350 | If the current cursor position is at the end of the current command, | |
1351 | the value of this variable is equal to \fB${#COMP_LINE}\fP. | |
1352 | This variable is available only in shell functions and external | |
1353 | commands invoked by the | |
1354 | programmable completion facilities (see \fBProgrammable Completion\fP | |
1355 | below). | |
726f6388 JA |
1356 | .PD |
1357 | .PP | |
1358 | The following variables are used by the shell. In some cases, | |
1359 | .B bash | |
1360 | assigns a default value to a variable; these cases are noted | |
1361 | below. | |
1362 | .PP | |
1363 | .PD 0 | |
1364 | .TP | |
1365 | .B IFS | |
1366 | The | |
1367 | .I Internal Field Separator | |
1368 | that is used | |
1369 | for word splitting after expansion and to | |
1370 | split lines into words with the | |
1371 | .B read | |
1372 | builtin command. The default value is | |
1373 | ``<space><tab><newline>''. | |
1374 | .TP | |
1375 | .B PATH | |
1376 | The search path for commands. It | |
1377 | is a colon-separated list of directories in which | |
1378 | the shell looks for commands (see | |
1379 | .SM | |
1380 | .B COMMAND EXECUTION | |
ccc6cda3 | 1381 | below). The default path is system-dependent, |
726f6388 JA |
1382 | and is set by the administrator who installs |
1383 | .BR bash . | |
28ef6c31 JA |
1384 | A common value is |
1385 | .if t \f(CW/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:.\fP. | |
1386 | .if n ``/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:.''. | |
726f6388 JA |
1387 | .TP |
1388 | .B HOME | |
1389 | The home directory of the current user; the default argument for the | |
1390 | \fBcd\fP builtin command. | |
cce855bc | 1391 | The value of this variable is also used when performing tilde expansion. |
726f6388 JA |
1392 | .TP |
1393 | .B CDPATH | |
1394 | The search path for the | |
1395 | .B cd | |
cce855bc JA |
1396 | command. |
1397 | This is a colon-separated list of directories in which the shell looks | |
1398 | for destination directories specified by the | |
726f6388 | 1399 | .B cd |
cce855bc JA |
1400 | command. |
1401 | A sample value is ``.:~:/usr''. | |
726f6388 | 1402 | .TP |
d166f048 | 1403 | .B BASH_ENV |
726f6388 JA |
1404 | If this parameter is set when \fBbash\fP is executing a shell script, |
1405 | its value is interpreted as a filename containing commands to | |
1406 | initialize the shell, as in | |
cce855bc | 1407 | .IR ~/.bashrc . |
726f6388 JA |
1408 | The value of |
1409 | .SM | |
d166f048 | 1410 | .B BASH_ENV |
726f6388 | 1411 | is subjected to parameter expansion, command substitution, and arithmetic |
ccc6cda3 | 1412 | expansion before being interpreted as a file name. |
726f6388 JA |
1413 | .SM |
1414 | .B PATH | |
ccc6cda3 | 1415 | is not used to search for the resultant file name. |
726f6388 JA |
1416 | .TP |
1417 | .B MAIL | |
ccc6cda3 | 1418 | If this parameter is set to a file name and the |
726f6388 JA |
1419 | .SM |
1420 | .B MAILPATH | |
1421 | variable is not set, | |
1422 | .B bash | |
1423 | informs the user of the arrival of mail in the specified file. | |
1424 | .TP | |
1425 | .B MAILCHECK | |
1426 | Specifies how | |
1427 | often (in seconds) | |
1428 | .B bash | |
1429 | checks for mail. The default is 60 seconds. When it is time to check | |
ccc6cda3 | 1430 | for mail, the shell does so before displaying the primary prompt. |
28ef6c31 JA |
1431 | If this variable is unset, or set to a value that is not a number |
1432 | greater than or equal to zero, the shell disables mail checking. | |
726f6388 JA |
1433 | .TP |
1434 | .B MAILPATH | |
ccc6cda3 | 1435 | A colon-separated list of file names to be checked for mail. |
cce855bc JA |
1436 | The message to be printed when mail arrives in a particular file |
1437 | may be specified by separating the file name from the message with a `?'. | |
1438 | When used in the text of the message, \fB$_\fP expands to the name of | |
1439 | the current mailfile. | |
726f6388 JA |
1440 | Example: |
1441 | .RS | |
1442 | .PP | |
bb70624e | 1443 | \fBMAILPATH\fP='/var/mail/bfox?"You have mail":~/shell\-mail?"$_ has mail!"' |
726f6388 JA |
1444 | .PP |
1445 | .B Bash | |
1446 | supplies a default value for this variable, but the location of the user | |
bb70624e | 1447 | mail files that it uses is system dependent (e.g., /var/mail/\fB$USER\fP). |
726f6388 JA |
1448 | .RE |
1449 | .TP | |
726f6388 JA |
1450 | .B PS1 |
1451 | The value of this parameter is expanded (see | |
1452 | .SM | |
1453 | .B PROMPTING | |
1454 | below) and used as the primary prompt string. The default value is | |
ccc6cda3 | 1455 | ``\fB\es\-\ev\e$ \fP''. |
726f6388 JA |
1456 | .TP |
1457 | .B PS2 | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
1458 | The value of this parameter is expanded as with |
1459 | .B PS1 | |
726f6388 JA |
1460 | and used as the secondary prompt string. The default is |
1461 | ``\fB> \fP''. | |
1462 | .TP | |
1463 | .B PS3 | |
1464 | The value of this parameter is used as the prompt for the | |
ccc6cda3 | 1465 | .B select |
726f6388 JA |
1466 | command (see |
1467 | .SM | |
1468 | .B SHELL GRAMMAR | |
1469 | above). | |
1470 | .TP | |
1471 | .B PS4 | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
1472 | The value of this parameter is expanded as with |
1473 | .B PS1 | |
726f6388 JA |
1474 | and the value is printed before each command |
1475 | .B bash | |
1476 | displays during an execution trace. The first character of | |
1477 | .SM | |
1478 | .B PS4 | |
1479 | is replicated multiple times, as necessary, to indicate multiple | |
1480 | levels of indirection. The default is ``\fB+ \fP''. | |
1481 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
1482 | .B TIMEFORMAT |
1483 | The value of this parameter is used as a format string specifying | |
1484 | how the timing information for pipelines prefixed with the | |
1485 | .B time | |
1486 | reserved word should be displayed. | |
1487 | The \fB%\fP character introduces an escape sequence that is | |
1488 | expanded to a time value or other information. | |
1489 | The escape sequences and their meanings are as follows; the | |
1490 | braces denote optional portions. | |
1491 | .sp .5 | |
1492 | .RS | |
1493 | .PD 0 | |
1494 | .TP 10 | |
1495 | .B %% | |
1496 | A literal \fB%\fP. | |
1497 | .TP | |
1498 | .B %[\fIp\fP][l]R | |
1499 | The elapsed time in seconds. | |
1500 | .TP | |
1501 | .B %[\fIp\fP][l]U | |
1502 | The number of CPU seconds spent in user mode. | |
1503 | .TP | |
1504 | .B %[\fIp\fP][l]S | |
1505 | The number of CPU seconds spent in system mode. | |
1506 | .TP | |
1507 | .B %P | |
1508 | The CPU percentage, computed as (%U + %S) / %R. | |
1509 | .PD | |
1510 | .RE | |
1511 | .IP | |
1512 | The optional \fIp\fP is a digit specifying the \fIprecision\fP, | |
1513 | the number of fractional digits after a decimal point. | |
1514 | A value of 0 causes no decimal point or fraction to be output. | |
1515 | At most three places after the decimal point may be specified; | |
1516 | values of \fIp\fP greater than 3 are changed to 3. | |
1517 | If \fIp\fP is not specified, the value 3 is used. | |
1518 | .IP | |
1519 | The optional \fBl\fP specifies a longer format, including | |
1520 | minutes, of the form \fIMM\fPm\fISS\fP.\fIFF\fPs. | |
1521 | The value of \fIp\fP determines whether or not the fraction is | |
1522 | included. | |
1523 | .IP | |
1524 | If this variable is not set, \fBbash\fP acts as if it had the | |
1525 | value \fB$'\enreal\et%3lR\enuser\et%3lU\ensys\t%3lS'\fP. | |
1526 | If the value is null, no timing information is displayed. | |
1527 | A trailing newline is added when the format string is displayed. | |
1528 | .TP | |
726f6388 JA |
1529 | .B HISTSIZE |
1530 | The number of commands to remember in the command history (see | |
1531 | .SM | |
1532 | .B HISTORY | |
1533 | below). The default value is 500. | |
1534 | .TP | |
1535 | .B HISTFILE | |
ccc6cda3 | 1536 | The name of the file in which command history is saved (see |
726f6388 JA |
1537 | .SM |
1538 | .B HISTORY | |
ccc6cda3 | 1539 | below). The default value is \fI~/.bash_history\fP. If unset, the |
726f6388 JA |
1540 | command history is not saved when an interactive shell exits. |
1541 | .TP | |
1542 | .B HISTFILESIZE | |
1543 | The maximum number of lines contained in the history file. When this | |
1544 | variable is assigned a value, the history file is truncated, if | |
1545 | necessary, to contain no more than that number of lines. The default | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
1546 | value is 500. The history file is also truncated to this size after |
1547 | writing it when an interactive shell exits. | |
726f6388 JA |
1548 | .TP |
1549 | .B OPTERR | |
1550 | If set to the value 1, | |
1551 | .B bash | |
1552 | displays error messages generated by the | |
1553 | .B getopts | |
1554 | builtin command (see | |
1555 | .SM | |
1556 | .B SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS | |
1557 | below). | |
1558 | .SM | |
1559 | .B OPTERR | |
1560 | is initialized to 1 each time the shell is invoked or a shell | |
1561 | script is executed. | |
1562 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
1563 | .B LANG |
1564 | Used to determine the locale category for any category not specifically | |
1565 | selected with a variable starting with \fBLC_\fP. | |
1566 | .TP | |
1567 | .B LC_ALL | |
1568 | This variable overrides the value of \fBLANG\fP and any other | |
1569 | \fBLC_\fP variable specifying a locale category. | |
1570 | .TP | |
1571 | .B LC_COLLATE | |
1572 | This variable determines the collation order used when sorting the | |
cce855bc JA |
1573 | results of pathname expansion, and determines the behavior of range |
1574 | expressions, equivalence classes, and collating sequences within | |
1575 | pathname expansion and pattern matching. | |
1576 | .TP | |
1577 | .B LC_CTYPE | |
1578 | This variable determines the interpretation of characters and the | |
1579 | behavior of character classes within pathname expansion and pattern | |
1580 | matching. | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
1581 | .TP |
1582 | .B LC_MESSAGES | |
1583 | This variable determines the locale used to translate double-quoted | |
1584 | strings preceded by a \fB$\fP. | |
1585 | .TP | |
bb70624e JA |
1586 | .B LC_NUMERIC |
1587 | This variable determines the locale category used for number formatting. | |
1588 | .TP | |
28ef6c31 JA |
1589 | .B LINES |
1590 | Used by the \fBselect\fP builtin command to determine the column length | |
1591 | for printing selection lists. Automatically set upon receipt of a SIGWINCH. | |
1592 | .TP | |
1593 | .B COLUMNS | |
1594 | Used by the \fBselect\fP builtin command to determine the terminal width | |
1595 | when printing selection lists. Automatically set upon receipt of a SIGWINCH. | |
1596 | .TP | |
726f6388 JA |
1597 | .B PROMPT_COMMAND |
1598 | If set, the value is executed as a command prior to issuing each primary | |
1599 | prompt. | |
1600 | .TP | |
1601 | .B IGNOREEOF | |
1602 | Controls the | |
ccc6cda3 | 1603 | action of an interactive shell on receipt of an |
726f6388 JA |
1604 | .SM |
1605 | .B EOF | |
1606 | character as the sole input. If set, the value is the number of | |
1607 | consecutive | |
1608 | .SM | |
1609 | .B EOF | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
1610 | characters which must be |
1611 | typed as the first characters on an input line before | |
726f6388 JA |
1612 | .B bash |
1613 | exits. If the variable exists but does not have a numeric value, or | |
1614 | has no value, the default value is 10. If it does not exist, | |
1615 | .SM | |
1616 | .B EOF | |
ccc6cda3 | 1617 | signifies the end of input to the shell. |
726f6388 JA |
1618 | .TP |
1619 | .B TMOUT | |
1620 | If set to a value greater than zero, the value is interpreted as the | |
1621 | number of seconds to wait for input after issuing the primary prompt. | |
1622 | .B Bash | |
1623 | terminates after waiting for that number of seconds if input does | |
1624 | not arrive. | |
1625 | .TP | |
1626 | .B FCEDIT | |
1627 | The default editor for the | |
1628 | .B fc | |
1629 | builtin command. | |
1630 | .TP | |
1631 | .B FIGNORE | |
1632 | A colon-separated list of suffixes to ignore when performing | |
1633 | filename completion (see | |
1634 | .SM | |
1635 | .B READLINE | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
1636 | below). |
1637 | A filename whose suffix matches one of the entries in | |
726f6388 JA |
1638 | .SM |
1639 | .B FIGNORE | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
1640 | is excluded from the list of matched filenames. |
1641 | A sample value is ``.o:~''. | |
1642 | .TP | |
1643 | .B GLOBIGNORE | |
1644 | A colon-separated list of patterns defining the set of filenames to | |
1645 | be ignored by pathname expansion. | |
1646 | If a filename matched by a pathname expansion pattern also matches one | |
1647 | of the patterns in | |
1648 | .SM | |
1649 | .BR GLOBIGNORE , | |
1650 | it is removed from the list of matches. | |
726f6388 JA |
1651 | .TP |
1652 | .B INPUTRC | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
1653 | The filename for the |
1654 | .B readline | |
1655 | startup file, overriding the default of | |
726f6388 JA |
1656 | .FN ~/.inputrc |
1657 | (see | |
1658 | .SM | |
1659 | .B READLINE | |
1660 | below). | |
1661 | .TP | |
726f6388 | 1662 | .B HISTCONTROL |
726f6388 JA |
1663 | If set to a value of |
1664 | .IR ignorespace , | |
1665 | lines which begin with a | |
1666 | .B space | |
bb70624e JA |
1667 | character are not entered on the history list. |
1668 | If set to a value of | |
726f6388 JA |
1669 | .IR ignoredups , |
1670 | lines matching the last history line are not entered. | |
1671 | A value of | |
1672 | .I ignoreboth | |
1673 | combines the two options. | |
1674 | If unset, or if set to any other value than those above, | |
1675 | all lines read | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
1676 | by the parser are saved on the history list, subject to the value |
1677 | of | |
1678 | .BR HISTIGNORE . | |
1679 | This variable's function is superseded by | |
1680 | .BR HISTIGNORE . | |
cce855bc JA |
1681 | The second and subsequent lines of a multi-line compound command are |
1682 | not tested, and are added to the history regardless of the value of | |
1683 | .BR HISTCONTROL . | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
1684 | .TP |
1685 | .B HISTIGNORE | |
1686 | A colon-separated list of patterns used to decide which command lines | |
1687 | should be saved on the history list. Each pattern is anchored at the | |
bb70624e | 1688 | beginning of the line and must match the complete line (no implicit |
ccc6cda3 JA |
1689 | `\fB*\fP' is appended). Each pattern is tested against the line |
1690 | after the checks specified by | |
1691 | .B HISTCONTROL | |
1692 | are applied. | |
1693 | In addition to the normal shell pattern matching characters, `\fB&\fP' | |
1694 | matches the previous history line. `\fB&\fP' may be escaped using a | |
bb70624e | 1695 | backslash; the backslash is removed before attempting a match. |
cce855bc JA |
1696 | The second and subsequent lines of a multi-line compound command are |
1697 | not tested, and are added to the history regardless of the value of | |
1698 | .BR HISTIGNORE . | |
726f6388 JA |
1699 | .TP |
1700 | .B histchars | |
1701 | The two or three characters which control history expansion | |
1702 | and tokenization (see | |
1703 | .SM | |
1704 | .B HISTORY EXPANSION | |
bb70624e | 1705 | below). The first character is the \fIhistory expansion\fP character, |
cce855bc | 1706 | the character which signals the start of a history |
726f6388 | 1707 | expansion, normally `\fB!\fP'. |
bb70624e | 1708 | The second character is the \fIquick substitution\fP |
726f6388 JA |
1709 | character, which is used as shorthand for re-running the previous |
1710 | command entered, substituting one string for another in the command. | |
1711 | The default is `\fB^\fP'. | |
1712 | The optional third character is the character | |
cce855bc | 1713 | which indicates that the remainder of the line is a comment when found |
726f6388 JA |
1714 | as the first character of a word, normally `\fB#\fP'. The history |
1715 | comment character causes history substitution to be skipped for the | |
1716 | remaining words on the line. It does not necessarily cause the shell | |
1717 | parser to treat the rest of the line as a comment. | |
1718 | .TP | |
726f6388 | 1719 | .B HOSTFILE |
726f6388 JA |
1720 | Contains the name of a file in the same format as |
1721 | .FN /etc/hosts | |
1722 | that should be read when the shell needs to complete a | |
bb70624e JA |
1723 | hostname. |
1724 | The list of possible hostname completions may be changed while the | |
1725 | shell is running; | |
1726 | the next time hostname completion is attempted after the | |
1727 | value is changed, | |
726f6388 | 1728 | .B bash |
bb70624e JA |
1729 | adds the contents of the new file to the existing list. |
1730 | If | |
1731 | .SM | |
1732 | .B HOSTFILE | |
1733 | is set, but has no value, \fBbash\fP attempts to read | |
1734 | .FN /etc/hosts | |
1735 | to obtain the list of possible hostname completions. | |
1736 | When | |
1737 | .SM | |
1738 | .B HOSTFILE | |
1739 | is unset, the hostname list is cleared. | |
726f6388 | 1740 | .TP |
726f6388 JA |
1741 | .B auto_resume |
1742 | This variable controls how the shell interacts with the user and | |
1743 | job control. If this variable is set, single word simple | |
1744 | commands without redirections are treated as candidates for resumption | |
1745 | of an existing stopped job. There is no ambiguity allowed; if there is | |
1746 | more than one job beginning with the string typed, the job most recently | |
1747 | accessed is selected. The | |
1748 | .I name | |
1749 | of a stopped job, in this context, is the command line used to | |
1750 | start it. | |
1751 | If set to the value | |
1752 | .IR exact , | |
1753 | the string supplied must match the name of a stopped job exactly; | |
1754 | if set to | |
1755 | .IR substring , | |
1756 | the string supplied needs to match a substring of the name of a | |
1757 | stopped job. The | |
1758 | .I substring | |
1759 | value provides functionality analogous to the | |
1760 | .B %? | |
ccc6cda3 | 1761 | job identifier (see |
726f6388 JA |
1762 | .SM |
1763 | .B JOB CONTROL | |
1764 | below). If set to any other value, the supplied string must | |
1765 | be a prefix of a stopped job's name; this provides functionality | |
1766 | analogous to the | |
1767 | .B % | |
ccc6cda3 | 1768 | job identifier. |
bb70624e JA |
1769 | .TP |
1770 | .B COMPREPLY | |
1771 | An array variable from which \fBbash\fP reads the possible completions | |
1772 | generated by a shell function invoked by the programmable completion | |
1773 | facility (see \fBProgrammable Completion\fP below). | |
726f6388 | 1774 | .PD |
ccc6cda3 JA |
1775 | .SS Arrays |
1776 | .B Bash | |
1777 | provides one-dimensional array variables. Any variable may be used as | |
1778 | an array; the | |
1779 | .B declare | |
1780 | builtin will explicitly declare an array. There is no maximum | |
1781 | limit on the size of an array, nor any requirement that members | |
1782 | be indexed or assigned contiguously. Arrays are indexed using | |
1783 | integers and are zero-based. | |
1784 | .PP | |
1785 | An array is created automatically if any variable is assigned to using | |
1786 | the syntax \fIname\fP[\fIsubscript\fP]=\fIvalue\fP. The | |
1787 | .I subscript | |
1788 | is treated as an arithmetic expression that must evaluate to a number | |
1789 | greater than or equal to zero. To explicitly declare an array, use | |
1790 | .B declare \-a \fIname\fP | |
1791 | (see | |
1792 | .SM | |
1793 | .B SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS | |
1794 | below). | |
1795 | .B declare \-a \fIname\fP[\fIsubscript\fP] | |
1796 | is also accepted; the \fIsubscript\fP is ignored. Attributes may be | |
1797 | specified for an array variable using the | |
1798 | .B declare | |
1799 | and | |
1800 | .B readonly | |
1801 | builtins. Each attribute applies to all members of an array. | |
1802 | .PP | |
1803 | Arrays are assigned to using compound assignments of the form | |
1804 | \fIname\fP=\fB(\fPvalue\fI1\fP ... value\fIn\fP\fB)\fP, where each | |
1805 | \fIvalue\fP is of the form [\fIsubscript\fP]=\fIstring\fP. Only | |
1806 | \fIstring\fP is required. If | |
1807 | the optional brackets and subscript are supplied, that index is assigned to; | |
1808 | otherwise the index of the element assigned is the last index assigned | |
1809 | to by the statement plus one. Indexing starts at zero. | |
1810 | This syntax is also accepted by the | |
1811 | .B declare | |
1812 | builtin. Individual array elements may be assigned to using the | |
1813 | \fIname\fP[\fIsubscript\fP]=\fIvalue\fP syntax introduced above. | |
1814 | .PP | |
1815 | Any element of an array may be referenced using | |
1816 | ${\fIname\fP[\fIsubscript\fP]}. The braces are required to avoid | |
1817 | conflicts with pathname expansion. If | |
1818 | \fIsubscript\fP is \fB@\fP or \fB*\fP, the word expands to | |
1819 | all members of \fIname\fP. These subscripts differ only when the | |
1820 | word appears within double quotes. If the word is double-quoted, | |
1821 | ${\fIname\fP[*]} expands to a single | |
1822 | word with the value of each array member separated by the first | |
1823 | character of the | |
1824 | .SM | |
1825 | .B IFS | |
1826 | special variable, and ${\fIname\fP[@]} expands each element of | |
1827 | \fIname\fP to a separate word. When there are no array members, | |
1828 | ${\fIname\fP[@]} expands to nothing. This is analogous to the expansion | |
1829 | of the special parameters \fB*\fP and \fB@\fP (see | |
1830 | .B Special Parameters | |
1831 | above). ${#\fIname\fP[\fIsubscript\fP]} expands to the length of | |
1832 | ${\fIname\fP[\fIsubscript\fP]}. If \fIsubscript\fP is \fB*\fP or | |
1833 | \fB@\fP, the expansion is the number of elements in the array. | |
1834 | Referencing an array variable without a subscript is equivalent to | |
1835 | referencing element zero. | |
1836 | .PP | |
1837 | The | |
1838 | .B unset | |
bb70624e | 1839 | builtin is used to destroy arrays. \fBunset\fP \fIname\fP[\fIsubscript\fP] |
ccc6cda3 JA |
1840 | destroys the array element at index \fIsubscript\fP. |
1841 | \fBunset\fP \fIname\fP, where \fIname\fP is an array, or | |
1842 | \fBunset\fP \fIname\fP[\fIsubscript\fP], where | |
1843 | \fIsubscript\fP is \fB*\fP or \fB@\fP, removes the entire array. | |
1844 | .PP | |
1845 | The | |
1846 | .BR declare , | |
1847 | .BR local , | |
1848 | and | |
1849 | .B readonly | |
1850 | builtins each accept a | |
1851 | .B \-a | |
1852 | option to specify an array. The | |
1853 | .B read | |
1854 | builtin accepts a | |
1855 | .B \-a | |
1856 | option to assign a list of words read from the standard input | |
1857 | to an array. The | |
1858 | .B set | |
1859 | and | |
1860 | .B declare | |
1861 | builtins display array values in a way that allows them to be | |
1862 | reused as assignments. | |
726f6388 JA |
1863 | .SH EXPANSION |
1864 | Expansion is performed on the command line after it has been split into | |
1865 | words. There are seven kinds of expansion performed: | |
1866 | .IR "brace expansion" , | |
1867 | .IR "tilde expansion" , | |
1868 | .IR "parameter and variable expansion" , | |
1869 | .IR "command substitution" , | |
1870 | .IR "arithmetic expansion" , | |
1871 | .IR "word splitting" , | |
1872 | and | |
1873 | .IR "pathname expansion" . | |
1874 | .PP | |
1875 | The order of expansions is: brace expansion, tilde expansion, | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
1876 | parameter, variable and arithmetic expansion and |
1877 | command substitution | |
1878 | (done in a left-to-right fashion), word splitting, and pathname | |
726f6388 JA |
1879 | expansion. |
1880 | .PP | |
1881 | On systems that can support it, there is an additional expansion | |
1882 | available: \fIprocess substitution\fP. | |
1883 | .PP | |
1884 | Only brace expansion, word splitting, and pathname expansion | |
1885 | can change the number of words of the expansion; other expansions | |
1886 | expand a single word to a single word. | |
ccc6cda3 | 1887 | The only exceptions to this are the expansions of |
cce855bc | 1888 | "\fB$@\fP" and "\fB${\fP\fIname\fP\fB[@]}\fP" |
ccc6cda3 | 1889 | as explained above (see |
726f6388 JA |
1890 | .SM |
1891 | .BR PARAMETERS ). | |
1892 | .SS Brace Expansion | |
1893 | .PP | |
1894 | .I "Brace expansion" | |
1895 | is a mechanism by which arbitrary strings | |
1896 | may be generated. This mechanism is similar to | |
1897 | \fIpathname expansion\fP, but the filenames generated | |
1898 | need not exist. Patterns to be brace expanded take | |
1899 | the form of an optional | |
1900 | .IR preamble , | |
1901 | followed by a series of comma-separated strings | |
1902 | between a pair of braces, followed by an optional | |
cce855bc | 1903 | .IR postscript . |
ccc6cda3 | 1904 | The preamble is prefixed to each string contained |
cce855bc | 1905 | within the braces, and the postscript is then appended |
726f6388 JA |
1906 | to each resulting string, expanding left to right. |
1907 | .PP | |
1908 | Brace expansions may be nested. The results of each expanded | |
1909 | string are not sorted; left to right order is preserved. | |
1910 | For example, a\fB{\fPd,c,b\fB}\fPe expands into `ade ace abe'. | |
1911 | .PP | |
1912 | Brace expansion is performed before any other expansions, | |
1913 | and any characters special to other expansions are preserved | |
1914 | in the result. It is strictly textual. | |
1915 | .B Bash | |
1916 | does not apply any syntactic interpretation to the context of the | |
1917 | expansion or the text between the braces. | |
1918 | .PP | |
1919 | A correctly-formed brace expansion must contain unquoted opening | |
1920 | and closing braces, and at least one unquoted comma. | |
1921 | Any incorrectly formed brace expansion is left unchanged. | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
1922 | A \fB{\fP or \fB,\fP may be quoted with a backslash to prevent its |
1923 | being considered part of a brace expression. | |
bb70624e JA |
1924 | To avoid conflicts with parameter expansion, the string \fB${\fP |
1925 | is not considered eligible for brace expansion. | |
726f6388 JA |
1926 | .PP |
1927 | This construct is typically used as shorthand when the common | |
1928 | prefix of the strings to be generated is longer than in the | |
1929 | above example: | |
1930 | .RS | |
1931 | .PP | |
1932 | mkdir /usr/local/src/bash/{old,new,dist,bugs} | |
1933 | .RE | |
1934 | or | |
1935 | .RS | |
1936 | chown root /usr/{ucb/{ex,edit},lib/{ex?.?*,how_ex}} | |
1937 | .RE | |
1938 | .PP | |
1939 | Brace expansion introduces a slight incompatibility with | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
1940 | historical versions of |
1941 | .BR sh . | |
726f6388 JA |
1942 | .B sh |
1943 | does not treat opening or closing braces specially when they | |
1944 | appear as part of a word, and preserves them in the output. | |
1945 | .B Bash | |
1946 | removes braces from words as a consequence of brace | |
1947 | expansion. For example, a word entered to | |
1948 | .B sh | |
1949 | as \fIfile{1,2}\fP | |
1950 | appears identically in the output. The same word is | |
1951 | output as | |
1952 | .I file1 file2 | |
1953 | after expansion by | |
1954 | .BR bash . | |
1955 | If strict compatibility with | |
1956 | .B sh | |
1957 | is desired, start | |
1958 | .B bash | |
1959 | with the | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
1960 | .B +B |
1961 | option or disable brace expansion with the | |
1962 | .B +B | |
726f6388 JA |
1963 | option to the |
1964 | .B set | |
1965 | command (see | |
1966 | .SM | |
1967 | .B SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS | |
1968 | below). | |
1969 | .SS Tilde Expansion | |
1970 | .PP | |
cce855bc JA |
1971 | If a word begins with an unquoted tilde character (`\fB~\fP'), all of |
1972 | the characters preceding the first unquoted slash (or all characters, | |
1973 | if there is no unquoted slash) are considered a \fItilde-prefix\fP. | |
1974 | If none of the characters in the tilde-prefix are quoted, the | |
1975 | characters in the tilde-prefix following the tilde are treated as a | |
1976 | possible \fIlogin name\fP. | |
1977 | If this login name is the null string, the tilde is replaced with the | |
1978 | value of the shell parameter | |
726f6388 JA |
1979 | .SM |
1980 | .BR HOME . | |
1981 | If | |
1982 | .SM | |
1983 | .B HOME | |
cce855bc JA |
1984 | is unset, the home directory of the user executing the shell is |
1985 | substituted instead. | |
1986 | Otherwise, the tilde-prefix is replaced with the home directory | |
1987 | associated with the specified login name. | |
726f6388 | 1988 | .PP |
cce855bc | 1989 | If the tilde-prefix is a `~+', the value of the shell variable |
726f6388 JA |
1990 | .SM |
1991 | .B PWD | |
cce855bc JA |
1992 | replaces the tilde-prefix. |
1993 | If the tilde-prefix is a `~\-', the value of the shell variable | |
1994 | .SM | |
1995 | .BR OLDPWD , | |
1996 | if it is set, is substituted. | |
1997 | If the characters following the tilde in the tilde-prefix consist | |
1998 | of a number \fIN\fP, optionally prefixed | |
1999 | by a `+' or a `\-', the tilde-prefix is replaced with the corresponding | |
2000 | element from the directory stack, as it would be displayed by the | |
2001 | .B dirs | |
2002 | builtin invoked with the tilde-prefix as an argument. | |
2003 | If the characters following the tilde in the tilde-prefix consist of a | |
2004 | number without a leading `+' or `\-', `+' is assumed. | |
2005 | .PP | |
2006 | If the login name is invalid, or the tilde expansion fails, the word | |
2007 | is unchanged. | |
726f6388 | 2008 | .PP |
cce855bc JA |
2009 | Each variable assignment is checked for unquoted tilde-prefixes immediately |
2010 | following a | |
726f6388 JA |
2011 | .B : |
2012 | or | |
2013 | .BR = . | |
cce855bc JA |
2014 | In these cases, tilde expansion is also performed. |
2015 | Consequently, one may use file names with tildes in assignments to | |
726f6388 JA |
2016 | .SM |
2017 | .BR PATH , | |
2018 | .SM | |
2019 | .BR MAILPATH , | |
2020 | and | |
2021 | .SM | |
2022 | .BR CDPATH , | |
2023 | and the shell assigns the expanded value. | |
2024 | .SS Parameter Expansion | |
2025 | .PP | |
2026 | The `\fB$\fP' character introduces parameter expansion, | |
2027 | command substitution, or arithmetic expansion. The parameter name | |
2028 | or symbol to be expanded may be enclosed in braces, which | |
2029 | are optional but serve to protect the variable to be expanded from | |
2030 | characters immediately following it which could be | |
2031 | interpreted as part of the name. | |
2032 | .PP | |
cce855bc JA |
2033 | When braces are used, the matching ending brace is the first `\fB}\fP' |
2034 | not escaped by a backslash or within a quoted string, and not within an | |
2035 | embedded arithmetic expansion, command substitution, or paramter | |
2036 | expansion. | |
2037 | .PP | |
726f6388 JA |
2038 | .PD 0 |
2039 | .TP | |
2040 | ${\fIparameter\fP} | |
2041 | The value of \fIparameter\fP is substituted. The braces are required | |
2042 | when | |
2043 | .I parameter | |
2044 | is a positional parameter with more than one digit, | |
2045 | or when | |
2046 | .I parameter | |
2047 | is followed by a character which is not to be | |
2048 | interpreted as part of its name. | |
2049 | .PD | |
2050 | .PP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
2051 | If the first character of \fIparameter\fP is an exclamation point, |
2052 | a level of variable indirection is introduced. | |
2053 | \fBBash\fP uses the value of the variable formed from the rest of | |
2054 | \fIparameter\fP as the name of the variable; this variable is then | |
bb70624e | 2055 | expanded and that value is used in the rest of the substitution, rather |
ccc6cda3 JA |
2056 | than the value of \fIparameter\fP itself. |
2057 | This is known as \fIindirect expansion\fP. | |
bb70624e JA |
2058 | The exception to this is the expansion of ${!\fIprefix\fP*} |
2059 | described below. | |
ccc6cda3 | 2060 | .PP |
726f6388 JA |
2061 | In each of the cases below, \fIword\fP is subject to tilde expansion, |
2062 | parameter expansion, command substitution, and arithmetic expansion. | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
2063 | When not performing substring expansion, \fBbash\fP tests for a parameter |
2064 | that is unset or null; omitting the colon results in a test only for a | |
2065 | parameter that is unset. | |
726f6388 JA |
2066 | .PP |
2067 | .PD 0 | |
2068 | .TP | |
2069 | ${\fIparameter\fP\fB:\-\fP\fIword\fP} | |
2070 | \fBUse Default Values\fP. If | |
2071 | .I parameter | |
2072 | is unset or null, the expansion of | |
2073 | .I word | |
2074 | is substituted. Otherwise, the value of | |
2075 | .I parameter | |
2076 | is substituted. | |
2077 | .TP | |
2078 | ${\fIparameter\fP\fB:=\fP\fIword\fP} | |
2079 | \fBAssign Default Values\fP. | |
2080 | If | |
2081 | .I parameter | |
2082 | is unset or null, the expansion of | |
2083 | .I word | |
2084 | is assigned to | |
2085 | .IR parameter . | |
2086 | The value of | |
2087 | .I parameter | |
2088 | is then substituted. Positional parameters and special parameters may | |
2089 | not be assigned to in this way. | |
2090 | .TP | |
2091 | ${\fIparameter\fP\fB:?\fP\fIword\fP} | |
2092 | \fBDisplay Error if Null or Unset\fP. | |
2093 | If | |
2094 | .I parameter | |
2095 | is null or unset, the expansion of \fIword\fP (or a message to that effect | |
2096 | if | |
2097 | .I word | |
2098 | is not present) is written to the standard error and the shell, if it | |
2099 | is not interactive, exits. Otherwise, the value of \fIparameter\fP is | |
2100 | substituted. | |
2101 | .TP | |
2102 | ${\fIparameter\fP\fB:+\fP\fIword\fP} | |
2103 | \fBUse Alternate Value\fP. | |
2104 | If | |
2105 | .I parameter | |
2106 | is null or unset, nothing is substituted, otherwise the expansion of | |
2107 | .I word | |
2108 | is substituted. | |
2109 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
2110 | .PD 0 |
2111 | ${\fIparameter\fP\fB:\fP\fIoffset\fP} | |
2112 | .TP | |
2113 | ${\fIparameter\fP\fB:\fP\fIoffset\fP\fB:\fP\fIlength\fP} | |
2114 | .PD | |
2115 | \fBSubstring Expansion.\fP | |
bb70624e JA |
2116 | Expands to up to \fIlength\fP characters of \fIparameter\fP |
2117 | starting at the character specified by \fIoffset\fP. | |
ccc6cda3 | 2118 | If \fIlength\fP is omitted, expands to the substring of |
bb70624e | 2119 | \fIparameter\fP starting at the character specified by \fIoffset\fP. |
ccc6cda3 JA |
2120 | \fIlength\fP and \fIoffset\fP are arithmetic expressions (see |
2121 | .SM | |
2122 | .B | |
2123 | ARITHMETIC EVALUATION | |
2124 | below). | |
2125 | \fIlength\fP must evaluate to a number greater than or equal to zero. | |
2126 | If \fIoffset\fP evaluates to a number less than zero, the value | |
2127 | is used as an offset from the end of the value of \fIparameter\fP. | |
2128 | If \fIparameter\fP is \fB@\fP, the result is \fIlength\fP positional | |
2129 | parameters beginning at \fIoffset\fP. | |
2130 | If \fIparameter\fP is an array name indexed by @ or *, | |
2131 | the result is the \fIlength\fP | |
2132 | members of the array beginning with ${\fIparameter\fP[\fIoffset\fP]}. | |
cce855bc JA |
2133 | Substring indexing is zero-based unless the positional parameters |
2134 | are used, in which case the indexing starts at 1. | |
ccc6cda3 | 2135 | .TP |
bb70624e JA |
2136 | ${\fB!\fP\fIprefix\fP\fB*\fP} |
2137 | Expands to the names of variables whose names begin with \fIprefix\fP, | |
2138 | separated by the first character of the | |
2139 | .SM | |
2140 | .B IFS | |
2141 | special variable. | |
2142 | .TP | |
726f6388 JA |
2143 | ${\fB#\fP\fIparameter\fP} |
2144 | The length in characters of the value of \fIparameter\fP is substituted. | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
2145 | If |
2146 | .I parameter | |
2147 | is | |
726f6388 JA |
2148 | .B * |
2149 | or | |
2150 | .BR @ , | |
cce855bc | 2151 | the value substituted is the number of positional parameters. |
ccc6cda3 JA |
2152 | If |
2153 | .I parameter | |
2154 | is an array name subscripted by | |
726f6388 | 2155 | .B * |
ccc6cda3 JA |
2156 | or |
2157 | .BR @ , | |
cce855bc | 2158 | the value substituted is the number of elements in the array. |
726f6388 JA |
2159 | .TP |
2160 | .PD 0 | |
2161 | ${\fIparameter\fP\fB#\fP\fIword\fP} | |
2162 | .TP | |
2163 | ${\fIparameter\fP\fB##\fP\fIword\fP} | |
2164 | .PD | |
2165 | The | |
2166 | .I word | |
2167 | is expanded to produce a pattern just as in pathname | |
2168 | expansion. If the pattern matches the beginning of | |
2169 | the value of | |
2170 | .IR parameter , | |
cce855bc | 2171 | then the result of the expansion is the expanded value of |
726f6388 | 2172 | .I parameter |
ccc6cda3 JA |
2173 | with the shortest matching pattern (the ``\fB#\fP'' case) or the |
2174 | longest matching pattern (the ``\fB##\fP'' case) deleted. | |
2175 | If | |
2176 | .I parameter | |
2177 | is | |
2178 | .B @ | |
2179 | or | |
2180 | .BR * , | |
2181 | the pattern removal operation is applied to each positional | |
2182 | parameter in turn, and the expansion is the resultant list. | |
2183 | If | |
2184 | .I parameter | |
2185 | is an array variable subscripted with | |
2186 | .B @ | |
2187 | or | |
2188 | .BR * , | |
2189 | the pattern removal operation is applied to each member of the | |
2190 | array in turn, and the expansion is the resultant list. | |
726f6388 JA |
2191 | .TP |
2192 | .PD 0 | |
2193 | ${\fIparameter\fP\fB%\fP\fIword\fP} | |
2194 | .TP | |
2195 | ${\fIparameter\fP\fB%%\fP\fIword\fP} | |
2196 | .PD | |
2197 | The \fIword\fP is expanded to produce a pattern just as in | |
ccc6cda3 | 2198 | pathname expansion. |
cce855bc | 2199 | If the pattern matches a trailing portion of the expanded value of |
726f6388 | 2200 | .IR parameter , |
cce855bc | 2201 | then the result of the expansion is the expanded value of |
726f6388 | 2202 | .I parameter |
ccc6cda3 JA |
2203 | with the shortest matching pattern (the ``\fB%\fP'' case) or the |
2204 | longest matching pattern (the ``\fB%%\fP'' case) deleted. | |
2205 | If | |
2206 | .I parameter | |
2207 | is | |
2208 | .B @ | |
2209 | or | |
2210 | .BR * , | |
2211 | the pattern removal operation is applied to each positional | |
2212 | parameter in turn, and the expansion is the resultant list. | |
2213 | If | |
2214 | .I parameter | |
2215 | is an array variable subscripted with | |
2216 | .B @ | |
2217 | or | |
2218 | .BR * , | |
2219 | the pattern removal operation is applied to each member of the | |
2220 | array in turn, and the expansion is the resultant list. | |
2221 | .TP | |
2222 | .PD 0 | |
2223 | ${\fIparameter\fP\fB/\fP\fIpattern\fP\fB/\fP\fIstring\fP} | |
2224 | .TP | |
2225 | ${\fIparameter\fP\fB//\fP\fIpattern\fP\fB/\fP\fIstring\fP} | |
2226 | .PD | |
2227 | The \fIpattern\fP is expanded to produce a pattern just as in | |
2228 | pathname expansion. | |
2229 | \fIParameter\fP is expanded and the longest match of \fIpattern\fP | |
2230 | against its value is replaced with \fIstring\fP. | |
2231 | In the first form, only the first match is replaced. | |
2232 | The second form causes all matches of \fIpattern\fP to be | |
2233 | replaced with \fIstring\fP. | |
2234 | If \fIpattern\fP begins with \fB#\fP, it must match at the beginning | |
b72432fd | 2235 | of the expanded value of \fIparameter\fP. |
ccc6cda3 | 2236 | If \fIpattern\fP begins with \fB%\fP, it must match at the end |
b72432fd | 2237 | of the expanded value of \fIparameter\fP. |
ccc6cda3 JA |
2238 | If \fIstring\fP is null, matches of \fIpattern\fP are deleted |
2239 | and the \fB/\fP following \fIpattern\fP may be omitted. | |
2240 | If | |
2241 | .I parameter | |
2242 | is | |
2243 | .B @ | |
2244 | or | |
2245 | .BR * , | |
2246 | the substitution operation is applied to each positional | |
2247 | parameter in turn, and the expansion is the resultant list. | |
2248 | If | |
2249 | .I parameter | |
2250 | is an array variable subscripted with | |
2251 | .B @ | |
2252 | or | |
2253 | .BR * , | |
2254 | the substitution operation is applied to each member of the | |
2255 | array in turn, and the expansion is the resultant list. | |
726f6388 JA |
2256 | .SS Command Substitution |
2257 | .PP | |
cce855bc | 2258 | \fICommand substitution\fP allows the output of a command to replace |
726f6388 JA |
2259 | the command name. There are two forms: |
2260 | .PP | |
2261 | .RS | |
2262 | .PP | |
2263 | \fB$(\fP\fIcommand\fP\|\fB)\fP | |
2264 | .RE | |
2265 | or | |
2266 | .RS | |
2267 | \fB`\fP\fIcommand\fP\fB`\fP | |
2268 | .RE | |
2269 | .PP | |
ccc6cda3 | 2270 | .B Bash |
726f6388 JA |
2271 | performs the expansion by executing \fIcommand\fP and |
2272 | replacing the command substitution with the standard output of the | |
2273 | command, with any trailing newlines deleted. | |
cce855bc JA |
2274 | Embedded newlines are not deleted, but they may be removed during |
2275 | word splitting. | |
2276 | The command substitution \fB$(cat \fIfile\fP)\fR can be replaced by | |
2277 | the equivalent but faster \fB$(< \fIfile\fP)\fR. | |
726f6388 | 2278 | .PP |
ccc6cda3 | 2279 | When the old-style backquote form of substitution is used, |
726f6388 JA |
2280 | backslash retains its literal meaning except when followed by |
2281 | .BR $ , | |
2282 | .BR ` , | |
2283 | or | |
2284 | .BR \e . | |
cce855bc JA |
2285 | The first backquote not preceded by a backslash terminates the |
2286 | command substitution. | |
726f6388 JA |
2287 | When using the $(\^\fIcommand\fP\|) form, all characters between the |
2288 | parentheses make up the command; none are treated specially. | |
2289 | .PP | |
cce855bc | 2290 | Command substitutions may be nested. To nest when using the backquoted form, |
726f6388 JA |
2291 | escape the inner backquotes with backslashes. |
2292 | .PP | |
2293 | If the substitution appears within double quotes, word splitting and | |
2294 | pathname expansion are not performed on the results. | |
2295 | .SS Arithmetic Expansion | |
2296 | .PP | |
2297 | Arithmetic expansion allows the evaluation of an arithmetic expression | |
ccc6cda3 | 2298 | and the substitution of the result. The format for arithmetic expansion is: |
726f6388 JA |
2299 | .RS |
2300 | .PP | |
726f6388 JA |
2301 | \fB$((\fP\fIexpression\fP\fB))\fP |
2302 | .RE | |
2303 | .PP | |
2304 | The | |
2305 | .I expression | |
2306 | is treated as if it were within double quotes, but a double quote | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
2307 | inside the parentheses is not treated specially. |
2308 | All tokens in the expression undergo parameter expansion, string | |
2309 | expansion, command substitution, and quote removal. | |
2310 | Arithmetic substitutions may be nested. | |
726f6388 JA |
2311 | .PP |
2312 | The evaluation is performed according to the rules listed below under | |
2313 | .SM | |
2314 | .BR "ARITHMETIC EVALUATION" . | |
2315 | If | |
2316 | .I expression | |
2317 | is invalid, | |
2318 | .B bash | |
2319 | prints a message indicating failure and no substitution occurs. | |
2320 | .SS Process Substitution | |
2321 | .PP | |
2322 | \fIProcess substitution\fP is supported on systems that support named | |
2323 | pipes (\fIFIFOs\fP) or the \fB/dev/fd\fP method of naming open files. | |
2324 | It takes the form of | |
2325 | \fB<(\fP\fIlist\^\fP\fB)\fP | |
2326 | or | |
2327 | \fB>(\fP\fIlist\^\fP\fB)\fP. | |
2328 | The process \fIlist\fP is run with its input or output connected to a | |
2329 | \fIFIFO\fP or some file in \fB/dev/fd\fP. The name of this file is | |
2330 | passed as an argument to the current command as the result of the | |
2331 | expansion. If the \fB>(\fP\fIlist\^\fP\fB)\fP form is used, writing to | |
2332 | the file will provide input for \fIlist\fP. If the | |
2333 | \fB<(\fP\fIlist\^\fP\fB)\fP form is used, the file passed as an | |
2334 | argument should be read to obtain the output of \fIlist\fP. | |
2335 | .PP | |
bb70624e | 2336 | When available, process substitution is performed |
ccc6cda3 JA |
2337 | simultaneously with parameter and variable expansion, |
2338 | command substitution, | |
2339 | and arithmetic expansion. | |
726f6388 JA |
2340 | .SS Word Splitting |
2341 | .PP | |
2342 | The shell scans the results of | |
2343 | parameter expansion, | |
2344 | command substitution, | |
2345 | and | |
2346 | arithmetic expansion | |
2347 | that did not occur within double quotes for | |
2348 | .IR "word splitting" . | |
2349 | .PP | |
2350 | The shell treats each character of | |
2351 | .SM | |
2352 | .B IFS | |
2353 | as a delimiter, and splits the results of the other | |
ccc6cda3 | 2354 | expansions into words on these characters. If |
726f6388 JA |
2355 | .SM |
2356 | .B IFS | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
2357 | is unset, or its |
2358 | value is exactly | |
726f6388 JA |
2359 | .BR <space><tab><newline> , |
2360 | the default, then | |
2361 | any sequence of | |
2362 | .SM | |
2363 | .B IFS | |
2364 | characters serves to delimit words. If | |
2365 | .SM | |
2366 | .B IFS | |
2367 | has a value other than the default, then sequences of | |
2368 | the whitespace characters | |
2369 | .B space | |
2370 | and | |
2371 | .B tab | |
2372 | are ignored at the beginning and end of the | |
2373 | word, as long as the whitespace character is in the | |
2374 | value of | |
2375 | .SM | |
2376 | .BR IFS | |
2377 | (an | |
2378 | .SM | |
2379 | .B IFS | |
2380 | whitespace character). | |
2381 | Any character in | |
2382 | .SM | |
2383 | .B IFS | |
2384 | that is not | |
2385 | .SM | |
2386 | .B IFS | |
2387 | whitespace, along with any adjacent | |
2388 | .SM | |
2389 | .B IFS | |
2390 | whitespace characters, delimits a field. | |
2391 | A sequence of | |
2392 | .SM | |
2393 | .B IFS | |
2394 | whitespace characters is also treated as a delimiter. | |
2395 | If the value of | |
2396 | .SM | |
2397 | .B IFS | |
2398 | is null, no word splitting occurs. | |
726f6388 | 2399 | .PP |
ccc6cda3 JA |
2400 | Explicit null arguments (\^\f3"\^"\fP or \^\f3'\^'\fP\^) are retained. |
2401 | Unquoted implicit null arguments, resulting from the expansion of | |
bb70624e | 2402 | parameters that have no values, are removed. |
ccc6cda3 JA |
2403 | If a parameter with no value is expanded within double quotes, a |
2404 | null argument results and is retained. | |
726f6388 JA |
2405 | .PP |
2406 | Note that if no expansion occurs, no splitting | |
2407 | is performed. | |
2408 | .SS Pathname Expansion | |
2409 | .PP | |
2410 | After word splitting, | |
2411 | unless the | |
2412 | .B \-f | |
2413 | option has been set, | |
2414 | .B bash | |
ccc6cda3 | 2415 | scans each word for the characters |
726f6388 JA |
2416 | .BR * , |
2417 | .BR ? , | |
2418 | and | |
2419 | .BR [ . | |
2420 | If one of these characters appears, then the word is | |
2421 | regarded as a | |
2422 | .IR pattern , | |
2423 | and replaced with an alphabetically sorted list of | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
2424 | file names matching the pattern. |
2425 | If no matching file names are found, | |
2426 | and the shell option | |
2427 | .B nullglob | |
2428 | is disabled, the word is left unchanged. | |
cce855bc JA |
2429 | If the |
2430 | .B nullglob | |
2431 | option is set, and no matches are found, | |
726f6388 | 2432 | the word is removed. |
cce855bc JA |
2433 | If the shell option |
2434 | .B nocaseglob | |
2435 | is enabled, the match is performed without regard to the case | |
2436 | of alphabetic characters. | |
ccc6cda3 | 2437 | When a pattern is used for pathname expansion, |
726f6388 JA |
2438 | the character |
2439 | .B ``.'' | |
2440 | at the start of a name or immediately following a slash | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
2441 | must be matched explicitly, unless the shell option |
2442 | .B dotglob | |
2443 | is set. | |
cce855bc JA |
2444 | When matching a pathname, the slash character must always be |
2445 | matched explicitly. | |
ccc6cda3 | 2446 | In other cases, the |
726f6388 JA |
2447 | .B ``.'' |
2448 | character is not treated specially. | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
2449 | See the description of |
2450 | .B shopt | |
2451 | below under | |
2452 | .SM | |
2453 | .B SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS | |
2454 | for a description of the | |
cce855bc JA |
2455 | .BR nocaseglob , |
2456 | .BR nullglob , | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
2457 | and |
2458 | .B dotglob | |
2459 | shell options. | |
2460 | .PP | |
2461 | The | |
2462 | .SM | |
2463 | .B GLOBIGNORE | |
2464 | shell variable may be used to restrict the set of file names matching a | |
2465 | .IR pattern . | |
2466 | If | |
2467 | .SM | |
2468 | .B GLOBIGNORE | |
2469 | is set, each matching file name that also matches one of the patterns in | |
2470 | .SM | |
2471 | .B GLOBIGNORE | |
2472 | is removed from the list of matches. | |
2473 | The file names | |
2474 | .B ``.'' | |
2475 | and | |
2476 | .B ``..'' | |
2477 | are always ignored, even when | |
2478 | .SM | |
2479 | .B GLOBIGNORE | |
2480 | is set. However, setting | |
2481 | .SM | |
2482 | .B GLOBIGNORE | |
2483 | has the effect of enabling the | |
2484 | .B dotglob | |
2485 | shell option, so all other file names beginning with a | |
2486 | .B ``.'' | |
2487 | will match. | |
2488 | To get the old behavior of ignoring file names beginning with a | |
2489 | .BR ``.'' , | |
2490 | make | |
2491 | .B ``.*'' | |
2492 | one of the patterns in | |
2493 | .SM | |
2494 | .BR GLOBIGNORE . | |
2495 | The | |
2496 | .B dotglob | |
2497 | option is disabled when | |
2498 | .SM | |
2499 | .B GLOBIGNORE | |
2500 | is unset. | |
726f6388 | 2501 | .PP |
cce855bc JA |
2502 | \fBPattern Matching\fP |
2503 | .PP | |
2504 | Any character that appears in a pattern, other than the special pattern | |
2505 | characters described below, matches itself. The NUL character may not | |
2506 | occur in a pattern. The special pattern characters must be quoted if | |
2507 | they are to be matched literally. | |
2508 | .PP | |
726f6388 JA |
2509 | The special pattern characters have the following meanings: |
2510 | .PP | |
2511 | .PD 0 | |
2512 | .TP | |
2513 | .B * | |
2514 | Matches any string, including the null string. | |
2515 | .TP | |
2516 | .B ? | |
2517 | Matches any single character. | |
2518 | .TP | |
2519 | .B [...] | |
2520 | Matches any one of the enclosed characters. A pair of characters | |
28ef6c31 JA |
2521 | separated by a hyphen denotes a |
2522 | \fIrange expression\fP; | |
2523 | any character that sorts between those two characters, inclusive, | |
2524 | using the current locale's collating sequence and character set, | |
726f6388 JA |
2525 | is matched. If the first character following the |
2526 | .B [ | |
2527 | is a | |
2528 | .B ! | |
2529 | or a | |
2530 | .B ^ | |
ccc6cda3 | 2531 | then any character not enclosed is matched. |
28ef6c31 JA |
2532 | The sorting order of characters in range expressions is determined by |
2533 | the current locale and the value of the \fBLC_COLLATE\fP shell variable, | |
2534 | if set. | |
ccc6cda3 | 2535 | A |
726f6388 | 2536 | .B \- |
726f6388 JA |
2537 | may be matched by including it as the first or last character |
2538 | in the set. | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
2539 | A |
2540 | .B ] | |
2541 | may be matched by including it as the first character | |
2542 | in the set. | |
cce855bc JA |
2543 | .br |
2544 | .if t .sp 0.5 | |
2545 | .if n .sp 1 | |
2546 | Within | |
2547 | .B [ | |
2548 | and | |
2549 | .BR ] , | |
2550 | \fIcharacter classes\fP can be specified using the syntax | |
2551 | \fB[:\fP\fIclass\fP\fB:]\fP, where \fIclass\fP is one of the | |
2552 | following classes defined in the POSIX.2 standard: | |
2553 | .PP | |
2554 | .RS | |
2555 | .B | |
2556 | .if n alnum alpha ascii blank cntrl digit graph lower print punct space upper xdigit | |
2557 | .if t alnum alpha ascii blank cntrl digit graph lower print punct space upper xdigit | |
2558 | .br | |
2559 | A character class matches any character belonging to that class. | |
2560 | .br | |
2561 | .if t .sp 0.5 | |
2562 | .if n .sp 1 | |
2563 | Within | |
2564 | .B [ | |
2565 | and | |
2566 | .BR ] , | |
2567 | an \fIequivalence class\fP can be specified using the syntax | |
2568 | \fB[=\fP\fIc\fP\fB=]\fP, which matches all characters with the | |
2569 | same collation weight (as defined by the current locale) as | |
2570 | the character \fIc\fP. | |
2571 | .br | |
2572 | .if t .sp 0.5 | |
2573 | .if n .sp 1 | |
2574 | Within | |
2575 | .B [ | |
2576 | and | |
2577 | .BR ] , | |
2578 | the syntax \fB[.\fP\fIsymbol\fP\fB.]\fP matches the collating symbol | |
2579 | \fIsymbol\fP. | |
2580 | .RE | |
2581 | .PD | |
2582 | .PP | |
2583 | If the \fBextglob\fP shell option is enabled using the \fBshopt\fP | |
2584 | builtin, several extended pattern matching operators are recognized. | |
bb70624e | 2585 | In the following description, a \fIpattern-list\fP is a list of one |
cce855bc JA |
2586 | or more patterns separated by a \fB|\fP. |
2587 | Composite patterns may be formed using one or more of the following | |
2588 | sub-patterns: | |
2589 | .sp 1 | |
2590 | .PD 0 | |
2591 | .RS | |
2592 | .TP | |
2593 | \fB?(\fP\^\fIpattern-list\^\fP\fB)\fP | |
2594 | Matches zero or one occurrence of the given patterns | |
2595 | .TP | |
2596 | \fB*(\fP\^\fIpattern-list\^\fP\fB)\fP | |
2597 | Matches zero or more occurrences of the given patterns | |
2598 | .TP | |
2599 | \fB+(\fP\^\fIpattern-list\^\fP\fB)\fP | |
2600 | Matches one or more occurrences of the given patterns | |
2601 | .TP | |
2602 | \fB@(\fP\^\fIpattern-list\^\fP\fB)\fP | |
2603 | Matches exactly one of the given patterns | |
2604 | .TP | |
2605 | \fB!(\fP\^\fIpattern-list\^\fP\fB)\fP | |
2606 | Matches anything except one of the given patterns | |
2607 | .RE | |
726f6388 JA |
2608 | .PD |
2609 | .SS Quote Removal | |
2610 | .PP | |
2611 | After the preceding expansions, all unquoted occurrences of the | |
2612 | characters | |
2613 | .BR \e , | |
cce855bc | 2614 | .BR ' , |
ccc6cda3 JA |
2615 | and \^\f3"\fP\^ that did not result from one of the above |
2616 | expansions are removed. | |
726f6388 JA |
2617 | .SH REDIRECTION |
2618 | Before a command is executed, its input and output | |
2619 | may be | |
2620 | .I redirected | |
2621 | using a special notation interpreted by the shell. | |
2622 | Redirection may also be used to open and close files for the | |
2623 | current shell execution environment. The following redirection | |
2624 | operators may precede or appear anywhere within a | |
2625 | .I simple command | |
2626 | or may follow a | |
2627 | .IR command . | |
2628 | Redirections are processed in the order they appear, from | |
2629 | left to right. | |
2630 | .PP | |
2631 | In the following descriptions, if the file descriptor number is | |
2632 | omitted, and the first character of the redirection operator is | |
2633 | .BR < , | |
2634 | the redirection refers to the standard input (file descriptor | |
2635 | 0). If the first character of the redirection operator is | |
2636 | .BR > , | |
2637 | the redirection refers to the standard output (file descriptor | |
2638 | 1). | |
2639 | .PP | |
cce855bc JA |
2640 | The word following the redirection operator in the following |
2641 | descriptions, unless otherwise noted, is subjected to brace expansion, | |
2642 | tilde expansion, parameter expansion, command substitution, arithmetic | |
bb70624e | 2643 | expansion, quote removal, pathname expansion, and word splitting. |
cce855bc | 2644 | If it expands to more than one word, |
726f6388 JA |
2645 | .B bash |
2646 | reports an error. | |
2647 | .PP | |
2648 | Note that the order of redirections is significant. For example, | |
2649 | the command | |
2650 | .RS | |
2651 | .PP | |
2652 | ls \fB>\fP dirlist 2\fB>&\fP1 | |
2653 | .RE | |
2654 | .PP | |
2655 | directs both standard output and standard error to the file | |
2656 | .IR dirlist , | |
2657 | while the command | |
2658 | .RS | |
2659 | .PP | |
2660 | ls 2\fB>&\fP1 \fB>\fP dirlist | |
2661 | .RE | |
2662 | .PP | |
2663 | directs only the standard output to file | |
2664 | .IR dirlist , | |
2665 | because the standard error was duplicated as standard output | |
2666 | before the standard output was redirected to | |
2667 | .IR dirlist . | |
cce855bc | 2668 | .PP |
bb70624e JA |
2669 | \fBBash\fP handles several filenames specially when they are used in |
2670 | redirections, as described in the following table: | |
2671 | .RS | |
2672 | .PP | |
2673 | .PD 0 | |
2674 | .TP | |
2675 | .B /dev/fd/\fIfd\fP | |
2676 | If \fIfd\fP is a valid integer, file descriptor \fIfd\fP is duplicated. | |
2677 | .TP | |
2678 | .B /dev/stdin | |
2679 | File descriptor 0 is duplicated. | |
2680 | .TP | |
2681 | .B /dev/stdout | |
2682 | File descriptor 1 is duplicated. | |
2683 | .TP | |
2684 | .B /dev/stderr | |
2685 | File descriptor 2 is duplicated. | |
2686 | .TP | |
2687 | .B /dev/tcp/\fIhost\fP/\fIport\fP | |
2688 | If \fIhost\fP is a valid hostname or Internet address, and \fIport\fP | |
2689 | is an integer port number, \fBbash\fP attempts to open a TCP connection | |
2690 | to the corresponding socket. | |
2691 | .TP | |
2692 | .B /dev/udp/\fIhost\fP/\fIport\fP | |
2693 | If \fIhost\fP is a valid hostname or Internet address, and \fIport\fP | |
2694 | is an integer port number, \fBbash\fP attempts to open a UDP connection | |
2695 | to the corresponding socket. | |
2696 | .PD | |
2697 | .RE | |
2698 | .PP | |
cce855bc | 2699 | A failure to open or create a file causes the redirection to fail. |
726f6388 JA |
2700 | .SS Redirecting Input |
2701 | .PP | |
2702 | Redirection of input causes the file whose name results from | |
2703 | the expansion of | |
2704 | .I word | |
2705 | to be opened for reading on file descriptor | |
2706 | .IR n , | |
2707 | or the standard input (file descriptor 0) if | |
2708 | .I n | |
2709 | is not specified. | |
2710 | .PP | |
2711 | The general format for redirecting input is: | |
2712 | .RS | |
2713 | .PP | |
2714 | [\fIn\fP]\fB<\fP\fIword\fP | |
2715 | .RE | |
2716 | .SS Redirecting Output | |
2717 | .PP | |
2718 | Redirection of output causes the file whose name results from | |
2719 | the expansion of | |
2720 | .I word | |
2721 | to be opened for writing on file descriptor | |
2722 | .IR n , | |
2723 | or the standard output (file descriptor 1) if | |
2724 | .I n | |
2725 | is not specified. If the file does not exist it is created; | |
2726 | if it does exist it is truncated to zero size. | |
2727 | .PP | |
2728 | The general format for redirecting output is: | |
2729 | .RS | |
2730 | .PP | |
2731 | [\fIn\fP]\fB>\fP\fIword\fP | |
2732 | .RE | |
2733 | .PP | |
2734 | If the redirection operator is | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
2735 | .BR > , |
2736 | and the | |
cce855bc | 2737 | .B noclobber |
ccc6cda3 JA |
2738 | option to the |
2739 | .B set | |
bb70624e | 2740 | builtin has been enabled, the redirection will fail if the file |
cce855bc JA |
2741 | whose name results from the expansion of \fIword\fP exists and is |
2742 | a regular file. | |
ccc6cda3 | 2743 | If the redirection operator is |
726f6388 | 2744 | .BR >| , |
cce855bc JA |
2745 | or the redirection operator is |
2746 | .B > | |
2747 | and the | |
2748 | .B noclobber | |
726f6388 JA |
2749 | option to the |
2750 | .B set | |
cce855bc | 2751 | builtin command is not enabled, the redirection is attempted even |
ccc6cda3 | 2752 | if the file named by \fIword\fP exists. |
726f6388 JA |
2753 | .SS Appending Redirected Output |
2754 | .PP | |
2755 | Redirection of output in this fashion | |
2756 | causes the file whose name results from | |
2757 | the expansion of | |
2758 | .I word | |
2759 | to be opened for appending on file descriptor | |
2760 | .IR n , | |
2761 | or the standard output (file descriptor 1) if | |
2762 | .I n | |
2763 | is not specified. If the file does not exist it is created. | |
2764 | .PP | |
2765 | The general format for appending output is: | |
2766 | .RS | |
2767 | .PP | |
2768 | [\fIn\fP]\fB>>\fP\fIword\fP | |
2769 | .RE | |
2770 | .PP | |
2771 | .SS Redirecting Standard Output and Standard Error | |
2772 | .PP | |
2773 | .B Bash | |
2774 | allows both the | |
2775 | standard output (file descriptor 1) and | |
2776 | the standard error output (file descriptor 2) | |
2777 | to be redirected to the file whose name is the | |
2778 | expansion of | |
2779 | .I word | |
2780 | with this construct. | |
2781 | .PP | |
2782 | There are two formats for redirecting standard output and | |
2783 | standard error: | |
2784 | .RS | |
2785 | .PP | |
2786 | \fB&>\fP\fIword\fP | |
2787 | .RE | |
2788 | and | |
2789 | .RS | |
2790 | \fB>&\fP\fIword\fP | |
2791 | .RE | |
2792 | .PP | |
2793 | Of the two forms, the first is preferred. | |
2794 | This is semantically equivalent to | |
2795 | .RS | |
2796 | .PP | |
2797 | \fB>\fP\fIword\fP 2\fB>&\fP1 | |
2798 | .RE | |
2799 | .SS Here Documents | |
2800 | .PP | |
2801 | This type of redirection instructs the shell to read input from the | |
2802 | current source until a line containing only | |
2803 | .I word | |
2804 | (with no trailing blanks) | |
2805 | is seen. All of | |
2806 | the lines read up to that point are then used as the standard | |
2807 | input for a command. | |
2808 | .PP | |
2809 | The format of here-documents is as follows: | |
2810 | .RS | |
2811 | .PP | |
2812 | .nf | |
2813 | \fB<<\fP[\fB\-\fP]\fIword\fP | |
ccc6cda3 | 2814 | \fIhere\-document\fP |
726f6388 JA |
2815 | \fIdelimiter\fP |
2816 | .fi | |
2817 | .RE | |
2818 | .PP | |
bb70624e JA |
2819 | No parameter expansion, command substitution, arithmetic expansion, |
2820 | or pathname expansion is performed on | |
726f6388 JA |
2821 | .IR word . |
2822 | If any characters in | |
2823 | .I word | |
2824 | are quoted, the | |
2825 | .I delimiter | |
2826 | is the result of quote removal on | |
2827 | .IR word , | |
cce855bc JA |
2828 | and the lines in the here-document are not expanded. |
2829 | If \fIword\fP is unquoted, | |
726f6388 JA |
2830 | all lines of the here-document are subjected to parameter expansion, |
2831 | command substitution, and arithmetic expansion. In the latter | |
bb70624e | 2832 | case, the character sequence |
726f6388 JA |
2833 | .B \e<newline> |
2834 | is ignored, and | |
2835 | .B \e | |
2836 | must be used to quote the characters | |
2837 | .BR \e , | |
2838 | .BR $ , | |
2839 | and | |
2840 | .BR ` . | |
2841 | .PP | |
2842 | If the redirection operator is | |
2843 | .BR <<\- , | |
2844 | then all leading tab characters are stripped from input lines and the | |
2845 | line containing | |
2846 | .IR delimiter . | |
2847 | This allows | |
2848 | here-documents within shell scripts to be indented in a | |
2849 | natural fashion. | |
2850 | .SS "Duplicating File Descriptors" | |
2851 | .PP | |
2852 | The redirection operator | |
2853 | .RS | |
2854 | .PP | |
2855 | [\fIn\fP]\fB<&\fP\fIword\fP | |
2856 | .RE | |
2857 | .PP | |
2858 | is used to duplicate input file descriptors. | |
2859 | If | |
2860 | .I word | |
2861 | expands to one or more digits, the file descriptor denoted by | |
2862 | .I n | |
cce855bc JA |
2863 | is made to be a copy of that file descriptor. |
2864 | If the digits in | |
2865 | .I word | |
2866 | do not specify a file descriptor open for input, a redirection error occurs. | |
2867 | If | |
726f6388 JA |
2868 | .I word |
2869 | evaluates to | |
2870 | .BR \- , | |
2871 | file descriptor | |
2872 | .I n | |
2873 | is closed. If | |
2874 | .I n | |
2875 | is not specified, the standard input (file descriptor 0) is used. | |
2876 | .PP | |
2877 | The operator | |
2878 | .RS | |
2879 | .PP | |
2880 | [\fIn\fP]\fB>&\fP\fIword\fP | |
2881 | .RE | |
2882 | .PP | |
2883 | is used similarly to duplicate output file descriptors. If | |
2884 | .I n | |
2885 | is not specified, the standard output (file descriptor 1) is used. | |
cce855bc JA |
2886 | If the digits in |
2887 | .I word | |
2888 | do not specify a file descriptor open for output, a redirection error occurs. | |
726f6388 JA |
2889 | As a special case, if \fIn\fP is omitted, and \fIword\fP does not |
2890 | expand to one or more digits, the standard output and standard | |
2891 | error are redirected as described previously. | |
2892 | .SS "Opening File Descriptors for Reading and Writing" | |
2893 | .PP | |
2894 | The redirection operator | |
2895 | .RS | |
2896 | .PP | |
2897 | [\fIn\fP]\fB<>\fP\fIword\fP | |
2898 | .RE | |
2899 | .PP | |
2900 | causes the file whose name is the expansion of | |
2901 | .I word | |
2902 | to be opened for both reading and writing on file descriptor | |
2903 | .IR n , | |
ccc6cda3 | 2904 | or on file descriptor 0 if |
726f6388 JA |
2905 | .I n |
2906 | is not specified. If the file does not exist, it is created. | |
726f6388 | 2907 | .SH ALIASES |
bb70624e | 2908 | \fIAliases\fP allow a string to be substituted for a word when it is used |
cce855bc | 2909 | as the first word of a simple command. |
bb70624e | 2910 | The shell maintains a list of aliases that may be set and unset with the |
726f6388 JA |
2911 | .B alias |
2912 | and | |
2913 | .B unalias | |
2914 | builtin commands (see | |
2915 | .SM | |
2916 | .B SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS | |
2917 | below). | |
2918 | The first word of each command, if unquoted, | |
2919 | is checked to see if it has an | |
2920 | alias. If so, that word is replaced by the text of the alias. | |
2921 | The alias name and the replacement text may contain any valid | |
2922 | shell input, including the | |
2923 | .I metacharacters | |
2924 | listed above, with the exception that the alias name may not | |
2925 | contain \fI=\fP. The first word of the replacement text is tested | |
2926 | for aliases, but a word that is identical to an alias being expanded | |
2927 | is not expanded a second time. This means that one may alias | |
2928 | .B ls | |
2929 | to | |
2930 | .BR "ls \-F" , | |
2931 | for instance, and | |
2932 | .B bash | |
2933 | does not try to recursively expand the replacement text. | |
2934 | If the last character of the alias value is a | |
2935 | .IR blank , | |
2936 | then the next command | |
2937 | word following the alias is also checked for alias expansion. | |
2938 | .PP | |
2939 | Aliases are created and listed with the | |
2940 | .B alias | |
2941 | command, and removed with the | |
2942 | .B unalias | |
2943 | command. | |
2944 | .PP | |
ccc6cda3 | 2945 | There is no mechanism for using arguments in the replacement text. |
bb70624e JA |
2946 | If arguments are needed, a shell function should be used (see |
2947 | .SM | |
2948 | .B FUNCTIONS | |
2949 | below). | |
726f6388 | 2950 | .PP |
ccc6cda3 JA |
2951 | Aliases are not expanded when the shell is not interactive, unless |
2952 | the | |
2953 | .B expand_aliases | |
2954 | shell option is set using | |
2955 | .B shopt | |
2956 | (see the description of | |
2957 | .B shopt | |
2958 | under | |
2959 | .SM | |
2960 | \fBSHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS\fP | |
2961 | below). | |
726f6388 JA |
2962 | .PP |
2963 | The rules concerning the definition and use of aliases are | |
2964 | somewhat confusing. | |
2965 | .B Bash | |
2966 | always reads at least one complete line | |
2967 | of input before executing any | |
2968 | of the commands on that line. Aliases are expanded when a | |
2969 | command is read, not when it is executed. Therefore, an | |
2970 | alias definition appearing on the same line as another | |
2971 | command does not take effect until the next line of input is read. | |
ccc6cda3 | 2972 | The commands following the alias definition |
726f6388 JA |
2973 | on that line are not affected by the new alias. |
2974 | This behavior is also an issue when functions are executed. | |
cce855bc | 2975 | Aliases are expanded when a function definition is read, |
726f6388 JA |
2976 | not when the function is executed, because a function definition |
2977 | is itself a compound command. As a consequence, aliases | |
2978 | defined in a function are not available until after that | |
2979 | function is executed. To be safe, always put | |
2980 | alias definitions on a separate line, and do not use | |
2981 | .B alias | |
2982 | in compound commands. | |
2983 | .PP | |
cce855bc | 2984 | For almost every purpose, aliases are superseded by |
726f6388 | 2985 | shell functions. |
ccc6cda3 JA |
2986 | .SH FUNCTIONS |
2987 | A shell function, defined as described above under | |
2988 | .SM | |
2989 | .BR "SHELL GRAMMAR" , | |
2990 | stores a series of commands for later execution. | |
bb70624e JA |
2991 | When the name of a shell function is used as a simple command name, |
2992 | the list of commands associated with that function name is executed. | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
2993 | Functions are executed in the context of the |
2994 | current shell; no new process is created to interpret | |
2995 | them (contrast this with the execution of a shell script). | |
2996 | When a function is executed, the arguments to the | |
2997 | function become the positional parameters | |
bb70624e JA |
2998 | during its execution. |
2999 | The special parameter | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3000 | .B # |
3001 | is updated to reflect the change. Positional parameter 0 | |
bb70624e JA |
3002 | is unchanged. |
3003 | The | |
3004 | .SM | |
3005 | .B FUNCNAME | |
3006 | variable is set to the name of the function while the function | |
3007 | is executing. | |
3008 | All other aspects of the shell execution | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3009 | environment are identical between a function and its caller |
3010 | with the exception that the | |
3011 | .SM | |
3012 | .B DEBUG | |
3013 | trap (see the description of the | |
3014 | .B trap | |
3015 | builtin under | |
3016 | .SM | |
3017 | .B SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS | |
3018 | below) is not inherited. | |
726f6388 | 3019 | .PP |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3020 | Variables local to the function may be declared with the |
3021 | .B local | |
3022 | builtin command. Ordinarily, variables and their values | |
3023 | are shared between the function and its caller. | |
726f6388 | 3024 | .PP |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3025 | If the builtin command |
3026 | .B return | |
3027 | is executed in a function, the function completes and | |
3028 | execution resumes with the next command after the function | |
3029 | call. When a function completes, the values of the | |
3030 | positional parameters and the special parameter | |
3031 | .B # | |
cce855bc | 3032 | are restored to the values they had prior to the function's |
ccc6cda3 | 3033 | execution. |
726f6388 | 3034 | .PP |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3035 | Function names and definitions may be listed with the |
3036 | .B \-f | |
726f6388 | 3037 | option to the |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3038 | .B declare |
3039 | or | |
3040 | .B typeset | |
3041 | builtin commands. The | |
3042 | .B \-F | |
3043 | option to | |
3044 | .B declare | |
3045 | or | |
3046 | .B typeset | |
3047 | will list the function names only. | |
3048 | Functions may be exported so that subshells | |
3049 | automatically have them defined with the | |
3050 | .B \-f | |
3051 | option to the | |
3052 | .B export | |
3053 | builtin. | |
726f6388 | 3054 | .PP |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3055 | Functions may be recursive. No limit is imposed on the number |
3056 | of recursive calls. | |
cce855bc JA |
3057 | .SH "ARITHMETIC EVALUATION" |
3058 | The shell allows arithmetic expressions to be evaluated, under | |
3059 | certain circumstances (see the \fBlet\fP builtin command and | |
3060 | \fBArithmetic Expansion\fP). | |
3061 | Evaluation is done in long integers with no check for overflow, | |
3062 | though division by 0 is trapped and flagged as an error. | |
bb70624e JA |
3063 | The operators and their precedence and associativity are the same |
3064 | as in the C language. | |
cce855bc JA |
3065 | The following list of operators is grouped into levels of |
3066 | equal-precedence operators. | |
3067 | The levels are listed in order of decreasing precedence. | |
726f6388 | 3068 | .PP |
cce855bc JA |
3069 | .PD 0 |
3070 | .TP | |
bb70624e JA |
3071 | .B \fIid\fP++ \fIid\fP\-\- |
3072 | variable post-increment and post-decrement | |
3073 | .TP | |
3074 | .B ++\fIid\fP \-\-\fIid\fP | |
3075 | variable pre-increment and pre-decrement | |
3076 | .TP | |
cce855bc JA |
3077 | .B \- + |
3078 | unary minus and plus | |
3079 | .TP | |
3080 | .B ! ~ | |
3081 | logical and bitwise negation | |
3082 | .TP | |
3083 | .B ** | |
3084 | exponentiation | |
3085 | .TP | |
3086 | .B * / % | |
3087 | multiplication, division, remainder | |
3088 | .TP | |
3089 | .B + \- | |
3090 | addition, subtraction | |
3091 | .TP | |
3092 | .B << >> | |
3093 | left and right bitwise shifts | |
3094 | .TP | |
3095 | .B <= >= < > | |
3096 | comparison | |
3097 | .TP | |
3098 | .B == != | |
3099 | equality and inequality | |
3100 | .TP | |
3101 | .B & | |
3102 | bitwise AND | |
3103 | .TP | |
3104 | .B ^ | |
3105 | bitwise exclusive OR | |
3106 | .TP | |
3107 | .B | | |
3108 | bitwise OR | |
3109 | .TP | |
3110 | .B && | |
3111 | logical AND | |
3112 | .TP | |
3113 | .B || | |
3114 | logical OR | |
3115 | .TP | |
3116 | .B \fIexpr\fP?\fIexpr\fP:\fIexpr\fP | |
3117 | conditional evaluation | |
3118 | .TP | |
3119 | .B = *= /= %= += \-= <<= >>= &= ^= |= | |
3120 | assignment | |
bb70624e JA |
3121 | .TP |
3122 | .B \fIexpr1\fP , \fIexpr2\fP | |
3123 | comma | |
cce855bc | 3124 | .PD |
ccc6cda3 | 3125 | .PP |
cce855bc | 3126 | Shell variables are allowed as operands; parameter expansion is |
bb70624e JA |
3127 | performed before the expression is evaluated. |
3128 | Within an expression, shell variables may also be referenced by name | |
3129 | without using the parameter expansion syntax. | |
3130 | The value of a variable is evaluated as an arithmetic expression | |
3131 | when it is referenced. | |
3132 | A shell variable need not have its integer attribute | |
cce855bc | 3133 | turned on to be used in an expression. |
ccc6cda3 | 3134 | .PP |
cce855bc JA |
3135 | Constants with a leading 0 are interpreted as octal numbers. |
3136 | A leading 0x or 0X denotes hexadecimal. | |
3137 | Otherwise, numbers take the form [\fIbase#\fP]n, where \fIbase\fP | |
3138 | is a decimal number between 2 and 64 representing the arithmetic | |
3139 | base, and \fIn\fP is a number in that base. | |
bb70624e | 3140 | If \fIbase#\fP is omitted, then base 10 is used. |
cce855bc JA |
3141 | The digits greater than 9 are represented by the lowercase letters, |
3142 | the uppercase letters, _, and @, in that order. | |
3143 | If \fIbase\fP is less than or equal to 36, lowercase and uppercase | |
3144 | letters may be used interchangably to represent numbers between 10 | |
3145 | and 35. | |
ccc6cda3 | 3146 | .PP |
cce855bc JA |
3147 | Operators are evaluated in order of precedence. Sub-expressions in |
3148 | parentheses are evaluated first and may override the precedence | |
3149 | rules above. | |
3150 | .SH "CONDITIONAL EXPRESSIONS" | |
3151 | Conditional expressions are used by the \fB[[\fP compound command and | |
3152 | the \fBtest\fP and \fB[\fP builtin commands to test file attributes | |
3153 | and perform string and arithmetic comparisons. | |
3154 | Expressions are formed from the following unary or binary primaries. | |
3155 | If any \fIfile\fP argument to one of the primaries is of the form | |
bb70624e JA |
3156 | \fI/dev/fd/n\fP, then file descriptor \fIn\fP is checked. |
3157 | If the \fIfile\fP argument to one of the primaries is one of | |
3158 | \fI/dev/stdin\fP, \fI/dev/stdout\fP, or \fI/dev/stderr\fP, file | |
3159 | descriptor 0, 1, or 2, respectively, is checked. | |
cce855bc JA |
3160 | .sp 1 |
3161 | .PD 0 | |
3162 | .TP | |
3163 | .B \-a \fIfile\fP | |
3164 | True if \fIfile\fP exists. | |
3165 | .TP | |
3166 | .B \-b \fIfile\fP | |
3167 | True if \fIfile\fP exists and is a block special file. | |
3168 | .TP | |
3169 | .B \-c \fIfile\fP | |
3170 | True if \fIfile\fP exists and is a character special file. | |
3171 | .TP | |
3172 | .B \-d \fIfile\fP | |
3173 | True if \fIfile\fP exists and is a directory. | |
3174 | .TP | |
3175 | .B \-e \fIfile\fP | |
3176 | True if \fIfile\fP exists. | |
3177 | .TP | |
3178 | .B \-f \fIfile\fP | |
3179 | True if \fIfile\fP exists and is a regular file. | |
3180 | .TP | |
3181 | .B \-g \fIfile\fP | |
3182 | True if \fIfile\fP exists and is set-group-id. | |
3183 | .TP | |
b72432fd JA |
3184 | .B \-h \fIfile\fP |
3185 | True if \fIfile\fP exists and is a symbolic link. | |
3186 | .TP | |
cce855bc JA |
3187 | .B \-k \fIfile\fP |
3188 | True if \fIfile\fP exists and its ``sticky'' bit is set. | |
3189 | .TP | |
3190 | .B \-p \fIfile\fP | |
3191 | True if \fIfile\fP exists and is a named pipe (FIFO). | |
3192 | .TP | |
3193 | .B \-r \fIfile\fP | |
3194 | True if \fIfile\fP exists and is readable. | |
3195 | .TP | |
3196 | .B \-s \fIfile\fP | |
3197 | True if \fIfile\fP exists and has a size greater than zero. | |
3198 | .TP | |
3199 | .B \-t \fIfd\fP | |
3200 | True if file descriptor | |
3201 | .I fd | |
3202 | is open and refers to a terminal. | |
3203 | .TP | |
3204 | .B \-u \fIfile\fP | |
3205 | True if \fIfile\fP exists and its set-user-id bit is set. | |
3206 | .TP | |
3207 | .B \-w \fIfile\fP | |
3208 | True if \fIfile\fP exists and is writable. | |
3209 | .TP | |
3210 | .B \-x \fIfile\fP | |
3211 | True if \fIfile\fP exists and is executable. | |
3212 | .TP | |
3213 | .B \-O \fIfile\fP | |
3214 | True if \fIfile\fP exists and is owned by the effective user id. | |
3215 | .TP | |
3216 | .B \-G \fIfile\fP | |
3217 | True if \fIfile\fP exists and is owned by the effective group id. | |
3218 | .TP | |
3219 | .B \-L \fIfile\fP | |
3220 | True if \fIfile\fP exists and is a symbolic link. | |
3221 | .TP | |
3222 | .B \-S \fIfile\fP | |
3223 | True if \fIfile\fP exists and is a socket. | |
3224 | .TP | |
3225 | .B \-N \fIfile\fP | |
3226 | True if \fIfile\fP exists and has been modified since it was last read. | |
3227 | .TP | |
3228 | \fIfile1\fP \-\fBnt\fP \fIfile2\fP | |
3229 | True if \fIfile1\fP is newer (according to | |
3230 | modification date) than \fIfile2\fP. | |
3231 | .TP | |
3232 | \fIfile1\fP \-\fBot\fP \fIfile2\fP | |
3233 | True if \fIfile1\fP is older than \fIfile2\fP. | |
3234 | .TP | |
3235 | \fIfile1\fP \fB\-ef\fP \fIfile2\fP | |
3236 | True if \fIfile1\fP and \fIfile2\fP have the same device and | |
3237 | inode numbers. | |
3238 | .TP | |
3239 | .B \-o \fIoptname\fP | |
3240 | True if shell option | |
3241 | .I optname | |
3242 | is enabled. | |
3243 | See the list of options under the description of the | |
3244 | .B \-o | |
3245 | option to the | |
3246 | .B set | |
3247 | builtin below. | |
3248 | .TP | |
3249 | .B \-z \fIstring\fP | |
3250 | True if the length of \fIstring\fP is zero. | |
3251 | .TP | |
3252 | .B \-n \fIstring\fP | |
3253 | .TP | |
3254 | \fIstring\fP | |
3255 | True if the length of | |
3256 | .I string | |
3257 | is non-zero. | |
3258 | .TP | |
3259 | \fIstring1\fP \fB==\fP \fIstring2\fP | |
3260 | True if the strings are equal. \fB=\fP may be used in place of | |
3261 | \fB==\fP. | |
3262 | .TP | |
3263 | \fIstring1\fP \fB!=\fP \fIstring2\fP | |
3264 | True if the strings are not equal. | |
3265 | .TP | |
3266 | \fIstring1\fP \fB<\fP \fIstring2\fP | |
3267 | True if \fIstring1\fP sorts before \fIstring2\fP lexicographically | |
3268 | in the current locale. | |
3269 | .TP | |
3270 | \fIstring1\fP \fB>\fP \fIstring2\fP | |
3271 | True if \fIstring1\fP sorts after \fIstring2\fP lexicographically | |
3272 | in the current locale. | |
3273 | .TP | |
3274 | .I \fIarg1\fP \fBOP\fP \fIarg2\fP | |
3275 | .SM | |
3276 | .B OP | |
3277 | is one of | |
3278 | .BR \-eq , | |
3279 | .BR \-ne , | |
3280 | .BR \-lt , | |
3281 | .BR \-le , | |
3282 | .BR \-gt , | |
3283 | or | |
3284 | .BR \-ge . | |
3285 | These arithmetic binary operators return true if \fIarg1\fP | |
3286 | is equal to, not equal to, less than, less than or equal to, | |
3287 | greater than, or greater than or equal to \fIarg2\fP, respectively. | |
3288 | .I Arg1 | |
3289 | and | |
3290 | .I arg2 | |
3291 | may be positive or negative integers. | |
3292 | .PD | |
3293 | .SH "SIMPLE COMMAND EXPANSION" | |
3294 | When a simple command is executed, the shell performs the following | |
3295 | expansions, assignments, and redirections, from left to right. | |
3296 | .IP 1. | |
3297 | The words that the parser has marked as variable assignments (those | |
3298 | preceding the command name) and redirections are saved for later | |
3299 | processing. | |
3300 | .IP 2. | |
3301 | The words that are not variable assignments or redirections are | |
3302 | expanded. If any words remain after expansion, the first word | |
3303 | is taken to be the name of the command and the remaining words are | |
3304 | the arguments. | |
3305 | .IP 3. | |
3306 | Redirections are performed as described above under | |
3307 | .SM | |
3308 | .BR REDIRECTION . | |
3309 | .IP 4. | |
3310 | The text after the \fB=\fP in each variable assignment undergoes tilde | |
3311 | expansion, parameter expansion, command substitution, arithmetic expansion, | |
3312 | and quote removal before being assigned to the variable. | |
3313 | .PP | |
3314 | If no command name results, the variable assignments affect the current | |
3315 | shell environment. Otherwise, the variables are added to the environment | |
3316 | of the executed command and do not affect the current shell environment. | |
3317 | If any of the assignments attempts to assign a value to a readonly variable, | |
3318 | an error occurs, and the command exits with a non-zero status. | |
3319 | .PP | |
3320 | If no command name results, redirections are performed, but do not | |
3321 | affect the current shell environment. A redirection error causes the | |
3322 | command to exit with a non-zero status. | |
3323 | .PP | |
3324 | If there is a command name left after expansion, execution proceeds as | |
3325 | described below. Otherwise, the command exits. If one of the expansions | |
3326 | contained a command substitution, the exit status of the command is | |
3327 | the exit status of the last command substitution performed. If there | |
3328 | were no command substitutions, the command exits with a status of zero. | |
3329 | .SH "COMMAND EXECUTION" | |
3330 | After a command has been split into words, if it results in a | |
3331 | simple command and an optional list of arguments, the following | |
3332 | actions are taken. | |
3333 | .PP | |
3334 | If the command name contains no slashes, the shell attempts to | |
3335 | locate it. If there exists a shell function by that name, that | |
3336 | function is invoked as described above in | |
3337 | .SM | |
3338 | .BR FUNCTIONS . | |
3339 | If the name does not match a function, the shell searches for | |
3340 | it in the list of shell builtins. If a match is found, that | |
3341 | builtin is invoked. | |
3342 | .PP | |
3343 | If the name is neither a shell function nor a builtin, | |
3344 | and contains no slashes, | |
3345 | .B bash | |
3346 | searches each element of the | |
3347 | .SM | |
3348 | .B PATH | |
3349 | for a directory containing an executable file by that name. | |
3350 | .B Bash | |
bb70624e | 3351 | uses a hash table to remember the full pathnames of executable |
cce855bc JA |
3352 | files (see |
3353 | .B hash | |
3354 | under | |
3355 | .SM | |
3356 | .B "SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS" | |
3357 | below). | |
3358 | A full search of the directories in | |
3359 | .SM | |
3360 | .B PATH | |
3361 | is performed only if the command is not found in the hash table. | |
3362 | If the search is unsuccessful, the shell prints an error | |
3363 | message and returns an exit status of 127. | |
3364 | .PP | |
3365 | If the search is successful, or if the command name contains | |
3366 | one or more slashes, the shell executes the named program in a | |
3367 | separate execution environment. | |
3368 | Argument 0 is set to the name given, and the remaining arguments | |
3369 | to the command are set to the arguments given, if any. | |
3370 | .PP | |
3371 | If this execution fails because the file is not in executable | |
3372 | format, and the file is not a directory, it is assumed to be | |
3373 | a \fIshell script\fP, a file | |
3374 | containing shell commands. A subshell is spawned to execute | |
3375 | it. This subshell reinitializes itself, so | |
3376 | that the effect is as if a new shell had been invoked | |
3377 | to handle the script, with the exception that the locations of | |
3378 | commands remembered by the parent (see | |
3379 | .B hash | |
3380 | below under | |
3381 | .SM | |
3382 | \fBSHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS\fP) | |
3383 | are retained by the child. | |
3384 | .PP | |
3385 | If the program is a file beginning with | |
3386 | .BR #! , | |
3387 | the remainder of the first line specifies an interpreter | |
3388 | for the program. The shell executes the | |
3389 | specified interpreter on operating systems that do not | |
3390 | handle this executable format themselves. The arguments to the | |
3391 | interpreter consist of a single optional argument following the | |
3392 | interpreter name on the first line of the program, followed | |
3393 | by the name of the program, followed by the command | |
3394 | arguments, if any. | |
3395 | .SH COMMAND EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT | |
3396 | The shell has an \fIexecution environment\fP, which consists of the | |
3397 | following: | |
3398 | .sp 1 | |
3399 | .IP \(bu | |
3400 | open files inherited by the shell at invocation, as modified by | |
3401 | redirections supplied to the \fBexec\fP builtin | |
3402 | .IP \(bu | |
3403 | the current working directory as set by \fBcd\fP, \fBpushd\fP, or | |
3404 | \fBpopd\fP, or inherited by the shell at invocation | |
3405 | .IP \(bu | |
3406 | the file creation mode mask as set by \fBumask\fP or inherited from | |
3407 | the shell's parent | |
3408 | .IP \(bu | |
3409 | current traps set by \fBtrap\fP | |
3410 | .IP \(bu | |
3411 | shell parameters that are set by variable assignment or with \fBset\fP | |
3412 | or inherited from the shell's parent in the environment | |
3413 | .IP \(bu | |
3414 | shell functions defined during execution or inherited from the shell's | |
3415 | parent in the environment | |
3416 | .IP \(bu | |
3417 | options enabled at invocation (either by default or with command-line | |
3418 | arguments) or by \fBset\fP | |
3419 | .IP \(bu | |
3420 | options enabled by \fBshopt\fP | |
3421 | .IP \(bu | |
3422 | shell aliases defined with \fBalias\fP | |
3423 | .IP \(bu | |
3424 | various process IDs, including those of background jobs, the value | |
3425 | of \fB$$\fP, and the value of \fB$PPID\fP | |
3426 | .PP | |
3427 | When a simple command other than a builtin or shell function | |
3428 | is to be executed, it | |
3429 | is invoked in a separate execution environment that consists of | |
3430 | the following. Unless otherwise noted, the values are inherited | |
3431 | from the shell. | |
3432 | .sp 1 | |
3433 | .IP \(bu | |
3434 | the shell's open files, plus any modifications and additions specified | |
3435 | by redirections to the command | |
3436 | .IP \(bu | |
3437 | the current working directory | |
3438 | .IP \(bu | |
3439 | the file creation mode mask | |
3440 | .IP \(bu | |
3441 | shell variables marked for export, along with variables exported for | |
3442 | the command, passed in the environment | |
3443 | .IP \(bu | |
3444 | traps caught by the shell are reset to the values the inherited | |
3445 | from the shell's parent, and traps ignored by the shell are ignored | |
3446 | .PP | |
3447 | A command invoked in this separate environment cannot affect the | |
3448 | shell's execution environment. | |
3449 | .PP | |
3450 | Command substitution and asynchronous commands are invoked in a | |
3451 | subshell environment that is a duplicate of the shell environment, | |
3452 | except that traps caught by the shell are reset to the values | |
3453 | that the shell inherited from its parent at invocation. Builtin | |
3454 | commands that are invoked as part of a pipeline are also executed in a | |
3455 | subshell environment. Changes made to the subshell environment | |
3456 | cannot affect the shell's execution environment. | |
3457 | .SH ENVIRONMENT | |
3458 | When a program is invoked it is given an array of strings | |
3459 | called the | |
3460 | .IR environment . | |
3461 | This is a list of | |
3462 | \fIname\fP\-\fIvalue\fP pairs, of the form | |
3463 | .IR "name\fR=\fPvalue" . | |
3464 | .PP | |
bb70624e JA |
3465 | The shell provides several ways to manipulate the environment. |
3466 | On invocation, the shell scans its own environment and | |
cce855bc JA |
3467 | creates a parameter for each name found, automatically marking |
3468 | it for | |
3469 | .I export | |
3470 | to child processes. Executed commands inherit the environment. | |
3471 | The | |
3472 | .B export | |
3473 | and | |
3474 | .B declare \-x | |
3475 | commands allow parameters and functions to be added to and | |
3476 | deleted from the environment. If the value of a parameter | |
3477 | in the environment is modified, the new value becomes part | |
3478 | of the environment, replacing the old. The environment | |
3479 | inherited by any executed command consists of the shell's | |
3480 | initial environment, whose values may be modified in the shell, | |
3481 | less any pairs removed by the | |
3482 | .B unset | |
3483 | command, plus any additions via the | |
3484 | .B export | |
3485 | and | |
3486 | .B declare \-x | |
3487 | commands. | |
3488 | .PP | |
3489 | The environment for any | |
3490 | .I simple command | |
3491 | or function may be augmented temporarily by prefixing it with | |
3492 | parameter assignments, as described above in | |
3493 | .SM | |
3494 | .BR PARAMETERS . | |
3495 | These assignment statements affect only the environment seen | |
3496 | by that command. | |
3497 | .PP | |
3498 | If the | |
3499 | .B \-k | |
3500 | option is set (see the | |
3501 | .B set | |
3502 | builtin command below), then | |
3503 | .I all | |
3504 | parameter assignments are placed in the environment for a command, | |
3505 | not just those that precede the command name. | |
3506 | .PP | |
3507 | When | |
3508 | .B bash | |
3509 | invokes an external command, the variable | |
3510 | .B _ | |
3511 | is set to the full file name of the command and passed to that | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3512 | command in its environment. |
3513 | .SH "EXIT STATUS" | |
cce855bc | 3514 | For the shell's purposes, a command which exits with a |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3515 | zero exit status has succeeded. An exit status of zero |
3516 | indicates success. A non-zero exit status indicates failure. | |
bb70624e JA |
3517 | When a command terminates on a fatal signal \fIN\fP, \fBbash\fP uses |
3518 | the value of 128+\fIN\fP as the exit status. | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3519 | .PP |
3520 | If a command is not found, the child process created to | |
3521 | execute it returns a status of 127. If a command is found | |
3522 | but is not executable, the return status is 126. | |
3523 | .PP | |
cce855bc JA |
3524 | If a command fails because of an error during expansion or redirection, |
3525 | the exit status is greater than zero. | |
3526 | .PP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3527 | Shell builtin commands return a status of 0 (\fItrue\fP) if |
3528 | successful, and non-zero (\fIfalse\fP) if an error occurs | |
3529 | while they execute. | |
3530 | All builtins return an exit status of 2 to indicate incorrect usage. | |
3531 | .PP | |
3532 | \fBBash\fP itself returns the exit status of the last command | |
3533 | executed, unless a syntax error occurs, in which case it exits | |
3534 | with a non-zero value. See also the \fBexit\fP builtin | |
3535 | command below. | |
3536 | .SH SIGNALS | |
cce855bc | 3537 | When \fBbash\fP is interactive, in the absence of any traps, it ignores |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3538 | .SM |
3539 | .B SIGTERM | |
3540 | (so that \fBkill 0\fP does not kill an interactive shell), | |
3541 | and | |
3542 | .SM | |
3543 | .B SIGINT | |
3544 | is caught and handled (so that the \fBwait\fP builtin is interruptible). | |
3545 | In all cases, \fBbash\fP ignores | |
3546 | .SM | |
3547 | .BR SIGQUIT . | |
3548 | If job control is in effect, | |
3549 | .B bash | |
3550 | ignores | |
3551 | .SM | |
3552 | .BR SIGTTIN , | |
3553 | .SM | |
3554 | .BR SIGTTOU , | |
3555 | and | |
3556 | .SM | |
3557 | .BR SIGTSTP . | |
3558 | .PP | |
cce855bc JA |
3559 | Synchronous jobs started by \fBbash\fP have signal handlers |
3560 | set to the values inherited by the shell from its parent. | |
3561 | When job control is not in effect, asynchronous commands | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3562 | ignore |
3563 | .SM | |
3564 | .B SIGINT | |
3565 | and | |
3566 | .SM | |
cce855bc JA |
3567 | .B SIGQUIT |
3568 | as well. | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3569 | Commands run as a result of command substitution ignore the |
3570 | keyboard-generated job control signals | |
3571 | .SM | |
3572 | .BR SIGTTIN , | |
3573 | .SM | |
3574 | .BR SIGTTOU , | |
3575 | and | |
3576 | .SM | |
3577 | .BR SIGTSTP . | |
3578 | .PP | |
3579 | The shell exits by default upon receipt of a | |
3580 | .SM | |
3581 | .BR SIGHUP . | |
3582 | Before exiting, it resends the | |
3583 | .SM | |
3584 | .B SIGHUP | |
cce855bc JA |
3585 | to all jobs, running or stopped. |
3586 | Stopped jobs are sent | |
3587 | .SM | |
3588 | .B SIGCONT | |
3589 | to ensure that they receive the | |
3590 | .SM | |
3591 | .BR SIGHUP . | |
3592 | To prevent the shell from | |
3593 | sending the signal to a particular job, it should be removed from the | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3594 | jobs table with the |
3595 | .B disown | |
3596 | builtin (see | |
3597 | .SM | |
3598 | .B "SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS" | |
cce855bc JA |
3599 | below) or marked |
3600 | to not receive | |
ccc6cda3 | 3601 | .SM |
cce855bc JA |
3602 | .B SIGHUP |
3603 | using | |
3604 | .BR "disown \-h" . | |
3605 | .PP | |
3606 | If the | |
3607 | .B huponexit | |
3608 | shell option has been set with | |
3609 | .BR shopt , | |
3610 | .B bash | |
3611 | sends a | |
3612 | .SM | |
3613 | .B SIGHUP | |
3614 | to all jobs when an interactive login shell exits. | |
3615 | .PP | |
3616 | When \fBbash\fP receives a signal for which a trap has been set while | |
3617 | waiting for a command to complete, the trap will not be executed until | |
3618 | the command completes. | |
3619 | When \fBbash\fP is waiting for an asynchronous command via the \fBwait\fP | |
3620 | builtin, the reception of a signal for which a trap has been set will | |
3621 | cause the \fBwait\fP builtin to return immediately with an exit status | |
3622 | greater than 128, immediately after which the trap is executed. | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3623 | .SH "JOB CONTROL" |
3624 | .I Job control | |
3625 | refers to the ability to selectively stop (\fIsuspend\fP) | |
3626 | the execution of processes and continue (\fIresume\fP) | |
3627 | their execution at a later point. A user typically employs | |
3628 | this facility via an interactive interface supplied jointly | |
3629 | by the system's terminal driver and | |
3630 | .BR bash . | |
3631 | .PP | |
3632 | The shell associates a | |
3633 | .I job | |
3634 | with each pipeline. It keeps a table of currently executing | |
3635 | jobs, which may be listed with the | |
3636 | .B jobs | |
3637 | command. When | |
3638 | .B bash | |
3639 | starts a job asynchronously (in the | |
3640 | .IR background ), | |
3641 | it prints a line that looks like: | |
3642 | .RS | |
3643 | .PP | |
3644 | [1] 25647 | |
3645 | .RE | |
3646 | .PP | |
3647 | indicating that this job is job number 1 and that the process ID | |
3648 | of the last process in the pipeline associated with this job is 25647. | |
3649 | All of the processes in a single pipeline are members of the same job. | |
3650 | .B Bash | |
3651 | uses the | |
3652 | .I job | |
3653 | abstraction as the basis for job control. | |
3654 | .PP | |
3655 | To facilitate the implementation of the user interface to job | |
bb70624e | 3656 | control, the operating system maintains the notion of a \fIcurrent terminal |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3657 | process group ID\fP. Members of this process group (processes whose |
3658 | process group ID is equal to the current terminal process group ID) | |
3659 | receive keyboard-generated signals such as | |
3660 | .SM | |
3661 | .BR SIGINT . | |
3662 | These processes are said to be in the | |
3663 | .IR foreground . | |
3664 | .I Background | |
3665 | processes are those whose process group ID differs from the terminal's; | |
3666 | such processes are immune to keyboard-generated signals. | |
3667 | Only foreground processes are allowed to read from or write to the | |
3668 | terminal. Background processes which attempt to read from (write to) the | |
3669 | terminal are sent a | |
3670 | .SM | |
3671 | .B SIGTTIN (SIGTTOU) | |
3672 | signal by the terminal driver, | |
3673 | which, unless caught, suspends the process. | |
3674 | .PP | |
3675 | If the operating system on which | |
3676 | .B bash | |
3677 | is running supports | |
3678 | job control, | |
3679 | .B bash | |
bb70624e | 3680 | contains facilities to use it. |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3681 | Typing the |
3682 | .I suspend | |
3683 | character (typically | |
3684 | .BR ^Z , | |
3685 | Control-Z) while a process is running | |
bb70624e | 3686 | causes that process to be stopped and returns control to |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3687 | .BR bash . |
3688 | Typing the | |
3689 | .I "delayed suspend" | |
3690 | character (typically | |
3691 | .BR ^Y , | |
3692 | Control-Y) causes the process to be stopped when it | |
3693 | attempts to read input from the terminal, and control to | |
3694 | be returned to | |
3695 | .BR bash . | |
cce855bc | 3696 | The user may then manipulate the state of this job, using the |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3697 | .B bg |
3698 | command to continue it in the background, the | |
3699 | .B fg | |
3700 | command to continue it in the foreground, or | |
3701 | the | |
3702 | .B kill | |
3703 | command to kill it. A \fB^Z\fP takes effect immediately, | |
3704 | and has the additional side effect of causing pending output | |
3705 | and typeahead to be discarded. | |
3706 | .PP | |
3707 | There are a number of ways to refer to a job in the shell. | |
3708 | The character | |
3709 | .B % | |
3710 | introduces a job name. Job number | |
3711 | .I n | |
3712 | may be referred to as | |
3713 | .BR %n . | |
3714 | A job may also be referred to using a prefix of the name used to | |
3715 | start it, or using a substring that appears in its command line. | |
3716 | For example, | |
3717 | .B %ce | |
3718 | refers to a stopped | |
3719 | .B ce | |
3720 | job. If a prefix matches more than one job, | |
3721 | .B bash | |
3722 | reports an error. Using | |
3723 | .BR %?ce , | |
3724 | on the other hand, refers to any job containing the string | |
3725 | .B ce | |
3726 | in its command line. If the substring matches more than one job, | |
3727 | .B bash | |
3728 | reports an error. The symbols | |
3729 | .B %% | |
3730 | and | |
3731 | .B %+ | |
3732 | refer to the shell's notion of the | |
3733 | .IR "current job" , | |
3734 | which is the last job stopped while it was in | |
cce855bc | 3735 | the foreground or started in the background. |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3736 | The |
3737 | .I "previous job" | |
3738 | may be referenced using | |
3739 | .BR %\- . | |
3740 | In output pertaining to jobs (e.g., the output of the | |
3741 | .B jobs | |
3742 | command), the current job is always flagged with a | |
3743 | .BR + , | |
3744 | and the previous job with a | |
3745 | .BR \- . | |
726f6388 | 3746 | .PP |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3747 | Simply naming a job can be used to bring it into the |
3748 | foreground: | |
3749 | .B %1 | |
3750 | is a synonym for | |
3751 | \fB``fg %1''\fP, | |
3752 | bringing job 1 from the background into the foreground. | |
3753 | Similarly, | |
3754 | .B ``%1 &'' | |
3755 | resumes job 1 in the background, equivalent to | |
3756 | \fB``bg %1''\fP. | |
726f6388 | 3757 | .PP |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3758 | The shell learns immediately whenever a job changes state. |
3759 | Normally, | |
3760 | .B bash | |
3761 | waits until it is about to print a prompt before reporting | |
3762 | changes in a job's status so as to not interrupt | |
3763 | any other output. If the | |
3764 | .B \-b | |
3765 | option to the | |
726f6388 | 3766 | .B set |
ccc6cda3 | 3767 | builtin command |
cce855bc | 3768 | is enabled, |
726f6388 | 3769 | .B bash |
ccc6cda3 | 3770 | reports such changes immediately. |
726f6388 | 3771 | .PP |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3772 | If an attempt to exit |
3773 | .B bash | |
3774 | is made while jobs are stopped, the shell prints a warning message. The | |
3775 | .B jobs | |
3776 | command may then be used to inspect their status. | |
3777 | If a second attempt to exit is made without an intervening command, | |
3778 | the shell does not print another warning, and the stopped | |
3779 | jobs are terminated. | |
726f6388 JA |
3780 | .SH PROMPTING |
3781 | When executing interactively, | |
3782 | .B bash | |
3783 | displays the primary prompt | |
3784 | .SM | |
3785 | .B PS1 | |
3786 | when it is ready to read a command, and the secondary prompt | |
3787 | .SM | |
3788 | .B PS2 | |
3789 | when it needs more input to complete a command. | |
3790 | .B Bash | |
3791 | allows these prompt strings to be customized by inserting a number of | |
3792 | backslash-escaped special characters that are decoded as follows: | |
3793 | .RS | |
3794 | .PD 0 | |
3795 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3796 | .B \ea |
3797 | an ASCII bell character (07) | |
726f6388 JA |
3798 | .TP |
3799 | .B \ed | |
3800 | the date in "Weekday Month Date" format (e.g., "Tue May 26") | |
3801 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3802 | .B \ee |
3803 | an ASCII escape character (033) | |
3804 | .TP | |
3805 | .B \eh | |
3806 | the hostname up to the first `.' | |
3807 | .TP | |
3808 | .B \eH | |
3809 | the hostname | |
3810 | .TP | |
bb70624e JA |
3811 | .B \ej |
3812 | the number of jobs currently managed by the shell | |
3813 | .TP | |
3814 | .B \el | |
3815 | the basename of the shell's terminal device name | |
3816 | .TP | |
726f6388 JA |
3817 | .B \en |
3818 | newline | |
3819 | .TP | |
cce855bc JA |
3820 | .B \er |
3821 | carriage return | |
3822 | .TP | |
726f6388 JA |
3823 | .B \es |
3824 | the name of the shell, the basename of | |
3825 | .B $0 | |
3826 | (the portion following the final slash) | |
3827 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3828 | .B \et |
3829 | the current time in 24-hour HH:MM:SS format | |
726f6388 | 3830 | .TP |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3831 | .B \eT |
3832 | the current time in 12-hour HH:MM:SS format | |
3833 | .TP | |
3834 | .B \e@ | |
3835 | the current time in 12-hour am/pm format | |
726f6388 JA |
3836 | .TP |
3837 | .B \eu | |
3838 | the username of the current user | |
3839 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3840 | .B \ev |
3841 | the version of \fBbash\fP (e.g., 2.00) | |
726f6388 | 3842 | .TP |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3843 | .B \eV |
3844 | the release of \fBbash\fP, version + patchlevel (e.g., 2.00.0) | |
3845 | .TP | |
3846 | .B \ew | |
3847 | the current working directory | |
3848 | .TP | |
3849 | .B \eW | |
3850 | the basename of the current working directory | |
726f6388 JA |
3851 | .TP |
3852 | .B \e! | |
3853 | the history number of this command | |
3854 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3855 | .B \e# |
3856 | the command number of this command | |
3857 | .TP | |
726f6388 JA |
3858 | .B \e$ |
3859 | if the effective UID is 0, a | |
3860 | .BR # , | |
3861 | otherwise a | |
3862 | .B $ | |
3863 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3864 | .B \e\fInnn\fP |
3865 | the character corresponding to the octal number \fInnn\fP | |
726f6388 JA |
3866 | .TP |
3867 | .B \e\e | |
3868 | a backslash | |
3869 | .TP | |
3870 | .B \e[ | |
3871 | begin a sequence of non-printing characters, which could be used to | |
3872 | embed a terminal control sequence into the prompt | |
3873 | .TP | |
3874 | .B \e] | |
3875 | end a sequence of non-printing characters | |
3876 | .PD | |
3877 | .RE | |
3878 | .PP | |
3879 | The command number and the history number are usually different: | |
3880 | the history number of a command is its position in the history | |
3881 | list, which may include commands restored from the history file | |
3882 | (see | |
3883 | .SM | |
3884 | .B HISTORY | |
3885 | below), while the command number is the position in the sequence | |
3886 | of commands executed during the current shell session. | |
3887 | After the string is decoded, it is expanded via | |
bb70624e JA |
3888 | parameter expansion, command substitution, arithmetic |
3889 | expansion, and quote removal, subject to the value of the | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3890 | .B promptvars |
3891 | shell option (see the description of the | |
3892 | .B shopt | |
3893 | command under | |
3894 | .SM | |
3895 | .B "SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS" | |
3896 | below). | |
726f6388 JA |
3897 | .SH READLINE |
3898 | This is the library that handles reading input when using an interactive | |
3899 | shell, unless the | |
d166f048 | 3900 | .B \-\-noediting |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3901 | option is given at shell invocation. |
3902 | By default, the line editing commands are similar to those of emacs. | |
726f6388 | 3903 | A vi-style line editing interface is also available. |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3904 | To turn off line editing after the shell is running, use the |
3905 | .B +o emacs | |
3906 | or | |
3907 | .B +o vi | |
3908 | options to the | |
3909 | .B set | |
3910 | builtin (see | |
3911 | .SM | |
3912 | .B SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS | |
3913 | below). | |
3914 | .SS "Readline Notation" | |
726f6388 JA |
3915 | .PP |
3916 | In this section, the emacs-style notation is used to denote | |
3917 | keystrokes. Control keys are denoted by C\-\fIkey\fR, e.g., C\-n | |
3918 | means Control\-N. Similarly, | |
3919 | .I meta | |
3920 | keys are denoted by M\-\fIkey\fR, so M\-x means Meta\-X. (On keyboards | |
3921 | without a | |
3922 | .I meta | |
3923 | key, M\-\fIx\fP means ESC \fIx\fP, i.e., press the Escape key | |
3924 | then the | |
3925 | .I x | |
3926 | key. This makes ESC the \fImeta prefix\fP. | |
3927 | The combination M\-C\-\fIx\fP means ESC\-Control\-\fIx\fP, | |
3928 | or press the Escape key | |
3929 | then hold the Control key while pressing the | |
3930 | .I x | |
3931 | key.) | |
3932 | .PP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3933 | Readline commands may be given numeric |
3934 | .IR arguments , | |
3935 | which normally act as a repeat count. | |
3936 | Sometimes, however, it is the sign of the argument that is significant. | |
3937 | Passing a negative argument to a command that acts in the forward | |
3938 | direction (e.g., \fBkill\-line\fP) causes that command to act in a | |
3939 | backward direction. | |
3940 | Commands whose behavior with arguments deviates from this are noted | |
3941 | below. | |
3942 | .PP | |
3943 | When a command is described as \fIkilling\fP text, the text | |
3944 | deleted is saved for possible future retrieval | |
3945 | (\fIyanking\fP). The killed text is saved in a | |
3946 | \fIkill ring\fP. Consecutive kills cause the text to be | |
3947 | accumulated into one unit, which can be yanked all at once. | |
3948 | Commands which do not kill text separate the chunks of text | |
3949 | on the kill ring. | |
3950 | .SS "Readline Initialization" | |
3951 | .PP | |
3952 | Readline is customized by putting commands in an initialization | |
3953 | file (the \fIinputrc\fP file). | |
3954 | The name of this file is taken from the value of the | |
726f6388 | 3955 | .SM |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3956 | .B INPUTRC |
3957 | variable. If that variable is unset, the default is | |
726f6388 | 3958 | .IR ~/.inputrc . |
ccc6cda3 JA |
3959 | When a program which uses the readline library starts up, the |
3960 | initialization file is read, and the key bindings and variables | |
3961 | are set. | |
3962 | There are only a few basic constructs allowed in the | |
3963 | readline initialization file. | |
3964 | Blank lines are ignored. | |
3965 | Lines beginning with a \fB#\fP are comments. | |
3966 | Lines beginning with a \fB$\fP indicate conditional constructs. | |
3967 | Other lines denote key bindings and variable settings. | |
3968 | .PP | |
3969 | The default key-bindings may be changed with an | |
3970 | .I inputrc | |
3971 | file. | |
726f6388 JA |
3972 | Other programs that use this library may add their own commands |
3973 | and bindings. | |
3974 | .PP | |
3975 | For example, placing | |
3976 | .RS | |
3977 | .PP | |
3978 | M\-Control\-u: universal\-argument | |
3979 | .RE | |
3980 | or | |
3981 | .RS | |
3982 | C\-Meta\-u: universal\-argument | |
3983 | .RE | |
3984 | into the | |
ccc6cda3 | 3985 | .I inputrc |
726f6388 JA |
3986 | would make M\-C\-u execute the readline command |
3987 | .IR universal\-argument . | |
3988 | .PP | |
3989 | The following symbolic character names are recognized: | |
3990 | .IR RUBOUT , | |
3991 | .IR DEL , | |
3992 | .IR ESC , | |
3993 | .IR LFD , | |
3994 | .IR NEWLINE , | |
3995 | .IR RET , | |
3996 | .IR RETURN , | |
3997 | .IR SPC , | |
3998 | .IR SPACE , | |
3999 | and | |
4000 | .IR TAB . | |
bb70624e | 4001 | .PP |
726f6388 JA |
4002 | In addition to command names, readline allows keys to be bound |
4003 | to a string that is inserted when the key is pressed (a \fImacro\fP). | |
ccc6cda3 | 4004 | .SS "Readline Key Bindings" |
726f6388 JA |
4005 | .PP |
4006 | The syntax for controlling key bindings in the | |
cce855bc | 4007 | .I inputrc |
726f6388 JA |
4008 | file is simple. All that is required is the name of the |
4009 | command or the text of a macro and a key sequence to which | |
4010 | it should be bound. The name may be specified in one of two ways: | |
ccc6cda3 | 4011 | as a symbolic key name, possibly with \fIMeta\-\fP or \fIControl\-\fP |
726f6388 | 4012 | prefixes, or as a key sequence. |
28ef6c31 | 4013 | .PP |
cce855bc | 4014 | When using the form \fBkeyname\fP:\^\fIfunction\-name\fP or \fImacro\fP, |
726f6388 JA |
4015 | .I keyname |
4016 | is the name of a key spelled out in English. For example: | |
4017 | .sp | |
4018 | .RS | |
4019 | Control-u: universal\-argument | |
4020 | .br | |
4021 | Meta-Rubout: backward-kill-word | |
4022 | .br | |
ccc6cda3 | 4023 | Control-o: "> output" |
726f6388 JA |
4024 | .RE |
4025 | .LP | |
4026 | In the above example, | |
ccc6cda3 | 4027 | .I C\-u |
726f6388 JA |
4028 | is bound to the function |
4029 | .BR universal\-argument , | |
ccc6cda3 | 4030 | .I M\-DEL |
726f6388 JA |
4031 | is bound to the function |
4032 | .BR backward\-kill\-word , | |
4033 | and | |
ccc6cda3 | 4034 | .I C\-o |
726f6388 JA |
4035 | is bound to run the macro |
4036 | expressed on the right hand side (that is, to insert the text | |
28ef6c31 JA |
4037 | .if t \f(CW> output\fP |
4038 | .if n ``> output'' | |
726f6388 JA |
4039 | into the line). |
4040 | .PP | |
cce855bc | 4041 | In the second form, \fB"keyseq"\fP:\^\fIfunction\-name\fP or \fImacro\fP, |
726f6388 JA |
4042 | .B keyseq |
4043 | differs from | |
4044 | .B keyname | |
4045 | above in that strings denoting | |
4046 | an entire key sequence may be specified by placing the sequence | |
4047 | within double quotes. Some GNU Emacs style key escapes can be | |
28ef6c31 JA |
4048 | used, as in the following example, but the symbolic character names |
4049 | are not recognized. | |
726f6388 JA |
4050 | .sp |
4051 | .RS | |
ccc6cda3 | 4052 | "\eC\-u": universal\-argument |
726f6388 | 4053 | .br |
ccc6cda3 | 4054 | "\eC\-x\eC\-r": re\-read\-init\-file |
726f6388 JA |
4055 | .br |
4056 | "\ee[11~": "Function Key 1" | |
4057 | .RE | |
4058 | .PP | |
4059 | In this example, | |
ccc6cda3 | 4060 | .I C\-u |
726f6388 JA |
4061 | is again bound to the function |
4062 | .BR universal\-argument . | |
ccc6cda3 | 4063 | .I "C\-x C\-r" |
726f6388 JA |
4064 | is bound to the function |
4065 | .BR re\-read\-init\-file , | |
4066 | and | |
4067 | .I "ESC [ 1 1 ~" | |
4068 | is bound to insert the text | |
28ef6c31 JA |
4069 | .if t \f(CWFunction Key 1\fP. |
4070 | .if n ``Function Key 1''. | |
4071 | .PP | |
cce855bc | 4072 | The full set of GNU Emacs style escape sequences is |
726f6388 | 4073 | .RS |
cce855bc | 4074 | .PD 0 |
726f6388 JA |
4075 | .TP |
4076 | .B \eC\- | |
4077 | control prefix | |
4078 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 | 4079 | .B \eM\- |
726f6388 JA |
4080 | meta prefix |
4081 | .TP | |
4082 | .B \ee | |
4083 | an escape character | |
4084 | .TP | |
4085 | .B \e\e | |
4086 | backslash | |
4087 | .TP | |
4088 | .B \e" | |
4089 | literal " | |
4090 | .TP | |
4091 | .B \e' | |
4092 | literal ' | |
4093 | .RE | |
cce855bc JA |
4094 | .PD |
4095 | .PP | |
4096 | In addition to the GNU Emacs style escape sequences, a second | |
4097 | set of backslash escapes is available: | |
4098 | .RS | |
4099 | .PD 0 | |
4100 | .TP | |
4101 | .B \ea | |
4102 | alert (bell) | |
4103 | .TP | |
4104 | .B \eb | |
4105 | backspace | |
4106 | .TP | |
4107 | .B \ed | |
4108 | delete | |
4109 | .TP | |
4110 | .B \ef | |
4111 | form feed | |
4112 | .TP | |
4113 | .B \en | |
4114 | newline | |
4115 | .TP | |
4116 | .B \er | |
4117 | carriage return | |
4118 | .TP | |
4119 | .B \et | |
4120 | horizontal tab | |
4121 | .TP | |
4122 | .B \ev | |
4123 | vertical tab | |
4124 | .TP | |
4125 | .B \e\fInnn\fP | |
4126 | the character whose ASCII code is the octal value \fInnn\fP | |
4127 | (one to three digits) | |
4128 | .TP | |
4129 | .B \ex\fInnn\fP | |
4130 | the character whose ASCII code is the hexadecimal value \fInnn\fP | |
4131 | (one to three digits) | |
4132 | .RE | |
4133 | .PD | |
726f6388 | 4134 | .PP |
cce855bc JA |
4135 | When entering the text of a macro, single or double quotes must |
4136 | be used to indicate a macro definition. | |
4137 | Unquoted text is assumed to be a function name. | |
4138 | In the macro body, the backslash escapes described above are expanded. | |
4139 | Backslash will quote any other character in the macro text, | |
4140 | including " and '. | |
726f6388 JA |
4141 | .PP |
4142 | .B Bash | |
4143 | allows the current readline key bindings to be displayed or modified | |
4144 | with the | |
4145 | .B bind | |
4146 | builtin command. The editing mode may be switched during interactive | |
4147 | use by using the | |
4148 | .B \-o | |
4149 | option to the | |
4150 | .B set | |
4151 | builtin command (see | |
4152 | .SM | |
4153 | .B SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS | |
4154 | below). | |
ccc6cda3 | 4155 | .SS "Readline Variables" |
726f6388 JA |
4156 | .PP |
4157 | Readline has variables that can be used to further customize its | |
4158 | behavior. A variable may be set in the | |
4159 | .I inputrc | |
4160 | file with a statement of the form | |
4161 | .RS | |
4162 | .PP | |
4163 | \fBset\fP \fIvariable\-name\fP \fIvalue\fP | |
4164 | .RE | |
4165 | .PP | |
4166 | Except where noted, readline variables can take the values | |
4167 | .B On | |
4168 | or | |
4169 | .BR Off . | |
4170 | The variables and their default values are: | |
4171 | .PP | |
4172 | .PD 0 | |
4173 | .TP | |
726f6388 JA |
4174 | .B bell\-style (audible) |
4175 | Controls what happens when readline wants to ring the terminal bell. | |
4176 | If set to \fBnone\fP, readline never rings the bell. If set to | |
4177 | \fBvisible\fP, readline uses a visible bell if one is available. | |
4178 | If set to \fBaudible\fP, readline attempts to ring the terminal's bell. | |
4179 | .TP | |
4180 | .B comment\-begin (``#'') | |
bb70624e | 4181 | The string that is inserted when the readline |
ccc6cda3 | 4182 | .B insert\-comment |
726f6388 | 4183 | command is executed. |
ccc6cda3 JA |
4184 | This command is bound to |
4185 | .B M\-# | |
4186 | in emacs mode and to | |
4187 | .B # | |
4188 | in vi command mode. | |
726f6388 | 4189 | .TP |
cce855bc JA |
4190 | .B completion\-ignore\-case (Off) |
4191 | If set to \fBOn\fP, readline performs filename matching and completion | |
4192 | in a case\-insensitive fashion. | |
4193 | .TP | |
726f6388 JA |
4194 | .B completion\-query\-items (100) |
4195 | This determines when the user is queried about viewing | |
4196 | the number of possible completions | |
4197 | generated by the \fBpossible\-completions\fP command. | |
4198 | It may be set to any integer value greater than or equal to | |
4199 | zero. If the number of possible completions is greater than | |
4200 | or equal to the value of this variable, the user is asked whether | |
4201 | or not he wishes to view them; otherwise they are simply listed | |
4202 | on the terminal. | |
4203 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
4204 | .B convert\-meta (On) |
4205 | If set to \fBOn\fP, readline will convert characters with the | |
4206 | eighth bit set to an ASCII key sequence | |
bb70624e | 4207 | by stripping the eighth bit and prefixing an |
ccc6cda3 JA |
4208 | escape character (in effect, using escape as the \fImeta prefix\fP). |
4209 | .TP | |
4210 | .B disable\-completion (Off) | |
4211 | If set to \fBOn\fP, readline will inhibit word completion. Completion | |
4212 | characters will be inserted into the line as if they had been | |
4213 | mapped to \fBself-insert\fP. | |
4214 | .TP | |
4215 | .B editing\-mode (emacs) | |
4216 | Controls whether readline begins with a set of key bindings similar | |
4217 | to \fIemacs\fP or \fIvi\fP. | |
4218 | .B editing\-mode | |
4219 | can be set to either | |
4220 | .B emacs | |
4221 | or | |
4222 | .BR vi . | |
4223 | .TP | |
4224 | .B enable\-keypad (Off) | |
4225 | When set to \fBOn\fP, readline will try to enable the application | |
4226 | keypad when it is called. Some systems need this to enable the | |
4227 | arrow keys. | |
4228 | .TP | |
4229 | .B expand\-tilde (Off) | |
4230 | If set to \fBon\fP, tilde expansion is performed when readline | |
4231 | attempts word completion. | |
4232 | .TP | |
4233 | .B horizontal\-scroll\-mode (Off) | |
4234 | When set to \fBOn\fP, makes readline use a single line for display, | |
4235 | scrolling the input horizontally on a single screen line when it | |
4236 | becomes longer than the screen width rather than wrapping to a new line. | |
4237 | .TP | |
4238 | .B input\-meta (Off) | |
4239 | If set to \fBOn\fP, readline will enable eight-bit input (that is, | |
4240 | it will not strip the high bit from the characters it reads), | |
4241 | regardless of what the terminal claims it can support. The name | |
4242 | .B meta\-flag | |
4243 | is a synonym for this variable. | |
4244 | .TP | |
b72432fd JA |
4245 | .B isearch\-terminators (``C\-[C\-J'') |
4246 | The string of characters that should terminate an incremental | |
4247 | search without subsequently executing the character as a command. | |
4248 | If this variable has not been given a value, the characters | |
4249 | \fIESC\fP and \fIC\-J\fP will terminate an incremental search. | |
4250 | .TP | |
726f6388 | 4251 | .B keymap (emacs) |
cce855bc | 4252 | Set the current readline keymap. The set of valid keymap names is |
ccc6cda3 JA |
4253 | \fIemacs, emacs\-standard, emacs\-meta, emacs\-ctlx, vi, |
4254 | vi\-command\fP, and | |
4255 | .IR vi\-insert . | |
4256 | \fIvi\fP is equivalent to \fIvi\-command\fP; \fIemacs\fP is | |
4257 | equivalent to \fIemacs\-standard\fP. The default value is | |
726f6388 JA |
4258 | .IR emacs ; |
4259 | the value of | |
4260 | .B editing\-mode | |
4261 | also affects the default keymap. | |
4262 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
4263 | .B mark\-directories (On) |
4264 | If set to \fBOn\fP, completed directory names have a slash | |
4265 | appended. | |
4266 | .TP | |
4267 | .B mark\-modified\-lines (Off) | |
4268 | If set to \fBOn\fP, history lines that have been modified are displayed | |
4269 | with a preceding asterisk (\fB*\fP). | |
4270 | .TP | |
4271 | .B output\-meta (Off) | |
4272 | If set to \fBOn\fP, readline will display characters with the | |
4273 | eighth bit set directly rather than as a meta-prefixed escape | |
4274 | sequence. | |
4275 | .TP | |
cce855bc JA |
4276 | .B print\-completions\-horizontally (Off) |
4277 | If set to \fBOn\fP, readline will display completions with matches | |
4278 | sorted horizontally in alphabetical order, rather than down the screen. | |
4279 | .TP | |
726f6388 JA |
4280 | .B show\-all\-if\-ambiguous (Off) |
4281 | This alters the default behavior of the completion functions. If | |
4282 | set to | |
4283 | .BR on , | |
4284 | words which have more than one possible completion cause the | |
4285 | matches to be listed immediately instead of ringing the bell. | |
4286 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
4287 | .B visible\-stats (Off) |
4288 | If set to \fBOn\fP, a character denoting a file's type as reported | |
4289 | by \fIstat\fP(2) is appended to the filename when listing possible | |
4290 | completions. | |
726f6388 | 4291 | .PD |
ccc6cda3 | 4292 | .SS "Readline Conditional Constructs" |
726f6388 JA |
4293 | .PP |
4294 | Readline implements a facility similar in spirit to the conditional | |
4295 | compilation features of the C preprocessor which allows key | |
4296 | bindings and variable settings to be performed as the result | |
cce855bc | 4297 | of tests. There are four parser directives used. |
726f6388 JA |
4298 | .IP \fB$if\fP |
4299 | The | |
4300 | .B $if | |
4301 | construct allows bindings to be made based on the | |
4302 | editing mode, the terminal being used, or the application using | |
4303 | readline. The text of the test extends to the end of the line; | |
4304 | no characters are required to isolate it. | |
4305 | .RS | |
4306 | .IP \fBmode\fP | |
4307 | The \fBmode=\fP form of the \fB$if\fP directive is used to test | |
4308 | whether readline is in emacs or vi mode. | |
4309 | This may be used in conjunction | |
4310 | with the \fBset keymap\fP command, for instance, to set bindings in | |
ccc6cda3 | 4311 | the \fIemacs\-standard\fP and \fIemacs\-ctlx\fP keymaps only if |
726f6388 JA |
4312 | readline is starting out in emacs mode. |
4313 | .IP \fBterm\fP | |
4314 | The \fBterm=\fP form may be used to include terminal-specific | |
4315 | key bindings, perhaps to bind the key sequences output by the | |
4316 | terminal's function keys. The word on the right side of the | |
4317 | .B = | |
cce855bc | 4318 | is tested against the both full name of the terminal and the portion |
726f6388 JA |
4319 | of the terminal name before the first \fB\-\fP. This allows |
4320 | .I sun | |
4321 | to match both | |
4322 | .I sun | |
4323 | and | |
4324 | .IR sun\-cmd , | |
4325 | for instance. | |
4326 | .IP \fBapplication\fP | |
4327 | The \fBapplication\fP construct is used to include | |
ccc6cda3 | 4328 | application-specific settings. Each program using the readline |
726f6388 JA |
4329 | library sets the \fIapplication name\fP, and an initialization |
4330 | file can test for a particular value. | |
4331 | This could be used to bind key sequences to functions useful for | |
4332 | a specific program. For instance, the following command adds a | |
4333 | key sequence that quotes the current or previous word in Bash: | |
cce855bc | 4334 | .sp 1 |
726f6388 JA |
4335 | .RS |
4336 | .nf | |
4337 | \fB$if\fP Bash | |
4338 | # Quote the current or previous word | |
ccc6cda3 | 4339 | "\eC\-xq": "\eeb\e"\eef\e"" |
726f6388 JA |
4340 | \fB$endif\fP |
4341 | .fi | |
4342 | .RE | |
4343 | .RE | |
4344 | .IP \fB$endif\fP | |
cce855bc | 4345 | This command, as seen in the previous example, terminates an |
726f6388 JA |
4346 | \fB$if\fP command. |
4347 | .IP \fB$else\fP | |
4348 | Commands in this branch of the \fB$if\fP directive are executed if | |
4349 | the test fails. | |
cce855bc JA |
4350 | .IP \fB$include\fP |
4351 | This directive takes a single filename as an argument and reads commands | |
4352 | and bindings from that file. For example, the following directive | |
4353 | would read \fI/etc/inputrc\fP: | |
4354 | .sp 1 | |
4355 | .RS | |
4356 | .nf | |
4357 | \fB$include\fP \^ \fI/etc/inputrc\fP | |
4358 | .fi | |
4359 | .RE | |
ccc6cda3 | 4360 | .SS Searching |
726f6388 | 4361 | .PP |
ccc6cda3 JA |
4362 | Readline provides commands for searching through the command history |
4363 | (see | |
4364 | .SM | |
4365 | .B HISTORY | |
4366 | below) for lines containing a specified string. | |
4367 | There are two search modes: | |
4368 | .I incremental | |
4369 | and | |
4370 | .IR non-incremental . | |
4371 | .PP | |
4372 | Incremental searches begin before the user has finished typing the | |
4373 | search string. | |
4374 | As each character of the search string is typed, readline displays | |
4375 | the next entry from the history matching the string typed so far. | |
4376 | An incremental search requires only as many characters as needed to | |
4377 | find the desired history entry. | |
bb70624e | 4378 | The characters present in the value of the \fBisearch-terminators\fP |
b72432fd JA |
4379 | variable are used to terminate an incremental search. |
4380 | If that variable has not been assigned a value the Escape and | |
4381 | Control-J characters will terminate an incremental search. | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
4382 | Control-G will abort an incremental search and restore the original |
4383 | line. | |
4384 | When the search is terminated, the history entry containing the | |
4385 | search string becomes the current line. | |
bb70624e | 4386 | .PP |
ccc6cda3 JA |
4387 | To find other matching entries in the history list, type Control-S or |
4388 | Control-R as appropriate. | |
4389 | This will search backward or forward in the history for the next | |
4390 | entry matching the search string typed so far. | |
4391 | Any other key sequence bound to a readline command will terminate | |
4392 | the search and execute that command. | |
4393 | For instance, a \fInewline\fP will terminate the search and accept | |
4394 | the line, thereby executing the command from the history list. | |
4395 | .PP | |
4396 | Non-incremental searches read the entire search string before starting | |
4397 | to search for matching history lines. The search string may be | |
cce855bc | 4398 | typed by the user or be part of the contents of the current line. |
ccc6cda3 | 4399 | .SS "Readline Command Names" |
726f6388 JA |
4400 | .PP |
4401 | The following is a list of the names of the commands and the default | |
4402 | key sequences to which they are bound. | |
ccc6cda3 | 4403 | Command names without an accompanying key sequence are unbound by default. |
bb70624e JA |
4404 | In the following descriptions, \fIpoint\fP refers to the current cursor |
4405 | position, and \fImark\fP refers to a cursor position saved by the | |
4406 | \fBset\-mark\fP command. | |
4407 | The text between the point and mark is referred to as the \fIregion\fP. | |
726f6388 JA |
4408 | .SS Commands for Moving |
4409 | .PP | |
4410 | .PD 0 | |
4411 | .TP | |
4412 | .B beginning\-of\-line (C\-a) | |
4413 | Move to the start of the current line. | |
4414 | .TP | |
4415 | .B end\-of\-line (C\-e) | |
4416 | Move to the end of the line. | |
4417 | .TP | |
4418 | .B forward\-char (C\-f) | |
4419 | Move forward a character. | |
4420 | .TP | |
4421 | .B backward\-char (C\-b) | |
4422 | Move back a character. | |
4423 | .TP | |
4424 | .B forward\-word (M\-f) | |
4425 | Move forward to the end of the next word. Words are composed of | |
4426 | alphanumeric characters (letters and digits). | |
4427 | .TP | |
4428 | .B backward\-word (M\-b) | |
bb70624e | 4429 | Move back to the start of the current or previous word. Words are |
726f6388 JA |
4430 | composed of alphanumeric characters (letters and digits). |
4431 | .TP | |
4432 | .B clear\-screen (C\-l) | |
4433 | Clear the screen leaving the current line at the top of the screen. | |
4434 | With an argument, refresh the current line without clearing the | |
4435 | screen. | |
4436 | .TP | |
4437 | .B redraw\-current\-line | |
ccc6cda3 | 4438 | Refresh the current line. |
726f6388 JA |
4439 | .PD |
4440 | .SS Commands for Manipulating the History | |
4441 | .PP | |
4442 | .PD 0 | |
4443 | .TP | |
4444 | .B accept\-line (Newline, Return) | |
4445 | Accept the line regardless of where the cursor is. If this line is | |
ccc6cda3 | 4446 | non-empty, add it to the history list according to the state of the |
726f6388 JA |
4447 | .SM |
4448 | .B HISTCONTROL | |
4449 | variable. If the line is a modified history | |
4450 | line, then restore the history line to its original state. | |
4451 | .TP | |
4452 | .B previous\-history (C\-p) | |
4453 | Fetch the previous command from the history list, moving back in | |
4454 | the list. | |
4455 | .TP | |
4456 | .B next\-history (C\-n) | |
4457 | Fetch the next command from the history list, moving forward in the | |
4458 | list. | |
4459 | .TP | |
4460 | .B beginning\-of\-history (M\-<) | |
4461 | Move to the first line in the history. | |
4462 | .TP | |
4463 | .B end\-of\-history (M\->) | |
4464 | Move to the end of the input history, i.e., the line currently being | |
4465 | entered. | |
4466 | .TP | |
4467 | .B reverse\-search\-history (C\-r) | |
4468 | Search backward starting at the current line and moving `up' through | |
4469 | the history as necessary. This is an incremental search. | |
4470 | .TP | |
4471 | .B forward\-search\-history (C\-s) | |
4472 | Search forward starting at the current line and moving `down' through | |
4473 | the history as necessary. This is an incremental search. | |
4474 | .TP | |
4475 | .B non\-incremental\-reverse\-search\-history (M\-p) | |
4476 | Search backward through the history starting at the current line | |
ccc6cda3 | 4477 | using a non-incremental search for a string supplied by the user. |
726f6388 JA |
4478 | .TP |
4479 | .B non\-incremental\-forward\-search\-history (M\-n) | |
ccc6cda3 | 4480 | Search forward through the history using a non-incremental search for |
726f6388 JA |
4481 | a string supplied by the user. |
4482 | .TP | |
4483 | .B history\-search\-forward | |
4484 | Search forward through the history for the string of characters | |
bb70624e | 4485 | between the start of the current line and the point. |
ccc6cda3 | 4486 | This is a non-incremental search. |
726f6388 JA |
4487 | .TP |
4488 | .B history\-search\-backward | |
4489 | Search backward through the history for the string of characters | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
4490 | between the start of the current line and the point. |
4491 | This is a non-incremental search. | |
726f6388 JA |
4492 | .TP |
4493 | .B yank\-nth\-arg (M\-C\-y) | |
4494 | Insert the first argument to the previous command (usually | |
28ef6c31 JA |
4495 | the second word on the previous line) at point. |
4496 | With an argument | |
726f6388 JA |
4497 | .IR n , |
4498 | insert the \fIn\fPth word from the previous command (the words | |
4499 | in the previous command begin with word 0). A negative argument | |
4500 | inserts the \fIn\fPth word from the end of the previous command. | |
4501 | .TP | |
4502 | .B | |
4503 | yank\-last\-arg (M\-.\^, M\-_\^) | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
4504 | Insert the last argument to the previous command (the last word of |
4505 | the previous history entry). With an argument, | |
4506 | behave exactly like \fByank\-nth\-arg\fP. | |
cce855bc JA |
4507 | Successive calls to \fByank\-last\-arg\fP move back through the history |
4508 | list, inserting the last argument of each line in turn. | |
726f6388 JA |
4509 | .TP |
4510 | .B shell\-expand\-line (M\-C\-e) | |
cce855bc | 4511 | Expand the line as the shell does. This |
726f6388 JA |
4512 | performs alias and history expansion as well as all of the shell |
4513 | word expansions. See | |
4514 | .SM | |
4515 | .B HISTORY EXPANSION | |
4516 | below for a description of history expansion. | |
4517 | .TP | |
4518 | .B history\-expand\-line (M\-^) | |
d166f048 JA |
4519 | Perform history expansion on the current line. |
4520 | See | |
726f6388 JA |
4521 | .SM |
4522 | .B HISTORY EXPANSION | |
4523 | below for a description of history expansion. | |
4524 | .TP | |
cce855bc JA |
4525 | .B magic\-space |
4526 | Perform history expansion on the current line and insert a space. | |
4527 | See | |
4528 | .SM | |
4529 | .B HISTORY EXPANSION | |
4530 | below for a description of history expansion. | |
4531 | .TP | |
d166f048 JA |
4532 | .B alias\-expand\-line |
4533 | Perform alias expansion on the current line. | |
4534 | See | |
4535 | .SM | |
4536 | .B ALIASES | |
4537 | above for a description of alias expansion. | |
4538 | .TP | |
4539 | .B history\-and\-alias\-expand\-line | |
4540 | Perform history and alias expansion on the current line. | |
4541 | .TP | |
726f6388 JA |
4542 | .B insert\-last\-argument (M\-.\^, M\-_\^) |
4543 | A synonym for \fByank\-last\-arg\fP. | |
4544 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 | 4545 | .B operate\-and\-get\-next (C\-o) |
726f6388 JA |
4546 | Accept the current line for execution and fetch the next line |
4547 | relative to the current line from the history for editing. Any | |
4548 | argument is ignored. | |
4549 | .PD | |
4550 | .SS Commands for Changing Text | |
4551 | .PP | |
4552 | .PD 0 | |
4553 | .TP | |
4554 | .B delete\-char (C\-d) | |
28ef6c31 | 4555 | Delete the character at point. If point is at the |
726f6388 | 4556 | beginning of the line, there are no characters in the line, and |
cce855bc | 4557 | the last character typed was not bound to \fBdelete\-char\fP, |
726f6388 JA |
4558 | then return |
4559 | .SM | |
4560 | .BR EOF . | |
4561 | .TP | |
4562 | .B backward\-delete\-char (Rubout) | |
4563 | Delete the character behind the cursor. When given a numeric argument, | |
ccc6cda3 | 4564 | save the deleted text on the kill ring. |
726f6388 | 4565 | .TP |
b72432fd JA |
4566 | .B forward\-backward\-delete\-char |
4567 | Delete the character under the cursor, unless the cursor is at the | |
4568 | end of the line, in which case the character behind the cursor is | |
4569 | deleted. By default, this is not bound to a key. | |
4570 | .TP | |
726f6388 | 4571 | .B quoted\-insert (C\-q, C\-v) |
cce855bc | 4572 | Add the next character typed to the line verbatim. This is |
726f6388 JA |
4573 | how to insert characters like \fBC\-q\fP, for example. |
4574 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 | 4575 | .B tab\-insert (C\-v TAB) |
726f6388 JA |
4576 | Insert a tab character. |
4577 | .TP | |
4578 | .B self\-insert (a,\ b,\ A,\ 1,\ !,\ ...) | |
4579 | Insert the character typed. | |
4580 | .TP | |
4581 | .B transpose\-chars (C\-t) | |
28ef6c31 JA |
4582 | Drag the character before point forward over the character at point, |
4583 | moving point forward as well. | |
4584 | If point is at the end of the line, then this transposes | |
4585 | the two characters before point. | |
bb70624e | 4586 | Negative arguments have no effect. |
726f6388 JA |
4587 | .TP |
4588 | .B transpose\-words (M\-t) | |
bb70624e | 4589 | Drag the word before point past the word after point, |
28ef6c31 | 4590 | moving point over that word as well. |
726f6388 JA |
4591 | .TP |
4592 | .B upcase\-word (M\-u) | |
4593 | Uppercase the current (or following) word. With a negative argument, | |
cce855bc | 4594 | uppercase the previous word, but do not move point. |
726f6388 JA |
4595 | .TP |
4596 | .B downcase\-word (M\-l) | |
4597 | Lowercase the current (or following) word. With a negative argument, | |
cce855bc | 4598 | lowercase the previous word, but do not move point. |
726f6388 JA |
4599 | .TP |
4600 | .B capitalize\-word (M\-c) | |
4601 | Capitalize the current (or following) word. With a negative argument, | |
cce855bc | 4602 | capitalize the previous word, but do not move point. |
726f6388 JA |
4603 | .PD |
4604 | .SS Killing and Yanking | |
4605 | .PP | |
4606 | .PD 0 | |
4607 | .TP | |
4608 | .B kill\-line (C\-k) | |
bb70624e | 4609 | Kill the text from point to the end of the line. |
726f6388 | 4610 | .TP |
ccc6cda3 | 4611 | .B backward\-kill\-line (C\-x Rubout) |
726f6388 JA |
4612 | Kill backward to the beginning of the line. |
4613 | .TP | |
4614 | .B unix\-line\-discard (C\-u) | |
4615 | Kill backward from point to the beginning of the line. | |
cce855bc | 4616 | The killed text is saved on the kill-ring. |
bb70624e | 4617 | .\" There is no real difference between this and backward-kill-line |
726f6388 JA |
4618 | .TP |
4619 | .B kill\-whole\-line | |
bb70624e | 4620 | Kill all characters on the current line, no matter where point is. |
726f6388 JA |
4621 | .TP |
4622 | .B kill\-word (M\-d) | |
bb70624e JA |
4623 | Kill from point to the end of the current word, or if between |
4624 | words, to the end of the next word. | |
4625 | Word boundaries are the same as those used by \fBforward\-word\fP. | |
726f6388 JA |
4626 | .TP |
4627 | .B backward\-kill\-word (M\-Rubout) | |
bb70624e JA |
4628 | Kill the word behind point. |
4629 | Word boundaries are the same as those used by \fBbackward\-word\fP. | |
726f6388 JA |
4630 | .TP |
4631 | .B unix\-word\-rubout (C\-w) | |
bb70624e | 4632 | Kill the word behind point, using white space as a word boundary. |
bb70624e | 4633 | The killed text is saved on the kill-ring. |
ccc6cda3 JA |
4634 | .TP |
4635 | .B delete\-horizontal\-space (M\-\e) | |
4636 | Delete all spaces and tabs around point. | |
4637 | .TP | |
4638 | .B kill\-region | |
bb70624e | 4639 | Kill the text in the current region. |
ccc6cda3 JA |
4640 | .TP |
4641 | .B copy\-region\-as\-kill | |
4642 | Copy the text in the region to the kill buffer. | |
726f6388 | 4643 | .TP |
ccc6cda3 JA |
4644 | .B copy\-backward\-word |
4645 | Copy the word before point to the kill buffer. | |
cce855bc | 4646 | The word boundaries are the same as \fBbackward\-word\fP. |
ccc6cda3 JA |
4647 | .TP |
4648 | .B copy\-forward\-word | |
4649 | Copy the word following point to the kill buffer. | |
cce855bc | 4650 | The word boundaries are the same as \fBforward\-word\fP. |
726f6388 JA |
4651 | .TP |
4652 | .B yank (C\-y) | |
28ef6c31 | 4653 | Yank the top of the kill ring into the buffer at point. |
726f6388 JA |
4654 | .TP |
4655 | .B yank\-pop (M\-y) | |
ccc6cda3 | 4656 | Rotate the kill ring, and yank the new top. Only works following |
726f6388 JA |
4657 | .B yank |
4658 | or | |
4659 | .BR yank\-pop . | |
4660 | .PD | |
4661 | .SS Numeric Arguments | |
4662 | .PP | |
4663 | .PD 0 | |
4664 | .TP | |
4665 | .B digit\-argument (M\-0, M\-1, ..., M\-\-) | |
4666 | Add this digit to the argument already accumulating, or start a new | |
4667 | argument. M\-\- starts a negative argument. | |
4668 | .TP | |
4669 | .B universal\-argument | |
d166f048 JA |
4670 | This is another way to specify an argument. |
4671 | If this command is followed by one or more digits, optionally with a | |
4672 | leading minus sign, those digits define the argument. | |
4673 | If the command is followed by digits, executing | |
4674 | .B universal\-argument | |
4675 | again ends the numeric argument, but is otherwise ignored. | |
4676 | As a special case, if this command is immediately followed by a | |
4677 | character that is neither a digit or minus sign, the argument count | |
4678 | for the next command is multiplied by four. | |
726f6388 | 4679 | The argument count is initially one, so executing this function the |
d166f048 JA |
4680 | first time makes the argument count four, a second time makes the |
4681 | argument count sixteen, and so on. | |
726f6388 JA |
4682 | .PD |
4683 | .SS Completing | |
4684 | .PP | |
4685 | .PD 0 | |
4686 | .TP | |
4687 | .B complete (TAB) | |
4688 | Attempt to perform completion on the text before point. | |
4689 | .B Bash | |
4690 | attempts completion treating the text as a variable (if the | |
4691 | text begins with \fB$\fP), username (if the text begins with | |
4692 | \fB~\fP), hostname (if the text begins with \fB@\fP), or | |
4693 | command (including aliases and functions) in turn. If none | |
4694 | of these produces a match, filename completion is attempted. | |
4695 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 | 4696 | .B possible\-completions (M\-?) |
726f6388 JA |
4697 | List the possible completions of the text before point. |
4698 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 | 4699 | .B insert\-completions (M\-*) |
726f6388 JA |
4700 | Insert all completions of the text before point |
4701 | that would have been generated by | |
ccc6cda3 | 4702 | \fBpossible\-completions\fP. |
726f6388 | 4703 | .TP |
cce855bc JA |
4704 | .B menu\-complete |
4705 | Similar to \fBcomplete\fP, but replaces the word to be completed | |
4706 | with a single match from the list of possible completions. | |
4707 | Repeated execution of \fBmenu\-complete\fP steps through the list | |
4708 | of possible completions, inserting each match in turn. | |
28ef6c31 JA |
4709 | At the end of the list of completions, the bell is rung |
4710 | (subject to the setting of \Bbell\-style\fP) | |
4711 | and the original text is restored. | |
cce855bc JA |
4712 | An argument of \fIn\fP moves \fIn\fP positions forward in the list |
4713 | of matches; a negative argument may be used to move backward | |
4714 | through the list. | |
4715 | This command is intended to be bound to \fBTAB\fP, but is unbound | |
4716 | by default. | |
4717 | .TP | |
b72432fd JA |
4718 | .B delete\-char\-or\-list |
4719 | Deletes the character under the cursor if not at the beginning or | |
bb70624e | 4720 | end of the line (like \fBdelete\-char\fP). |
b72432fd | 4721 | If at the end of the line, behaves identically to |
bb70624e | 4722 | \fBpossible\-completions\fP. |
b72432fd JA |
4723 | This command is unbound by default. |
4724 | .TP | |
726f6388 JA |
4725 | .B complete\-filename (M\-/) |
4726 | Attempt filename completion on the text before point. | |
4727 | .TP | |
4728 | .B possible\-filename\-completions (C\-x /) | |
4729 | List the possible completions of the text before point, | |
4730 | treating it as a filename. | |
4731 | .TP | |
4732 | .B complete\-username (M\-~) | |
4733 | Attempt completion on the text before point, treating | |
4734 | it as a username. | |
4735 | .TP | |
4736 | .B possible\-username\-completions (C\-x ~) | |
4737 | List the possible completions of the text before point, | |
4738 | treating it as a username. | |
4739 | .TP | |
4740 | .B complete\-variable (M\-$) | |
4741 | Attempt completion on the text before point, treating | |
4742 | it as a shell variable. | |
4743 | .TP | |
4744 | .B possible\-variable\-completions (C\-x $) | |
4745 | List the possible completions of the text before point, | |
4746 | treating it as a shell variable. | |
4747 | .TP | |
4748 | .B complete\-hostname (M\-@) | |
4749 | Attempt completion on the text before point, treating | |
4750 | it as a hostname. | |
4751 | .TP | |
4752 | .B possible\-hostname\-completions (C\-x @) | |
4753 | List the possible completions of the text before point, | |
4754 | treating it as a hostname. | |
4755 | .TP | |
4756 | .B complete\-command (M\-!) | |
4757 | Attempt completion on the text before point, treating | |
4758 | it as a command name. Command completion attempts to | |
4759 | match the text against aliases, reserved words, shell | |
cce855bc | 4760 | functions, shell builtins, and finally executable filenames, |
726f6388 JA |
4761 | in that order. |
4762 | .TP | |
4763 | .B possible\-command\-completions (C\-x !) | |
4764 | List the possible completions of the text before point, | |
4765 | treating it as a command name. | |
4766 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 | 4767 | .B dynamic\-complete\-history (M\-TAB) |
726f6388 JA |
4768 | Attempt completion on the text before point, comparing |
4769 | the text against lines from the history list for possible | |
4770 | completion matches. | |
4771 | .TP | |
4772 | .B complete\-into\-braces (M\-{) | |
bb70624e | 4773 | Perform filename completion and insert the list of possible completions |
726f6388 JA |
4774 | enclosed within braces so the list is available to the shell (see |
4775 | .B Brace Expansion | |
4776 | above). | |
4777 | .PD | |
4778 | .SS Keyboard Macros | |
4779 | .PP | |
4780 | .PD 0 | |
4781 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 | 4782 | .B start\-kbd\-macro (C\-x (\^) |
726f6388 JA |
4783 | Begin saving the characters typed into the current keyboard macro. |
4784 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 | 4785 | .B end\-kbd\-macro (C\-x )\^) |
726f6388 | 4786 | Stop saving the characters typed into the current keyboard macro |
ccc6cda3 | 4787 | and store the definition. |
726f6388 | 4788 | .TP |
ccc6cda3 | 4789 | .B call\-last\-kbd\-macro (C\-x e) |
726f6388 JA |
4790 | Re-execute the last keyboard macro defined, by making the characters |
4791 | in the macro appear as if typed at the keyboard. | |
4792 | .PD | |
4793 | .SS Miscellaneous | |
4794 | .PP | |
4795 | .PD 0 | |
4796 | .TP | |
4797 | .B re\-read\-init\-file (C\-x C\-r) | |
ccc6cda3 | 4798 | Read in the contents of the \fIinputrc\fP file, and incorporate |
726f6388 JA |
4799 | any bindings or variable assignments found there. |
4800 | .TP | |
4801 | .B abort (C\-g) | |
4802 | Abort the current editing command and | |
4803 | ring the terminal's bell (subject to the setting of | |
4804 | .BR bell\-style ). | |
4805 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
4806 | .B do\-uppercase\-version (M\-a, M\-b, M\-\fIx\fP, ...) |
4807 | If the metafied character \fIx\fP is lowercase, run the command | |
4808 | that is bound to the corresponding uppercase character. | |
726f6388 JA |
4809 | .TP |
4810 | .B prefix\-meta (ESC) | |
4811 | Metafy the next character typed. | |
4812 | .SM | |
4813 | .B ESC | |
4814 | .B f | |
4815 | is equivalent to | |
4816 | .BR Meta\-f . | |
4817 | .TP | |
4818 | .B undo (C\-_, C\-x C\-u) | |
4819 | Incremental undo, separately remembered for each line. | |
4820 | .TP | |
4821 | .B revert\-line (M\-r) | |
cce855bc | 4822 | Undo all changes made to this line. This is like executing the |
726f6388 JA |
4823 | .B undo |
4824 | command enough times to return the line to its initial state. | |
4825 | .TP | |
b72432fd | 4826 | .B tilde\-expand (M\-&) |
726f6388 JA |
4827 | Perform tilde expansion on the current word. |
4828 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 | 4829 | .B set\-mark (C\-@, M\-<space>) |
28ef6c31 | 4830 | Set the mark to the point. If a |
ccc6cda3 JA |
4831 | numeric argument is supplied, the mark is set to that position. |
4832 | .TP | |
4833 | .B exchange\-point\-and\-mark (C\-x C\-x) | |
4834 | Swap the point with the mark. The current cursor position is set to | |
4835 | the saved position, and the old cursor position is saved as the mark. | |
4836 | .TP | |
4837 | .B character\-search (C\-]) | |
4838 | A character is read and point is moved to the next occurrence of that | |
4839 | character. A negative count searches for previous occurrences. | |
4840 | .TP | |
4841 | .B character\-search\-backward (M\-C\-]) | |
4842 | A character is read and point is moved to the previous occurrence of that | |
4843 | character. A negative count searches for subsequent occurrences. | |
4844 | .TP | |
4845 | .B insert\-comment (M\-#) | |
bb70624e | 4846 | The value of the readline |
ccc6cda3 JA |
4847 | .B comment\-begin |
4848 | variable is inserted at the beginning of the current line, and the line | |
bb70624e JA |
4849 | is accepted as if a newline had been typed. The default value of |
4850 | \fBcomment\-begin\fP causes this command to make the current line | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
4851 | a shell comment. |
4852 | .TP | |
4853 | .B glob\-expand\-word (C\-x *) | |
4854 | The word before point is treated as a pattern for pathname expansion, | |
4855 | and the list of matching file names is inserted, replacing the word. | |
4856 | .TP | |
4857 | .B glob\-list\-expansions (C\-x g) | |
4858 | The list of expansions that would have been generated by | |
4859 | .B glob\-expand\-word | |
4860 | is displayed, and the line is redrawn. | |
4861 | .TP | |
726f6388 JA |
4862 | .B dump\-functions |
4863 | Print all of the functions and their key bindings to the | |
4864 | readline output stream. If a numeric argument is supplied, | |
4865 | the output is formatted in such a way that it can be made part | |
4866 | of an \fIinputrc\fP file. | |
4867 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
4868 | .B dump\-variables |
4869 | Print all of the settable readline variables and their values to the | |
4870 | readline output stream. If a numeric argument is supplied, | |
4871 | the output is formatted in such a way that it can be made part | |
4872 | of an \fIinputrc\fP file. | |
4873 | .TP | |
4874 | .B dump\-macros | |
4875 | Print all of the readline key sequences bound to macros and the | |
4876 | strings they ouput. If a numeric argument is supplied, | |
4877 | the output is formatted in such a way that it can be made part | |
4878 | of an \fIinputrc\fP file. | |
4879 | .TP | |
726f6388 JA |
4880 | .B display\-shell\-version (C\-x C\-v) |
4881 | Display version information about the current instance of | |
4882 | .BR bash . | |
4883 | .PD | |
bb70624e JA |
4884 | .SS Programmable Completion |
4885 | .PP | |
4886 | When word completion is attempted for an argument to a command for | |
4887 | which a completion specification (a \fIcompspec\fP) has been defined | |
4888 | using the \fBcomplete\fP builtin (see | |
4889 | .SM | |
4890 | .B "SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS" | |
4891 | below), the programmable completion facilities are invoked. | |
4892 | .PP | |
4893 | First, the command name is identified. | |
4894 | If a compspec has been defined for that command, the | |
4895 | compspec is used to generate the list of possible completions for the word. | |
4896 | If the command word is a full pathname, a compspec for the full | |
4897 | pathname is searched for first. | |
4898 | If no compspec is found for the full pathname, an attempt is made to | |
4899 | find a compspec for the portion following the final slash. | |
4900 | .PP | |
4901 | Once a compspec has been found, it is used to generate the list of | |
4902 | matching words. | |
4903 | If a compspec is not found, the default \fBbash\fP completion as | |
4904 | described above under \fBCompleting\fP is performed. | |
4905 | .PP | |
4906 | First, the actions specified by the compspec are used. | |
4907 | Only matches which are prefixed by the word being completed are | |
4908 | returned. | |
4909 | When the | |
4910 | .B \-f | |
4911 | or | |
4912 | .B \-d | |
4913 | option is used for filename or directory name completion, the shell | |
4914 | variable | |
4915 | .SM | |
4916 | .B FIGNORE | |
4917 | is used to filter the matches. | |
4918 | .PP | |
4919 | Any completions specified by a filename expansion pattern to the | |
4920 | \fB\-G\fP option are generated next. | |
4921 | The words generated by the pattern need not match the word | |
4922 | being completed. | |
4923 | The | |
4924 | .SM | |
4925 | .B GLOBIGNORE | |
4926 | shell variable is not used to filter the matches, but the | |
4927 | .SM | |
4928 | .B FIGNORE | |
4929 | variable is used. | |
4930 | .PP | |
4931 | Next, the string specified as the argument to the \fB\-W\fP option | |
4932 | is considered. | |
4933 | The string is first split using the characters in the | |
4934 | .SM | |
4935 | .B IFS | |
4936 | special variable as delimiters. | |
4937 | Shell quoting is honored. | |
4938 | Each word is then expanded using | |
4939 | brace expansion, tilde expansion, parameter and variable expansion, | |
4940 | command substitution, arithmetic expansion, and pathname expansion, | |
4941 | as described above under | |
4942 | .SM | |
4943 | .BR EXPANSION . | |
4944 | The results are split using the rules described above under | |
4945 | \fBWord Splitting\fP. | |
4946 | The results of the expansion are prefix-matched against the word being | |
4947 | completed, and the matching words become the possible completions. | |
4948 | .PP | |
4949 | After these matches have been generated, any shell function or command | |
4950 | specified with the \fB\-F\fP and \fB\-C\fP options is invoked. | |
4951 | When the command or function is invoked, the | |
4952 | .SM | |
4953 | .B COMP_LINE | |
4954 | and | |
4955 | .SM | |
4956 | .B COMP_POINT | |
4957 | variables are assigned values as described above under | |
4958 | \fBShell Variables\fP. | |
4959 | If a shell function is being invoked, the | |
4960 | .SM | |
4961 | .B COMP_WORDS | |
4962 | and | |
4963 | .SM | |
4964 | .B COMP_CWORD | |
4965 | variables are also set. | |
4966 | When the function or command is invoked, the first argument is the | |
4967 | name of the command whose arguments are being completed, the | |
4968 | second argument is the word being completed, and the third argument | |
4969 | is the word preceding the word being completed on the current command line. | |
4970 | No filtering of the generated completions against the word being completed | |
4971 | is performed; the function or command has complete freedom in generating | |
4972 | the matches. | |
4973 | .PP | |
4974 | Any function specified with \fB\-F\fP is invoked first. | |
4975 | The function may use any of the shell facilities, including the | |
4976 | \fBcompgen\fP builtin described below, to generate the matches. | |
4977 | It must put the possible completions in the | |
4978 | .SM | |
4979 | .B COMPREPLY | |
4980 | array variable. | |
4981 | .PP | |
4982 | Next, any command specified with the \fB\-C\fP option is invoked | |
4983 | in an environment equivalent to command substitution. | |
4984 | It should print a list of completions, one per line, to the | |
4985 | standard output. | |
4986 | Backslash may be used to escape a newline, if necessary. | |
4987 | .PP | |
4988 | After all of the possible completions are generated, any filter | |
4989 | specified with the \fB\-X\fP option is applied to the list. | |
4990 | The filter is a pattern as used for pathname expansion; a \fB&\fP | |
4991 | in the pattern is replaced with the text of the word being completed. | |
4992 | A literal \fB&\fP may be escaped with a backslash; the backslash | |
4993 | is removed before attempting a match. | |
4994 | Any completion that matches the pattern will be removed from the list. | |
4995 | A leading \fB!\fP negates the pattern; in this case any completion | |
4996 | not matching the pattern will be removed. | |
4997 | .PP | |
4998 | Finally, any prefix and suffix specified with the \fB\-P\fP and \fB\-S\fP | |
4999 | options are added to each member of the completion list, and the result is | |
5000 | returned to the readline completion code as the list of possible | |
5001 | completions. | |
5002 | .PP | |
28ef6c31 JA |
5003 | If the previously-applied actions do not generate any matches, and the |
5004 | \fB\-o dirnames\fP option was supplied to \fBcomplete\fP when the | |
5005 | compspec was defined, directory name completion is attempted. | |
5006 | .PP | |
5007 | By default, if a compspec is found, whatever it generates is returned | |
5008 | to the completion code as the full set of possible completions. | |
bb70624e JA |
5009 | The default \fBbash\fP completions are not attempted, and the readline |
5010 | default of filename completion is disabled. | |
28ef6c31 JA |
5011 | If the \fB-o default\fP option was supplied to \fBcomplete\fP when the |
5012 | compspec was defined, readline's default completion will be performed | |
5013 | if the compspec generates no matches. | |
726f6388 | 5014 | .SH HISTORY |
ccc6cda3 | 5015 | When the |
d166f048 | 5016 | .B \-o history |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5017 | option to the |
5018 | .B set | |
5019 | builtin is enabled, the shell provides access to the | |
5020 | \fIcommand history\fP, | |
bb70624e JA |
5021 | the list of commands previously typed. |
5022 | The value of the \fBHISTSIZE\fP variable is used as the | |
5023 | number of commands to save in a history list. | |
5024 | The text of the last | |
726f6388 JA |
5025 | .SM |
5026 | .B HISTSIZE | |
bb70624e | 5027 | commands (default 500) is saved. The shell |
726f6388 JA |
5028 | stores each command in the history list prior to parameter and |
5029 | variable expansion (see | |
5030 | .SM | |
5031 | .B EXPANSION | |
5032 | above) but after history expansion is performed, subject to the | |
5033 | values of the shell variables | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5034 | .SM |
5035 | .B HISTIGNORE | |
726f6388 JA |
5036 | and |
5037 | .SM | |
5038 | .BR HISTCONTROL . | |
bb70624e | 5039 | .PP |
726f6388 JA |
5040 | On startup, the history is initialized from the file named by |
5041 | the variable | |
5042 | .SM | |
5043 | .B HISTFILE | |
5044 | (default \fI~/.bash_history\fP). | |
bb70624e | 5045 | The file named by the value of |
726f6388 JA |
5046 | .SM |
5047 | .B HISTFILE | |
5048 | is truncated, if necessary, to contain no more than | |
bb70624e | 5049 | the number of lines specified by the value of |
726f6388 | 5050 | .SM |
bb70624e | 5051 | .BR HISTFILESIZE . |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5052 | When an interactive shell exits, the last |
5053 | .SM | |
bb70624e | 5054 | .B $HISTSIZE |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5055 | lines are copied from the history list to |
5056 | .SM | |
bb70624e | 5057 | .BR $HISTFILE . |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5058 | If the |
5059 | .B histappend | |
5060 | shell option is enabled | |
5061 | (see the description of | |
5062 | .B shopt | |
5063 | under | |
5064 | .SM | |
5065 | .B "SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS" | |
5066 | below), the lines are appended to the history file, | |
5067 | otherwise the history file is overwritten. | |
5068 | If | |
5069 | .SM | |
5070 | .B HISTFILE | |
5071 | is unset, or if the history file is unwritable, the history is | |
5072 | not saved. After saving the history, the history file is truncated | |
5073 | to contain no more than | |
5074 | .SM | |
5075 | .B HISTFILESIZE | |
5076 | lines. If | |
5077 | .SM | |
5078 | .B HISTFILESIZE | |
5079 | is not set, no truncation is performed. | |
5080 | .PP | |
726f6388 JA |
5081 | The builtin command |
5082 | .B fc | |
5083 | (see | |
5084 | .SM | |
5085 | .B SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS | |
5086 | below) may be used to list or edit and re-execute a portion of | |
5087 | the history list. | |
5088 | The | |
5089 | .B history | |
bb70624e | 5090 | builtin may be used to display or modify the history list and |
ccc6cda3 | 5091 | manipulate the history file. |
bb70624e | 5092 | When using command-line editing, search commands |
726f6388 | 5093 | are available in each editing mode that provide access to the |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5094 | history list. |
5095 | .PP | |
5096 | The shell allows control over which commands are saved on the history | |
5097 | list. The | |
726f6388 | 5098 | .SM |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5099 | .B HISTCONTROL |
5100 | and | |
726f6388 | 5101 | .SM |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5102 | .B HISTIGNORE |
5103 | variables may be set to cause the shell to save only a subset of the | |
5104 | commands entered. | |
5105 | The | |
5106 | .B cmdhist | |
5107 | shell option, if enabled, causes the shell to attempt to save each | |
5108 | line of a multi-line command in the same history entry, adding | |
5109 | semicolons where necessary to preserve syntactic correctness. | |
5110 | The | |
5111 | .B lithist | |
5112 | shell option causes the shell to save the command with embedded newlines | |
5113 | instead of semicolons. See the description of the | |
5114 | .B shopt | |
5115 | builtin below under | |
5116 | .SM | |
5117 | .B "SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS" | |
5118 | for information on setting and unsetting shell options. | |
726f6388 JA |
5119 | .SH "HISTORY EXPANSION" |
5120 | .PP | |
5121 | The shell supports a history expansion feature that | |
5122 | is similar to the history expansion in | |
5123 | .BR csh. | |
5124 | This section describes what syntax features are available. This | |
5125 | feature is enabled by default for interactive shells, and can be | |
5126 | disabled using the | |
5127 | .B \+H | |
5128 | option to the | |
5129 | .B set | |
5130 | builtin command (see | |
5131 | .SM | |
5132 | .B SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5133 | below). Non-interactive shells do not perform history expansion |
5134 | by default. | |
5135 | .PP | |
5136 | History expansions introduce words from the history list into | |
5137 | the input stream, making it easy to repeat commands, insert the | |
5138 | arguments to a previous command into the current input line, or | |
5139 | fix errors in previous commands quickly. | |
726f6388 JA |
5140 | .PP |
5141 | History expansion is performed immediately after a complete line | |
5142 | is read, before the shell breaks it into words. | |
ccc6cda3 | 5143 | It takes place in two parts. |
cce855bc | 5144 | The first is to determine which line from the history list |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5145 | to use during substitution. |
5146 | The second is to select portions of that line for inclusion into | |
5147 | the current one. | |
cce855bc | 5148 | The line selected from the history is the \fIevent\fP, |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5149 | and the portions of that line that are acted upon are \fIwords\fP. |
5150 | Various \fImodifiers\fP are available to manipulate the selected words. | |
5151 | The line is broken into words in the same fashion as when reading input, | |
5152 | so that several \fImetacharacter\fP-separated words surrounded by | |
cce855bc | 5153 | quotes are considered one word. |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5154 | History expansions are introduced by the appearance of the |
5155 | history expansion character, which is \^\fB!\fP\^ by default. | |
5156 | Only backslash (\^\fB\e\fP\^) and single quotes can quote | |
5157 | the history expansion character. | |
5158 | .PP | |
5159 | Several shell options settable with the | |
5160 | .B shopt | |
5161 | builtin may be used to tailor the behavior of history expansion. | |
5162 | If the | |
5163 | .B histverify | |
5164 | shell option is enabled (see the description of the | |
5165 | .B shopt | |
5166 | builtin), and | |
5167 | .B readline | |
5168 | is being used, history substitutions are not immediately passed to | |
5169 | the shell parser. | |
5170 | Instead, the expanded line is reloaded into the | |
5171 | .B readline | |
5172 | editing buffer for further modification. | |
5173 | If | |
5174 | .B readline | |
5175 | is being used, and the | |
5176 | .B histreedit | |
5177 | shell option is enabled, a failed history substitution will be reloaded | |
5178 | into the | |
5179 | .B readline | |
5180 | editing buffer for correction. | |
5181 | The | |
5182 | .B \-p | |
5183 | option to the | |
5184 | .B history | |
5185 | builtin command may be used to see what a history expansion will | |
5186 | do before using it. | |
5187 | The | |
5188 | .B \-s | |
5189 | option to the | |
5190 | .B history | |
5191 | builtin may be used to add commands to the end of the history list | |
5192 | without actually executing them, so that they are available for | |
5193 | subsequent recall. | |
726f6388 JA |
5194 | .PP |
5195 | The shell allows control of the various characters used by the | |
5196 | history expansion mechanism (see the description of | |
5197 | .B histchars | |
5198 | above under | |
5199 | .BR "Shell Variables" ). | |
5200 | .SS Event Designators | |
5201 | .PP | |
5202 | An event designator is a reference to a command line entry in the | |
5203 | history list. | |
5204 | .PP | |
5205 | .PD 0 | |
5206 | .TP | |
5207 | .B ! | |
5208 | Start a history substitution, except when followed by a | |
5209 | .BR blank , | |
5210 | newline, = or (. | |
5211 | .TP | |
726f6388 JA |
5212 | .B !\fIn\fR |
5213 | Refer to command line | |
5214 | .IR n . | |
5215 | .TP | |
5216 | .B !\-\fIn\fR | |
5217 | Refer to the current command line minus | |
5218 | .IR n . | |
5219 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5220 | .B !! |
5221 | Refer to the previous command. This is a synonym for `!\-1'. | |
5222 | .TP | |
726f6388 JA |
5223 | .B !\fIstring\fR |
5224 | Refer to the most recent command starting with | |
5225 | .IR string . | |
5226 | .TP | |
5227 | .B !?\fIstring\fR\fB[?]\fR | |
5228 | Refer to the most recent command containing | |
5229 | .IR string . | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5230 | The trailing \fB?\fP may be omitted if |
5231 | .I string | |
5232 | is followed immediately by a newline. | |
726f6388 JA |
5233 | .TP |
5234 | .B \d\s+2^\s-2\u\fIstring1\fP\d\s+2^\s-2\u\fIstring2\fP\d\s+2^\s-2\u | |
5235 | Quick substitution. Repeat the last command, replacing | |
5236 | .I string1 | |
5237 | with | |
5238 | .IR string2 . | |
5239 | Equivalent to | |
5240 | ``!!:s/\fIstring1\fP/\fIstring2\fP/'' | |
5241 | (see \fBModifiers\fP below). | |
5242 | .TP | |
5243 | .B !# | |
5244 | The entire command line typed so far. | |
5245 | .PD | |
5246 | .SS Word Designators | |
5247 | .PP | |
ccc6cda3 | 5248 | Word designators are used to select desired words from the event. |
726f6388 JA |
5249 | A |
5250 | .B : | |
ccc6cda3 | 5251 | separates the event specification from the word designator. |
cce855bc | 5252 | It may be omitted if the word designator begins with a |
726f6388 JA |
5253 | .BR ^ , |
5254 | .BR $ , | |
5255 | .BR * , | |
ccc6cda3 | 5256 | .BR \- , |
726f6388 JA |
5257 | or |
5258 | .BR % . | |
5259 | Words are numbered from the beginning of the line, | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5260 | with the first word being denoted by 0 (zero). |
5261 | Words are inserted into the current line separated by single spaces. | |
726f6388 JA |
5262 | .PP |
5263 | .PD 0 | |
5264 | .TP | |
5265 | .B 0 (zero) | |
5266 | The zeroth word. For the shell, this is the command | |
5267 | word. | |
5268 | .TP | |
5269 | .I n | |
5270 | The \fIn\fRth word. | |
5271 | .TP | |
5272 | .B ^ | |
5273 | The first argument. That is, word 1. | |
5274 | .TP | |
5275 | .B $ | |
5276 | The last argument. | |
5277 | .TP | |
5278 | .B % | |
5279 | The word matched by the most recent `?\fIstring\fR?' search. | |
5280 | .TP | |
5281 | .I x\fB\-\fPy | |
5282 | A range of words; `\-\fIy\fR' abbreviates `0\-\fIy\fR'. | |
5283 | .TP | |
5284 | .B * | |
5285 | All of the words but the zeroth. This is a synonym | |
5286 | for `\fI1\-$\fP'. It is not an error to use | |
5287 | .B * | |
5288 | if there is just one | |
5289 | word in the event; the empty string is returned in that case. | |
5290 | .TP | |
5291 | .B x* | |
5292 | Abbreviates \fIx\-$\fP. | |
5293 | .TP | |
5294 | .B x\- | |
5295 | Abbreviates \fIx\-$\fP like \fBx*\fP, but omits the last word. | |
5296 | .PD | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5297 | .PP |
5298 | If a word designator is supplied without an event specification, the | |
5299 | previous command is used as the event. | |
726f6388 JA |
5300 | .SS Modifiers |
5301 | .PP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5302 | After the optional word designator, there may appear a sequence of |
5303 | one or more of the following modifiers, each preceded by a `:'. | |
726f6388 JA |
5304 | .PP |
5305 | .PD 0 | |
5306 | .PP | |
5307 | .TP | |
5308 | .B h | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5309 | Remove a trailing file name component, leaving only the head. |
5310 | .TP | |
5311 | .B t | |
5312 | Remove all leading file name components, leaving the tail. | |
726f6388 JA |
5313 | .TP |
5314 | .B r | |
5315 | Remove a trailing suffix of the form \fI.xxx\fP, leaving the | |
5316 | basename. | |
5317 | .TP | |
5318 | .B e | |
5319 | Remove all but the trailing suffix. | |
5320 | .TP | |
726f6388 JA |
5321 | .B p |
5322 | Print the new command but do not execute it. | |
5323 | .TP | |
5324 | .B q | |
5325 | Quote the substituted words, escaping further substitutions. | |
5326 | .TP | |
cce855bc JA |
5327 | .B x |
5328 | Quote the substituted words as with | |
5329 | .BR q , | |
5330 | but break into words at | |
5331 | .B blanks | |
5332 | and newlines. | |
726f6388 | 5333 | .TP |
cce855bc JA |
5334 | .B s/\fIold\fP/\fInew\fP/ |
5335 | Substitute | |
5336 | .I new | |
5337 | for the first occurrence of | |
5338 | .I old | |
5339 | in the event line. Any delimiter can be used in place of /. The | |
5340 | final delimiter is optional if it is the last character of the | |
5341 | event line. The delimiter may be quoted in | |
5342 | .I old | |
5343 | and | |
5344 | .I new | |
5345 | with a single backslash. If & appears in | |
5346 | .IR new , | |
5347 | it is replaced by | |
5348 | .IR old . | |
5349 | A single backslash will quote the &. If | |
5350 | .I old | |
5351 | is null, it is set to the last | |
5352 | .I old | |
5353 | substituted, or, if no previous history substitutions took place, | |
5354 | the last | |
5355 | .I string | |
5356 | in a | |
5357 | .B !?\fIstring\fR\fB[?]\fR | |
5358 | search. | |
ccc6cda3 | 5359 | .TP |
cce855bc JA |
5360 | .B & |
5361 | Repeat the previous substitution. | |
5362 | .TP | |
5363 | .B g | |
5364 | Cause changes to be applied over the entire event line. This is | |
5365 | used in conjunction with `\fB:s\fP' (e.g., `\fB:gs/\fIold\fP/\fInew\fP/\fR') | |
5366 | or `\fB:&\fP'. If used with | |
5367 | `\fB:s\fP', any delimiter can be used | |
5368 | in place of /, and the final delimiter is optional | |
5369 | if it is the last character of the event line. | |
726f6388 | 5370 | .PD |
726f6388 JA |
5371 | .SH "SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS" |
5372 | .\" start of bash_builtins | |
5373 | .zZ | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5374 | .PP |
5375 | Unless otherwise noted, each builtin command documented in this | |
5376 | section as accepting options preceded by | |
5377 | .B \- | |
5378 | accepts | |
5379 | .B \-\- | |
5380 | to signify the end of the options. | |
5381 | .sp .5 | |
726f6388 JA |
5382 | .PD 0 |
5383 | .TP | |
5384 | \fB:\fP [\fIarguments\fP] | |
5385 | .PD | |
5386 | No effect; the command does nothing beyond expanding | |
5387 | .I arguments | |
5388 | and performing any specified | |
5389 | redirections. A zero exit code is returned. | |
5390 | .TP | |
5391 | .PD 0 | |
5392 | \fB .\| \fP \fIfilename\fP [\fIarguments\fP] | |
5393 | .TP | |
5394 | \fBsource\fP \fIfilename\fP [\fIarguments\fP] | |
5395 | .PD | |
5396 | Read and execute commands from | |
5397 | .I filename | |
5398 | in the current | |
5399 | shell environment and return the exit status of the last command | |
5400 | executed from | |
5401 | .IR filename . | |
5402 | If | |
5403 | .I filename | |
ccc6cda3 | 5404 | does not contain a slash, file names in |
726f6388 JA |
5405 | .SM |
5406 | .B PATH | |
5407 | are used to find the directory containing | |
5408 | .IR filename . | |
5409 | The file searched for in | |
5410 | .SM | |
5411 | .B PATH | |
28ef6c31 JA |
5412 | need not be executable. |
5413 | When \fBbash\fP is not in \fIposix mode\fP, the current directory is | |
726f6388 JA |
5414 | searched if no file is found in |
5415 | .SM | |
5416 | .BR PATH . | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5417 | If the |
5418 | .B sourcepath | |
5419 | option to the | |
5420 | .B shopt | |
5421 | builtin command is turned off, the | |
5422 | .SM | |
5423 | .B PATH | |
5424 | is not searched. | |
726f6388 | 5425 | If any \fIarguments\fP are supplied, they become the positional |
ccc6cda3 | 5426 | parameters when \fIfilename\fP is executed. Otherwise the positional |
726f6388 JA |
5427 | parameters are unchanged. |
5428 | The return status is the status of the last command exited within | |
5429 | the script (0 if no commands are executed), and false if | |
5430 | .I filename | |
cce855bc | 5431 | is not found or cannot be read. |
726f6388 | 5432 | .TP |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5433 | \fBalias\fP [\fB\-p\fP] [\fIname\fP[=\fIvalue\fP] ...] |
5434 | \fBAlias\fP with no arguments or with the | |
5435 | .B \-p | |
5436 | option prints the list of aliases in the form | |
5437 | \fBalias\fP \fIname\fP=\fIvalue\fP on standard output. | |
5438 | When arguments are supplied, an alias is defined for | |
5439 | each \fIname\fP whose \fIvalue\fP is given. | |
5440 | A trailing space in \fIvalue\fP causes the next word to be | |
5441 | checked for alias substitution when the alias is expanded. | |
5442 | For each \fIname\fP in the argument list for which no \fIvalue\fP | |
5443 | is supplied, the name and value of the alias is printed. | |
5444 | \fBAlias\fP returns true unless a \fIname\fP is given for which | |
5445 | no alias has been defined. | |
726f6388 JA |
5446 | .TP |
5447 | \fBbg\fP [\fIjobspec\fP] | |
cce855bc JA |
5448 | Resume the suspended job \fIjobspec\fP in the background, as if it |
5449 | had been started with | |
726f6388 JA |
5450 | .BR & . |
5451 | If \fIjobspec\fP is not present, the shell's notion of the | |
5452 | \fIcurrent job\fP is used. | |
5453 | .B bg | |
5454 | .I jobspec | |
5455 | returns 0 unless run when job control is disabled or, when run with | |
5456 | job control enabled, if \fIjobspec\fP was not found or started without | |
5457 | job control. | |
5458 | .TP | |
5459 | .PD 0 | |
cce855bc JA |
5460 | \fBbind\fP [\fB\-m\fP \fIkeymap\fP] [\fB\-lpsvPSV\fP] |
5461 | .TP | |
5462 | \fBbind\fP [\fB\-m\fP \fIkeymap\fP] [\fB\-q\fP \fIfunction\fP] [\fB\-u\fP \fIfunction\fP] [\fB\-r\fP \fIkeyseq\fP] | |
726f6388 | 5463 | .TP |
ccc6cda3 | 5464 | \fBbind\fP [\fB\-m\fP \fIkeymap\fP] \fB\-f\fP \fIfilename\fP |
726f6388 | 5465 | .TP |
bb70624e JA |
5466 | \fBbind\fP [\fB\-m\fP \fIkeymap\fP] \fB\-x\fP \fIkeyseq\fP:\fIshell\-command\fP |
5467 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 | 5468 | \fBbind\fP [\fB\-m\fP \fIkeymap\fP] \fIkeyseq\fP:\fIfunction\-name\fP |
726f6388 JA |
5469 | .PD |
5470 | Display current | |
5471 | .B readline | |
5472 | key and function bindings, or bind a key sequence to a | |
5473 | .B readline | |
5474 | function or macro. The binding syntax accepted is identical to that of | |
5475 | .IR .inputrc , | |
5476 | but each binding must be passed as a separate argument; | |
ccc6cda3 | 5477 | e.g., '"\eC\-x\eC\-r": re\-read\-init\-file'. Options, if supplied, have the |
726f6388 JA |
5478 | following meanings: |
5479 | .RS | |
5480 | .PD 0 | |
5481 | .TP | |
5482 | .B \-m \fIkeymap\fP | |
5483 | Use | |
5484 | .I keymap | |
5485 | as the keymap to be affected by the subsequent bindings. | |
5486 | Acceptable | |
5487 | .I keymap | |
5488 | names are | |
ccc6cda3 | 5489 | \fIemacs, emacs\-standard, emacs\-meta, emacs\-ctlx, vi, |
28ef6c31 | 5490 | vi\-move, vi\-command\fP, and |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5491 | .IR vi\-insert . |
5492 | \fIvi\fP is equivalent to \fIvi\-command\fP; \fIemacs\fP is | |
5493 | equivalent to \fIemacs\-standard\fP. | |
726f6388 JA |
5494 | .TP |
5495 | .B \-l | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5496 | List the names of all \fBreadline\fP functions. |
5497 | .TP | |
5498 | .B \-p | |
5499 | Display \fBreadline\fP function names and bindings in such a way | |
5500 | that they can be re-read. | |
5501 | .TP | |
5502 | .B \-P | |
5503 | List current \fBreadline\fP function names and bindings. | |
726f6388 JA |
5504 | .TP |
5505 | .B \-v | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5506 | Display \fBreadline\fP variable names and values in such a way that they |
5507 | can be re-read. | |
726f6388 | 5508 | .TP |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5509 | .B \-V |
5510 | List current \fBreadline\fP variable names and values. | |
5511 | .TP | |
5512 | .B \-s | |
5513 | Display \fBreadline\fP key sequences bound to macros and the strings | |
5514 | they output in such a way that they can be re-read. | |
5515 | .TP | |
5516 | .B \-S | |
5517 | Display \fBreadline\fP key sequences bound to macros and the strings | |
5518 | they output. | |
726f6388 JA |
5519 | .TP |
5520 | .B \-f \fIfilename\fP | |
ccc6cda3 | 5521 | Read key bindings from \fIfilename\fP. |
726f6388 JA |
5522 | .TP |
5523 | .B \-q \fIfunction\fP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5524 | Query about which keys invoke the named \fIfunction\fP. |
5525 | .TP | |
cce855bc JA |
5526 | .B \-u \fIfunction\fP |
5527 | Unbind all keys bound to the named \fIfunction\fP. | |
5528 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5529 | .B \-r \fIkeyseq\fP |
5530 | Remove any current binding for \fIkeyseq\fP. | |
bb70624e JA |
5531 | .TP |
5532 | .B \-x \fIkeyseq\fP:\fIshell\-command\fP | |
5533 | Cause \fIshell\-command\fP to be executed whenever \fIkeyseq\fP is | |
5534 | entered. | |
726f6388 JA |
5535 | .PD |
5536 | .PP | |
5537 | The return value is 0 unless an unrecognized option is given or an | |
5538 | error occurred. | |
5539 | .RE | |
5540 | .TP | |
5541 | \fBbreak\fP [\fIn\fP] | |
5542 | Exit from within a | |
5543 | .BR for , | |
5544 | .BR while , | |
ccc6cda3 | 5545 | .BR until , |
726f6388 | 5546 | or |
ccc6cda3 | 5547 | .B select |
726f6388 JA |
5548 | loop. If \fIn\fP is specified, break \fIn\fP levels. |
5549 | .I n | |
5550 | must be \(>= 1. If | |
5551 | .I n | |
5552 | is greater than the number of enclosing loops, all enclosing loops | |
5553 | are exited. The return value is 0 unless the shell is not executing | |
5554 | a loop when | |
5555 | .B break | |
5556 | is executed. | |
5557 | .TP | |
5558 | \fBbuiltin\fP \fIshell\-builtin\fP [\fIarguments\fP] | |
5559 | Execute the specified shell builtin, passing it | |
5560 | .IR arguments , | |
5561 | and return its exit status. | |
cce855bc | 5562 | This is useful when defining a |
726f6388 | 5563 | function whose name is the same as a shell builtin, |
cce855bc JA |
5564 | retaining the functionality of the builtin within the function. |
5565 | The \fBcd\fP builtin is commonly redefined this way. | |
5566 | The return status is false if | |
726f6388 JA |
5567 | .I shell\-builtin |
5568 | is not a shell builtin command. | |
5569 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 | 5570 | \fBcd\fP [\fB\-LP\fP] [\fIdir\fP] |
726f6388 JA |
5571 | Change the current directory to \fIdir\fP. The variable |
5572 | .SM | |
5573 | .B HOME | |
5574 | is the | |
5575 | default | |
5576 | .IR dir . | |
5577 | The variable | |
5578 | .SM | |
5579 | .B CDPATH | |
ccc6cda3 | 5580 | defines the search path for the directory containing |
726f6388 | 5581 | .IR dir . |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5582 | Alternative directory names in |
5583 | .SM | |
5584 | .B CDPATH | |
5585 | are separated by a colon (:). A null directory name in | |
726f6388 JA |
5586 | .SM |
5587 | .B CDPATH | |
ccc6cda3 | 5588 | is the same as the current directory, i.e., ``\fB.\fP''. If |
726f6388 JA |
5589 | .I dir |
5590 | begins with a slash (/), | |
5591 | then | |
5592 | .SM | |
5593 | .B CDPATH | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5594 | is not used. The |
5595 | .B \-P | |
5596 | option says to use the physical directory structure instead of | |
5597 | following symbolic links (see also the | |
5598 | .B \-P | |
5599 | option to the | |
5600 | .B set | |
5601 | builtin command); the | |
5602 | .B \-L | |
5603 | option forces symbolic links to be followed. An argument of | |
726f6388 JA |
5604 | .B \- |
5605 | is equivalent to | |
5606 | .SM | |
5607 | .BR $OLDPWD . | |
5608 | The return value is true if the directory was successfully changed; | |
5609 | false otherwise. | |
5610 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 | 5611 | \fBcommand\fP [\fB\-pVv\fP] \fIcommand\fP [\fIarg\fP ...] |
726f6388 JA |
5612 | Run |
5613 | .I command | |
5614 | with | |
5615 | .I args | |
5616 | suppressing the normal shell function lookup. Only builtin | |
5617 | commands or commands found in the | |
5618 | .SM | |
5619 | .B PATH | |
5620 | are executed. If the | |
5621 | .B \-p | |
5622 | option is given, the search for | |
5623 | .I command | |
5624 | is performed using a default value for | |
5625 | .B PATH | |
5626 | that is guaranteed to find all of the standard utilities. | |
5627 | If either the | |
5628 | .B \-V | |
5629 | or | |
5630 | .B \-v | |
5631 | option is supplied, a description of | |
5632 | .I command | |
5633 | is printed. The | |
5634 | .B \-v | |
ccc6cda3 | 5635 | option causes a single word indicating the command or file name |
726f6388 JA |
5636 | used to invoke |
5637 | .I command | |
cce855bc | 5638 | to be displayed; the |
726f6388 JA |
5639 | .B \-V |
5640 | option produces a more verbose description. | |
726f6388 JA |
5641 | If the |
5642 | .B \-V | |
5643 | or | |
5644 | .B \-v | |
5645 | option is supplied, the exit status is 0 if | |
5646 | .I command | |
5647 | was found, and 1 if not. If neither option is supplied and | |
5648 | an error occurred or | |
5649 | .I command | |
5650 | cannot be found, the exit status is 127. Otherwise, the exit status of the | |
5651 | .B command | |
5652 | builtin is the exit status of | |
5653 | .IR command . | |
5654 | .TP | |
bb70624e JA |
5655 | \fBcompgen\fP [\fIoption\fP] [\fIword\fP] |
5656 | Generate possible completion matches for \fIword\fP according to | |
5657 | the \fIoption\fPs, which may be any option accepted by the | |
5658 | .B complete | |
5659 | builtin with the exception of \fB\-p\fP and \fB\-r\fP, and write | |
5660 | the matches to the standard output. | |
5661 | When using the \fB\-F\fP or \fB\-C\fP options, the various shell variables | |
5662 | set by the programmable completion facilities, while available, will not | |
5663 | have useful values. | |
5664 | .sp 1 | |
5665 | The matches will be generated in the same way as if the programmable | |
5666 | completion code had generated them directly from a completion specification | |
5667 | with the same flags. | |
5668 | If \fIword\fP is specified, only those completions matching \fIword\fP | |
5669 | will be displayed. | |
5670 | .sp 1 | |
5671 | The return value is true unless an invalid option is supplied, or no | |
5672 | matches were generated. | |
5673 | .TP | |
5674 | .PD 0 | |
28ef6c31 | 5675 | \fBcomplete\fP [\fB\-abcdefjkvu\fP] [\fB\-o\fP \fIcomp-option\fP] [\fB\-A\fP \fIaction\fP] [\fB\-G\fP \fIglobpat\fP] [\fB\-W\fP \fIwordlist\fP] [\fB\-P\fP \fIprefix\fP] [\fB\-S\fP \fIsuffix\fP] |
bb70624e JA |
5676 | .br |
5677 | [\fB\-X\fP \fIfilterpat\fP] [\fB\-F\fP \fIfunction\fP] [\fB\-C\fP \fIcommand\fP] \fIname\fP [\fIname ...\fP] | |
5678 | .TP | |
5679 | \fBcomplete\fP \fB\-pr\fP [\fIname\fP ...] | |
5680 | .PD | |
5681 | Specify how arguments to each \fIname\fP should be completed. | |
5682 | If the \fB\-p\fP option is supplied, or if no options are supplied, | |
5683 | existing completion specifications are printed in a way that allows | |
5684 | them to be reused as input. | |
5685 | The \fB\-r\fP option removes a completion specification for | |
5686 | each \fIname\fP, or, if no \fIname\fPs are supplied, all | |
5687 | completion specifications. | |
5688 | .sp 1 | |
5689 | The process of applying these completion specifications when word completion | |
5690 | is attempted is described above under \fBProgrammable Completion\fP. | |
5691 | .sp 1 | |
5692 | Other options, if specified, have the following meanings. | |
5693 | The arguments to the \fB\-G\fP, \fB\-W\fP, and \fB\-X\fP options | |
5694 | (and, if necessary, the \fB\-P\fP and \fB\-S\fP options) | |
5695 | should be quoted to protect them from expansion before the | |
5696 | .B complete | |
5697 | builtin is invoked. | |
5698 | .RS | |
5699 | .PD 0 | |
5700 | .TP 8 | |
28ef6c31 JA |
5701 | \fB\-o\fP \fIcomp-option\fP |
5702 | The \fIcomp-option\fP controls several aspects of the compspec's behavior | |
5703 | beyond the simple generation of completions. | |
5704 | \fIcomp-option\fP may be one of: | |
5705 | .RS | |
5706 | .TP 8 | |
5707 | .B default | |
5708 | Use readline's default completion if the compspec generates no matches. | |
5709 | .TP 8 | |
5710 | .B dirnames | |
5711 | Perform directory name completion if the compspec generates no matches. | |
5712 | .TP 8 | |
5713 | .B filenames | |
5714 | Tell readline that the compspec generates filenames, so it can perform any | |
5715 | filename\-specific processing (like adding a slash to directory names or | |
5716 | suppressing trailing spaces). Intended to be used with shell functions. | |
5717 | .RE | |
5718 | .TP 8 | |
bb70624e JA |
5719 | \fB\-A\fP \fIaction\fP |
5720 | The \fIaction\fP may be one of the following to generate a list of possible | |
5721 | completions: | |
5722 | .RS | |
5723 | .TP 8 | |
5724 | .B alias | |
5725 | Alias names. May also be specified as \fB\-a\fP. | |
5726 | .TP 8 | |
5727 | .B arrayvar | |
5728 | Array variable names. | |
5729 | .TP 8 | |
5730 | .B binding | |
5731 | \fBReadline\fP key binding names. | |
5732 | .TP 8 | |
5733 | .B builtin | |
5734 | Names of shell builtin commands. May also be specified as \fB\-b\fP. | |
5735 | .TP 8 | |
5736 | .B command | |
5737 | Command names. May also be specified as \fB\-c\fP. | |
5738 | .TP 8 | |
5739 | .B directory | |
5740 | Directory names. May also be specified as \fB\-d\fP. | |
5741 | .TP 8 | |
5742 | .B disabled | |
5743 | Names of disabled shell builtins. | |
5744 | .TP 8 | |
5745 | .B enabled | |
5746 | Names of enabled shell builtins. | |
5747 | .TP 8 | |
5748 | .B export | |
5749 | Names of exported shell variables. May also be specified as \fB\-e\fP. | |
5750 | .TP 8 | |
5751 | .B file | |
5752 | File names. May also be specified as \fB\-f\fP. | |
5753 | .TP 8 | |
5754 | .B function | |
5755 | Names of shell functions. | |
5756 | .TP 8 | |
5757 | .B helptopic | |
5758 | Help topics as accepted by the \fBhelp\fP builtin. | |
5759 | .TP 8 | |
5760 | .B hostname | |
5761 | Hostnames, as taken from the file specified by the | |
5762 | .SM | |
5763 | .B HOSTFILE | |
5764 | shell variable. | |
5765 | .TP 8 | |
5766 | .B job | |
5767 | Job names, if job control is active. May also be specified as \fB\-j\fP. | |
5768 | .TP 8 | |
5769 | .B keyword | |
5770 | Shell reserved words. May also be specified as \fB\-k\fP. | |
5771 | .TP 8 | |
5772 | .B running | |
5773 | Names of running jobs, if job control is active. | |
5774 | .TP 8 | |
5775 | .B setopt | |
5776 | Valid arguments for the \fB\-o\fP option to the \fBset\fP builtin. | |
5777 | .TP 8 | |
5778 | .B shopt | |
5779 | Shell option names as accepted by the \fBshopt\fP builtin. | |
5780 | .TP 8 | |
5781 | .B signal | |
5782 | Signal names. | |
5783 | .TP 8 | |
5784 | .B stopped | |
5785 | Names of stopped jobs, if job control is active. | |
5786 | .TP 8 | |
5787 | .B user | |
5788 | User names. May also be specified as \fB\-u\fP. | |
5789 | .TP 8 | |
5790 | .B variable | |
5791 | Names of all shell variables. May also be specified as \fB\-v\fP. | |
5792 | .RE | |
5793 | .TP 8 | |
5794 | \fB\-G\fP \fIglobpat\fP | |
5795 | The filename expansion pattern \fIglobpat\fP is expanded to generate | |
5796 | the possible completions. | |
5797 | .TP 8 | |
5798 | \fB\-W\fP \fIwordlist\fP | |
5799 | The \fIwordlist\fP is split using the characters in the | |
5800 | .SM | |
5801 | .B IFS | |
5802 | special variable as delimiters, and each resultant word is expanded. | |
5803 | The possible completions are the members of the resultant list which | |
5804 | match the word being completed. | |
5805 | .TP 8 | |
5806 | \fB\-C\fP \fIcommand\fP | |
5807 | \fIcommand\fP is executed in a subshell environment, and its output is | |
5808 | used as the possible completions. | |
5809 | .TP 8 | |
5810 | \fB\-F\fP \fIfunction\fP | |
5811 | The shell function \fIfunction\fP is executed in the current shell | |
5812 | environment. | |
5813 | When it finishes, the possible completions are retrieved from the value | |
5814 | of the | |
5815 | .SM | |
5816 | .B COMPREPLY | |
5817 | array variable. | |
5818 | .TP 8 | |
5819 | \fB\-X\fP \fIfilterpat\fP | |
5820 | \fIfilterpat\fP is a pattern as used for filename expansion. | |
5821 | It is applied to the list of possible completions generated by the | |
5822 | preceding options and arguments, and each completion matching | |
5823 | \fIfilterpat\fP is removed from the list. | |
5824 | A leading \fB!\fP in \fIfilterpat\fP negates the pattern; in this | |
5825 | case, any completion not matching \fIfilterpat\fP is removed. | |
5826 | .TP 8 | |
5827 | \fB\-P\fP \fIprefix\fP | |
5828 | \fIprefix\fP is added at the beginning of each possible completion | |
5829 | after all other options have been applied. | |
5830 | .TP 8 | |
5831 | \fB\-S\fP \fIsuffix\fP | |
5832 | \fIsuffix\fP is appended to each possible completion | |
5833 | after all other options have been applied. | |
5834 | .PD | |
5835 | .PP | |
5836 | The return value is true unless an invalid option is supplied, an option | |
5837 | other than \fB\-p\fP or \fB\-r\fP is supplied without a \fIname\fP | |
5838 | argument, an attempt is made to remove a completion specification for | |
5839 | a \fIname\fP for which no specification exists, or | |
5840 | an error occurs adding a completion specification. | |
5841 | .RE | |
5842 | .TP | |
726f6388 JA |
5843 | \fBcontinue\fP [\fIn\fP] |
5844 | Resume the next iteration of the enclosing | |
5845 | .BR for , | |
5846 | .BR while , | |
ccc6cda3 | 5847 | .BR until , |
726f6388 | 5848 | or |
ccc6cda3 | 5849 | .B select |
726f6388 JA |
5850 | loop. |
5851 | If | |
5852 | .I n | |
5853 | is specified, resume at the \fIn\fPth enclosing loop. | |
5854 | .I n | |
5855 | must be \(>= 1. If | |
5856 | .I n | |
5857 | is greater than the number of enclosing loops, the last enclosing loop | |
ccc6cda3 | 5858 | (the ``top-level'' loop) is resumed. The return value is 0 unless the |
726f6388 JA |
5859 | shell is not executing a loop when |
5860 | .B continue | |
5861 | is executed. | |
5862 | .TP | |
5863 | .PD 0 | |
ccc6cda3 | 5864 | \fBdeclare\fP [\fB\-afFirx\fP] [\fB\-p\fP] [\fIname\fP[=\fIvalue\fP]] |
726f6388 | 5865 | .TP |
ccc6cda3 | 5866 | \fBtypeset\fP [\fB\-afFirx\fP] [\fB\-p\fP] [\fIname\fP[=\fIvalue\fP]] |
726f6388 | 5867 | .PD |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5868 | Declare variables and/or give them attributes. |
5869 | If no \fIname\fPs are given then display the values of variables. | |
5870 | The | |
5871 | .B \-p | |
5872 | option will display the attributes and values of each | |
5873 | .IR name . | |
5874 | When | |
5875 | .B \-p | |
5876 | is used, additional options are ignored. | |
5877 | The | |
5878 | .B \-F | |
5879 | option inhibits the display of function definitions; only the | |
5880 | function name and attributes are printed. | |
5881 | The | |
5882 | .B \-F | |
5883 | option implies | |
5884 | .BR \-f . | |
5885 | The following options can | |
5886 | be used to restrict output to variables with the specified attribute or | |
5887 | to give variables attributes: | |
726f6388 JA |
5888 | .RS |
5889 | .PD 0 | |
5890 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5891 | .B \-a |
5892 | Each \fIname\fP is an array variable (see | |
5893 | .B Arrays | |
5894 | above). | |
5895 | .TP | |
726f6388 | 5896 | .B \-f |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5897 | Use function names only. |
5898 | .TP | |
5899 | .B \-i | |
5900 | The variable is treated as an integer; arithmetic evaluation (see | |
5901 | .SM | |
5902 | .B "ARITHMETIC EVALUATION" ") " | |
5903 | is performed when the variable is assigned a value. | |
726f6388 JA |
5904 | .TP |
5905 | .B \-r | |
5906 | Make \fIname\fPs readonly. These names cannot then be assigned values | |
cce855bc | 5907 | by subsequent assignment statements or unset. |
726f6388 JA |
5908 | .TP |
5909 | .B \-x | |
5910 | Mark \fIname\fPs for export to subsequent commands via the environment. | |
726f6388 JA |
5911 | .PD |
5912 | .PP | |
5913 | Using `+' instead of `\-' | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5914 | turns off the attribute instead, with the exception that \fB+a\fP |
5915 | may not be used to destroy an array variable. When used in a function, | |
5916 | makes each | |
5917 | \fIname\fP local, as with the | |
726f6388 | 5918 | .B local |
cce855bc | 5919 | command. The return value is 0 unless an invalid option is encountered, |
bb70624e JA |
5920 | an attempt is made to define a function using |
5921 | .if n ``\-f foo=bar'', | |
5922 | .if t \f(CW\-f foo=bar\fP, | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5923 | an attempt is made to assign a value to a readonly variable, |
5924 | an attempt is made to assign a value to an array variable without | |
5925 | using the compound assignment syntax (see | |
5926 | .B Arrays | |
cce855bc | 5927 | above), one of the \fInames\fP is not a valid shell variable name, |
726f6388 | 5928 | an attempt is made to turn off readonly status for a readonly variable, |
ccc6cda3 | 5929 | an attempt is made to turn off array status for an array variable, |
bb70624e | 5930 | or an attempt is made to display a non-existent function with \fB\-f\fP. |
726f6388 JA |
5931 | .RE |
5932 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5933 | .B dirs [\fB\-clpv\fP] [+\fIn\fP] [\-\fIn\fP] |
5934 | Without options, displays the list of currently remembered directories. | |
5935 | The default display is on a single line with directory names separated | |
5936 | by spaces. | |
5937 | Directories are added to the list with the | |
726f6388 JA |
5938 | .B pushd |
5939 | command; the | |
5940 | .B popd | |
ccc6cda3 | 5941 | command removes entries from the list. |
726f6388 JA |
5942 | .RS |
5943 | .PD 0 | |
5944 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5945 | \fB+\fP\fIn\fP |
5946 | Displays the \fIn\fPth entry counting from the left of the list | |
726f6388 JA |
5947 | shown by |
5948 | .B dirs | |
5949 | when invoked without options, starting with zero. | |
5950 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5951 | \fB\-\fP\fIn\fP |
5952 | Displays the \fIn\fPth entry counting from the right of the list | |
726f6388 JA |
5953 | shown by |
5954 | .B dirs | |
5955 | when invoked without options, starting with zero. | |
5956 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5957 | .B \-c |
5958 | Clears the directory stack by deleting all of the entries. | |
5959 | .TP | |
726f6388 | 5960 | .B \-l |
ccc6cda3 | 5961 | Produces a longer listing; the default listing format uses a |
726f6388 | 5962 | tilde to denote the home directory. |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5963 | .TP |
5964 | .B \-p | |
5965 | Print the directory stack with one entry per line. | |
5966 | .TP | |
5967 | .B \-v | |
5968 | Print the directory stack with one entry per line, | |
5969 | prefixing each entry with its index in the stack. | |
726f6388 JA |
5970 | .PD |
5971 | .PP | |
5972 | The return value is 0 unless an | |
cce855bc | 5973 | invalid option is supplied or \fIn\fP indexes beyond the end |
726f6388 JA |
5974 | of the directory stack. |
5975 | .RE | |
5976 | .TP | |
cce855bc | 5977 | \fBdisown\fP [\fB\-ar\fP] [\fB\-h\fP] [\fIjobspec\fP ...] |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5978 | Without options, each |
5979 | .I jobspec | |
5980 | is removed from the table of active jobs. | |
cce855bc JA |
5981 | If the \fB\-h\fP option is given, each |
5982 | .I jobspec | |
5983 | is not removed from the table, but is marked so that | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
5984 | .SM |
5985 | .B SIGHUP | |
5986 | is not sent to the job if the shell receives a | |
5987 | .SM | |
5988 | .BR SIGHUP . | |
5989 | If no | |
5990 | .I jobspec | |
cce855bc JA |
5991 | is present, and neither the |
5992 | .B \-a | |
5993 | nor the | |
5994 | .B \-r | |
5995 | option is supplied, the \fIcurrent job\fP is used. | |
5996 | If no | |
5997 | .I jobspec | |
5998 | is supplied, the | |
5999 | .B \-a | |
6000 | option means to remove or mark all jobs; the | |
6001 | .B \-r | |
6002 | option without a | |
6003 | .I jobspec | |
6004 | argument restricts operation to running jobs. | |
6005 | The return value is 0 unless a | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6006 | .I jobspec |
6007 | does not specify a valid job. | |
6008 | .TP | |
726f6388 | 6009 | \fBecho\fP [\fB\-neE\fP] [\fIarg\fP ...] |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6010 | Output the \fIarg\fPs, separated by spaces, followed by a newline. |
6011 | The return status is always 0. | |
6012 | If \fB\-n\fP is specified, the trailing newline is | |
726f6388 JA |
6013 | suppressed. If the \fB\-e\fP option is given, interpretation of |
6014 | the following backslash-escaped characters is enabled. The | |
6015 | .B \-E | |
6016 | option disables the interpretation of these escape characters, | |
6017 | even on systems where they are interpreted by default. | |
28ef6c31 | 6018 | The \fBxpg_echo\fP shell option may be used to |
bb70624e JA |
6019 | dynamically determine whether or not \fBecho\fP expands these |
6020 | escape characters by default. | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6021 | .B echo |
6022 | does not interpret | |
6023 | .B \-\- | |
6024 | to mean the end of options. | |
6025 | .B echo | |
6026 | interprets the following escape sequences: | |
726f6388 JA |
6027 | .RS |
6028 | .PD 0 | |
6029 | .TP | |
6030 | .B \ea | |
6031 | alert (bell) | |
6032 | .TP | |
6033 | .B \eb | |
6034 | backspace | |
6035 | .TP | |
6036 | .B \ec | |
6037 | suppress trailing newline | |
6038 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6039 | .B \ee |
6040 | an escape character | |
6041 | .TP | |
726f6388 JA |
6042 | .B \ef |
6043 | form feed | |
6044 | .TP | |
6045 | .B \en | |
6046 | new line | |
6047 | .TP | |
6048 | .B \er | |
6049 | carriage return | |
6050 | .TP | |
6051 | .B \et | |
6052 | horizontal tab | |
6053 | .TP | |
6054 | .B \ev | |
6055 | vertical tab | |
6056 | .TP | |
6057 | .B \e\e | |
6058 | backslash | |
6059 | .TP | |
cce855bc JA |
6060 | .B \e\fInnn\fP |
6061 | the character whose ASCII code is the octal value \fInnn\fP | |
6062 | (one to three digits) | |
6063 | .TP | |
6064 | .B \ex\fInnn\fP | |
6065 | the character whose ASCII code is the hexadecimal value \fInnn\fP | |
6066 | (one to three digits) | |
726f6388 JA |
6067 | .PD |
6068 | .RE | |
6069 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 | 6070 | \fBenable\fP [\fB\-adnps\fP] [\fB\-f\fP \fIfilename\fP] [\fIname\fP ...] |
cce855bc JA |
6071 | Enable and disable builtin shell commands. |
6072 | Disabling a builtin allows a disk command which has the same name | |
bb70624e | 6073 | as a shell builtin to be executed without specifying a full pathname, |
cce855bc | 6074 | even though the shell normally searches for builtins before disk commands. |
726f6388 JA |
6075 | If \fB\-n\fP is used, each \fIname\fP |
6076 | is disabled; otherwise, | |
6077 | \fInames\fP are enabled. For example, to use the | |
6078 | .B test | |
6079 | binary found via the | |
6080 | .SM | |
6081 | .B PATH | |
ccc6cda3 | 6082 | instead of the shell builtin version, run |
28ef6c31 JA |
6083 | .if t \f(CWenable -n test\fP. |
6084 | .if n ``enable -n test''. | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6085 | The |
6086 | .B \-f | |
6087 | option means to load the new builtin command | |
6088 | .I name | |
6089 | from shared object | |
6090 | .IR filename , | |
6091 | on systems that support dynamic loading. The | |
6092 | .B \-d | |
6093 | option will delete a builtin previously loaded with | |
6094 | .BR \-f . | |
6095 | If no \fIname\fP arguments are given, or if the | |
6096 | .B \-p | |
6097 | option is supplied, a list of shell builtins is printed. | |
6098 | With no other option arguments, the list consists of all enabled | |
6099 | shell builtins. | |
6100 | If \fB\-n\fP is supplied, only disabled builtins are printed. | |
6101 | If \fB\-a\fP is supplied, the list printed includes all builtins, with an | |
726f6388 | 6102 | indication of whether or not each is enabled. |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6103 | If \fB\-s\fP is supplied, the output is restricted to the POSIX |
6104 | \fIspecial\fP builtins. | |
726f6388 JA |
6105 | The return value is 0 unless a |
6106 | .I name | |
bb70624e | 6107 | is not a shell builtin or there is an error loading a new builtin |
ccc6cda3 | 6108 | from a shared object. |
726f6388 JA |
6109 | .TP |
6110 | \fBeval\fP [\fIarg\fP ...] | |
6111 | The \fIarg\fPs are read and concatenated together into a single | |
6112 | command. This command is then read and executed by the shell, and | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6113 | its exit status is returned as the value of |
6114 | .BR eval . | |
6115 | If there are no | |
726f6388 JA |
6116 | .IR args , |
6117 | or only null arguments, | |
6118 | .B eval | |
ccc6cda3 | 6119 | returns 0. |
726f6388 | 6120 | .TP |
cce855bc | 6121 | \fBexec\fP [\fB\-cl\fP] [\fB\-a\fP \fIname\fP] [\fIcommand\fP [\fIarguments\fP]] |
726f6388 JA |
6122 | If |
6123 | .I command | |
6124 | is specified, it replaces the shell. | |
6125 | No new process is created. The | |
6126 | .I arguments | |
6127 | become the arguments to \fIcommand\fP. | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6128 | If the |
6129 | .B \-l | |
6130 | option is supplied, | |
bb70624e | 6131 | the shell places a dash at the beginning of the zeroth arg passed to |
726f6388 | 6132 | .IR command . |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6133 | This is what |
6134 | .IR login (1) | |
6135 | does. The | |
6136 | .B \-c | |
6137 | option causes | |
6138 | .I command | |
6139 | to be executed with an empty environment. If | |
6140 | .B \-a | |
6141 | is supplied, the shell passes | |
6142 | .I name | |
6143 | as the zeroth argument to the executed command. If | |
6144 | .I command | |
726f6388 | 6145 | cannot be executed for some reason, a non-interactive shell exits, |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6146 | unless the shell option |
6147 | .B execfail | |
6148 | is enabled, in which case it returns failure. | |
6149 | An interactive shell returns failure if the file cannot be executed. | |
726f6388 JA |
6150 | If |
6151 | .I command | |
6152 | is not specified, any redirections take effect in the current shell, | |
cce855bc JA |
6153 | and the return status is 0. If there is a redirection error, the |
6154 | return status is 1. | |
726f6388 JA |
6155 | .TP |
6156 | \fBexit\fP [\fIn\fP] | |
6157 | Cause the shell to exit | |
6158 | with a status of \fIn\fP. If | |
6159 | .I n | |
6160 | is omitted, the exit status | |
6161 | is that of the last command executed. | |
6162 | A trap on | |
6163 | .SM | |
6164 | .B EXIT | |
6165 | is executed before the shell terminates. | |
6166 | .TP | |
6167 | .PD 0 | |
ccc6cda3 | 6168 | \fBexport\fP [\fB\-fn\fP\^] [\fIname\fP[=\fIword\fP]] ... |
726f6388 JA |
6169 | .TP |
6170 | .B export \-p | |
6171 | .PD | |
6172 | The supplied | |
6173 | .I names | |
6174 | are marked for automatic export to the environment of | |
6175 | subsequently executed commands. If the | |
6176 | .B \-f | |
6177 | option is given, | |
6178 | the | |
6179 | .I names | |
6180 | refer to functions. | |
6181 | If no | |
6182 | .I names | |
6183 | are given, or if the | |
6184 | .B \-p | |
6185 | option is supplied, a list | |
6186 | of all names that are exported in this shell is printed. | |
6187 | The | |
6188 | .B \-n | |
6189 | option causes the export property to be removed from the | |
ccc6cda3 | 6190 | named variables. |
726f6388 | 6191 | .B export |
cce855bc | 6192 | returns an exit status of 0 unless an invalid option is |
726f6388 | 6193 | encountered, |
cce855bc | 6194 | one of the \fInames\fP is not a valid shell variable name, or |
726f6388 JA |
6195 | .B \-f |
6196 | is supplied with a | |
6197 | .I name | |
6198 | that is not a function. | |
6199 | .TP | |
6200 | .PD 0 | |
6201 | \fBfc\fP [\fB\-e\fP \fIename\fP] [\fB\-nlr\fP] [\fIfirst\fP] [\fIlast\fP] | |
6202 | .TP | |
6203 | \fBfc\fP \fB\-s\fP [\fIpat\fP=\fIrep\fP] [\fIcmd\fP] | |
6204 | .PD | |
6205 | Fix Command. In the first form, a range of commands from | |
6206 | .I first | |
6207 | to | |
6208 | .I last | |
6209 | is selected from the history list. | |
6210 | .I First | |
6211 | and | |
6212 | .I last | |
6213 | may be specified as a string (to locate the last command beginning | |
6214 | with that string) or as a number (an index into the history list, | |
6215 | where a negative number is used as an offset from the current | |
6216 | command number). If | |
6217 | .I last | |
6218 | is not specified it is set to | |
6219 | the current command for listing (so that | |
bb70624e JA |
6220 | .if n ``fc \-l \-10'' |
6221 | .if t \f(CWfc \-l \-10\fP | |
726f6388 JA |
6222 | prints the last 10 commands) and to |
6223 | .I first | |
6224 | otherwise. | |
6225 | If | |
6226 | .I first | |
6227 | is not specified it is set to the previous | |
6228 | command for editing and \-16 for listing. | |
6229 | .sp 1 | |
6230 | The | |
6231 | .B \-n | |
cce855bc | 6232 | option suppresses |
726f6388 JA |
6233 | the command numbers when listing. The |
6234 | .B \-r | |
cce855bc | 6235 | option reverses the order of |
726f6388 JA |
6236 | the commands. If the |
6237 | .B \-l | |
cce855bc | 6238 | option is given, |
726f6388 JA |
6239 | the commands are listed on |
6240 | standard output. Otherwise, the editor given by | |
6241 | .I ename | |
6242 | is invoked | |
6243 | on a file containing those commands. If | |
6244 | .I ename | |
6245 | is not given, the | |
6246 | value of the | |
6247 | .SM | |
6248 | .B FCEDIT | |
6249 | variable is used, and | |
6250 | the value of | |
6251 | .SM | |
6252 | .B EDITOR | |
6253 | if | |
6254 | .SM | |
6255 | .B FCEDIT | |
6256 | is not set. If neither variable is set, | |
6257 | .FN vi | |
6258 | is used. When editing is complete, the edited commands are | |
6259 | echoed and executed. | |
6260 | .sp 1 | |
6261 | In the second form, \fIcommand\fP is re-executed after each instance | |
6262 | of \fIpat\fP is replaced by \fIrep\fP. | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6263 | A useful alias to use with this is |
6264 | .if n ``r=fc -s'', | |
6265 | .if t \f(CWr='fc \-s'\fP, | |
6266 | so that typing | |
6267 | .if n ``r cc'' | |
6268 | .if t \f(CWr cc\fP | |
6269 | runs the last command beginning with | |
6270 | .if n ``cc'' | |
6271 | .if t \f(CWcc\fP | |
6272 | and typing | |
6273 | .if n ``r'' | |
6274 | .if t \f(CWr\fP | |
726f6388 JA |
6275 | re-executes the last command. |
6276 | .sp 1 | |
cce855bc | 6277 | If the first form is used, the return value is 0 unless an invalid |
726f6388 JA |
6278 | option is encountered or |
6279 | .I first | |
6280 | or | |
6281 | .I last | |
6282 | specify history lines out of range. | |
6283 | If the | |
6284 | .B \-e | |
6285 | option is supplied, the return value is the value of the last | |
6286 | command executed or failure if an error occurs with the temporary | |
6287 | file of commands. If the second form is used, the return status | |
6288 | is that of the command re-executed, unless | |
6289 | .I cmd | |
6290 | does not specify a valid history line, in which case | |
6291 | .B fc | |
6292 | returns failure. | |
6293 | .TP | |
6294 | \fBfg\fP [\fIjobspec\fP] | |
cce855bc | 6295 | Resume |
726f6388 | 6296 | .I jobspec |
cce855bc JA |
6297 | in the foreground, and make it the current job. |
6298 | If | |
726f6388 JA |
6299 | .I jobspec |
6300 | is not present, the shell's notion of the \fIcurrent job\fP is used. | |
6301 | The return value is that of the command placed into the foreground, | |
6302 | or failure if run when job control is disabled or, when run with | |
6303 | job control enabled, if | |
6304 | .I jobspec | |
6305 | does not specify a valid job or | |
6306 | .I jobspec | |
6307 | specifies a job that was started without job control. | |
6308 | .TP | |
6309 | \fBgetopts\fP \fIoptstring\fP \fIname\fP [\fIargs\fP] | |
6310 | .B getopts | |
6311 | is used by shell procedures to parse positional parameters. | |
6312 | .I optstring | |
bb70624e | 6313 | contains the option characters to be recognized; if a character |
726f6388 JA |
6314 | is followed by a colon, the option is expected to have an |
6315 | argument, which should be separated from it by white space. | |
bb70624e JA |
6316 | The colon and question mark characters may not be used as |
6317 | option characters. | |
726f6388 JA |
6318 | Each time it is invoked, |
6319 | .B getopts | |
6320 | places the next option in the shell variable | |
6321 | .IR name , | |
6322 | initializing | |
6323 | .I name | |
6324 | if it does not exist, | |
6325 | and the index of the next argument to be processed into the | |
6326 | variable | |
6327 | .SM | |
6328 | .BR OPTIND . | |
6329 | .SM | |
6330 | .B OPTIND | |
6331 | is initialized to 1 each time the shell or a shell script | |
6332 | is invoked. When an option requires an argument, | |
6333 | .B getopts | |
6334 | places that argument into the variable | |
6335 | .SM | |
6336 | .BR OPTARG . | |
6337 | The shell does not reset | |
6338 | .SM | |
6339 | .B OPTIND | |
6340 | automatically; it must be manually reset between multiple | |
6341 | calls to | |
6342 | .B getopts | |
6343 | within the same shell invocation if a new set of parameters | |
6344 | is to be used. | |
6345 | .sp 1 | |
cce855bc JA |
6346 | When the end of options is encountered, \fBgetopts\fP exits with a |
6347 | return value greater than zero. | |
6348 | \fBOPTIND\fP is set to the index of the first non-option argument, | |
6349 | and \fBname\fP is set to ?. | |
6350 | .sp 1 | |
6351 | .B getopts | |
6352 | normally parses the positional parameters, but if more arguments are | |
6353 | given in | |
6354 | .IR args , | |
6355 | .B getopts | |
6356 | parses those instead. | |
6357 | .sp 1 | |
726f6388 JA |
6358 | .B getopts |
6359 | can report errors in two ways. If the first character of | |
6360 | .I optstring | |
6361 | is a colon, | |
6362 | .I silent | |
6363 | error reporting is used. In normal operation diagnostic messages | |
cce855bc | 6364 | are printed when invalid options or missing option arguments are |
726f6388 JA |
6365 | encountered. |
6366 | If the variable | |
6367 | .SM | |
6368 | .B OPTERR | |
cce855bc | 6369 | is set to 0, no error messages will be displayed, even if the first |
726f6388 JA |
6370 | character of |
6371 | .I optstring | |
6372 | is not a colon. | |
6373 | .sp 1 | |
cce855bc | 6374 | If an invalid option is seen, |
726f6388 JA |
6375 | .B getopts |
6376 | places ? into | |
6377 | .I name | |
6378 | and, if not silent, | |
6379 | prints an error message and unsets | |
6380 | .SM | |
6381 | .BR OPTARG . | |
6382 | If | |
6383 | .B getopts | |
6384 | is silent, | |
6385 | the option character found is placed in | |
6386 | .SM | |
6387 | .B OPTARG | |
6388 | and no diagnostic message is printed. | |
6389 | .sp 1 | |
6390 | If a required argument is not found, and | |
6391 | .B getopts | |
6392 | is not silent, | |
6393 | a question mark (\^\fB?\fP\^) is placed in | |
6394 | .IR name , | |
6395 | .B OPTARG | |
6396 | is unset, and a diagnostic message is printed. | |
6397 | If | |
6398 | .B getopts | |
6399 | is silent, then a colon (\^\fB:\fP\^) is placed in | |
6400 | .I name | |
6401 | and | |
6402 | .SM | |
6403 | .B OPTARG | |
6404 | is set to the option character found. | |
6405 | .sp 1 | |
6406 | .B getopts | |
726f6388 JA |
6407 | returns true if an option, specified or unspecified, is found. |
6408 | It returns false if the end of options is encountered or an | |
6409 | error occurs. | |
6410 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 | 6411 | \fBhash\fP [\fB\-r\fP] [\fB\-p\fP \fIfilename\fP] [\fIname\fP] |
726f6388 JA |
6412 | For each |
6413 | .IR name , | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6414 | the full file name of the command is determined by searching |
6415 | the directories in | |
6416 | .B $PATH | |
6417 | and remembered. | |
6418 | If the | |
6419 | .B \-p | |
6420 | option is supplied, no path search is performed, and | |
6421 | .I filename | |
6422 | is used as the full file name of the command. | |
6423 | The | |
726f6388 JA |
6424 | .B \-r |
6425 | option causes the shell to forget all | |
6426 | remembered locations. If no arguments are given, information | |
6427 | about remembered commands is printed. | |
ccc6cda3 | 6428 | The return status is true unless a |
726f6388 | 6429 | .I name |
cce855bc | 6430 | is not found or an invalid option is supplied. |
726f6388 | 6431 | .TP |
bb70624e | 6432 | \fBhelp\fP [\fB\-s\fP] [\fIpattern\fP] |
726f6388 JA |
6433 | Display helpful information about builtin commands. If |
6434 | .I pattern | |
6435 | is specified, | |
6436 | .B help | |
6437 | gives detailed help on all commands matching | |
6438 | .IR pattern ; | |
ccc6cda3 | 6439 | otherwise help for all the builtins and shell control structures |
bb70624e JA |
6440 | is printed. |
6441 | The \fB\-s\fP option restricts the information displayed to a short | |
6442 | usage synopsis. | |
6443 | The return status is 0 unless no command matches | |
726f6388 JA |
6444 | .IR pattern . |
6445 | .TP | |
6446 | .PD 0 | |
bb70624e JA |
6447 | \fBhistory [\fIn\fP] |
6448 | .TP | |
6449 | \fBhistory\fP \fB\-c\fP | |
6450 | .TP | |
6451 | \fBhistory \-d\fP \fIoffset\fP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6452 | .TP |
6453 | \fBhistory\fP \fB\-anrw\fP [\fIfilename\fP] | |
726f6388 | 6454 | .TP |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6455 | \fBhistory\fP \fB\-p\fP \fIarg\fP [\fIarg ...\fP] |
6456 | .TP | |
6457 | \fBhistory\fP \fB\-s\fP \fIarg\fP [\fIarg ...\fP] | |
726f6388 JA |
6458 | .PD |
6459 | With no options, display the command | |
6460 | history list with line numbers. Lines listed | |
6461 | with a | |
6462 | .B * | |
6463 | have been modified. An argument of | |
6464 | .I n | |
6465 | lists only the last | |
6466 | .I n | |
ccc6cda3 | 6467 | lines. If \fIfilename\fP is supplied, it is used as the |
726f6388 JA |
6468 | name of the history file; if not, the value of |
6469 | .SM | |
6470 | .B HISTFILE | |
6471 | is used. Options, if supplied, have the following meanings: | |
6472 | .RS | |
6473 | .PD 0 | |
6474 | .TP | |
bb70624e JA |
6475 | .B \-c |
6476 | Clear the history list by deleting all the entries. | |
6477 | .TP | |
6478 | \fB\-d\fP \fIoffset\fP | |
6479 | Delete the history entry at position \fIoffset\fP. | |
6480 | .TP | |
726f6388 JA |
6481 | .B \-a |
6482 | Append the ``new'' history lines (history lines entered since the | |
ccc6cda3 | 6483 | beginning of the current \fBbash\fP session) to the history file. |
726f6388 JA |
6484 | .TP |
6485 | .B \-n | |
6486 | Read the history lines not already read from the history | |
6487 | file into the current history list. These are lines | |
6488 | appended to the history file since the beginning of the | |
6489 | current \fBbash\fP session. | |
6490 | .TP | |
6491 | .B \-r | |
6492 | Read the contents of the history file | |
ccc6cda3 | 6493 | and use them as the current history. |
726f6388 JA |
6494 | .TP |
6495 | .B \-w | |
6496 | Write the current history to the history file, overwriting the | |
6497 | history file's contents. | |
ccc6cda3 | 6498 | .TP |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6499 | .B \-p |
6500 | Perform history substitution on the following \fIargs\fP and display | |
6501 | the result on the standard output. | |
6502 | Does not store the results in the history list. | |
6503 | Each \fIarg\fP must be quoted to disable normal history expansion. | |
6504 | .TP | |
6505 | .B \-s | |
6506 | Store the | |
6507 | .I args | |
6508 | in the history list as a single entry. The last command in the | |
6509 | history list is removed before the | |
6510 | .I args | |
6511 | are added. | |
726f6388 JA |
6512 | .PD |
6513 | .PP | |
bb70624e JA |
6514 | The return value is 0 unless an invalid option is encountered, an |
6515 | error occurs while reading or writing the history file, an invalid | |
6516 | \fIoffset\fP is supplied as an argument to \fB\-d\fP, or the | |
6517 | history expansion supplied as an argument to \fB\-p\fP fails. | |
726f6388 JA |
6518 | .RE |
6519 | .TP | |
6520 | .PD 0 | |
ccc6cda3 | 6521 | \fBjobs\fP [\fB\-lnprs\fP] [ \fIjobspec\fP ... ] |
726f6388 JA |
6522 | .TP |
6523 | \fBjobs\fP \fB\-x\fP \fIcommand\fP [ \fIargs\fP ... ] | |
6524 | .PD | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6525 | The first form lists the active jobs. The options have the following |
6526 | meanings: | |
6527 | .RS | |
6528 | .PD 0 | |
6529 | .TP | |
726f6388 | 6530 | .B \-l |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6531 | List process IDs |
6532 | in addition to the normal information. | |
6533 | .TP | |
726f6388 | 6534 | .B \-p |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6535 | List only the process ID of the job's process group |
6536 | leader. | |
6537 | .TP | |
726f6388 | 6538 | .B \-n |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6539 | Display information only about jobs that have changed status since |
6540 | the user was last notified of their status. | |
6541 | .TP | |
6542 | .B \-r | |
6543 | Restrict output to running jobs. | |
6544 | .TP | |
6545 | .B \-s | |
6546 | Restrict output to stopped jobs. | |
6547 | .PD | |
6548 | .PP | |
6549 | If | |
726f6388 JA |
6550 | .I jobspec |
6551 | is given, output is restricted to information about that job. | |
cce855bc JA |
6552 | The return status is 0 unless an invalid option is encountered |
6553 | or an invalid | |
726f6388 JA |
6554 | .I jobspec |
6555 | is supplied. | |
ccc6cda3 | 6556 | .PP |
726f6388 JA |
6557 | If the |
6558 | .B \-x | |
6559 | option is supplied, | |
6560 | .B jobs | |
6561 | replaces any | |
6562 | .I jobspec | |
6563 | found in | |
6564 | .I command | |
6565 | or | |
6566 | .I args | |
6567 | with the corresponding process group ID, and executes | |
6568 | .I command | |
6569 | passing it | |
6570 | .IR args , | |
6571 | returning its exit status. | |
ccc6cda3 | 6572 | .RE |
726f6388 JA |
6573 | .TP |
6574 | .PD 0 | |
ccc6cda3 | 6575 | \fBkill\fP [\fB\-s\fP \fIsigspec\fP | \fB\-n\fP \fIsignum\fP | \fB\-\fP\fIsigspec\fP] [\fIpid\fP | \fIjobspec\fP] ... |
726f6388 | 6576 | .TP |
cce855bc | 6577 | \fBkill\fP \fB\-l\fP [\fIsigspec\fP | \fIexit_status\fP] |
726f6388 JA |
6578 | .PD |
6579 | Send the signal named by | |
6580 | .I sigspec | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6581 | or |
6582 | .I signum | |
726f6388 JA |
6583 | to the processes named by |
6584 | .I pid | |
6585 | or | |
6586 | .IR jobspec . | |
6587 | .I sigspec | |
6588 | is either a signal name such as | |
6589 | .SM | |
6590 | .B SIGKILL | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6591 | or a signal number; |
6592 | .I signum | |
6593 | is a signal number. If | |
726f6388 | 6594 | .I sigspec |
ccc6cda3 | 6595 | is a signal name, the name may be |
726f6388 JA |
6596 | given with or without the |
6597 | .SM | |
6598 | .B SIG | |
6599 | prefix. | |
6600 | If | |
6601 | .I sigspec | |
6602 | is not present, then | |
6603 | .SM | |
6604 | .B SIGTERM | |
cce855bc JA |
6605 | is assumed. |
6606 | An argument of | |
726f6388 | 6607 | .B \-l |
cce855bc JA |
6608 | lists the signal names. |
6609 | If any arguments are supplied when | |
726f6388 | 6610 | .B \-l |
cce855bc JA |
6611 | is given, the names of the signals corresponding to the arguments are |
6612 | listed, and the return status is 0. | |
6613 | The \fIexit_status\fP argument to | |
ccc6cda3 | 6614 | .B \-l |
cce855bc JA |
6615 | is a number specifying either a signal number or the exit status of |
6616 | a process terminated by a signal. | |
726f6388 JA |
6617 | .B kill |
6618 | returns true if at least one signal was successfully sent, or false | |
cce855bc | 6619 | if an error occurs or an invalid option is encountered. |
726f6388 JA |
6620 | .TP |
6621 | \fBlet\fP \fIarg\fP [\fIarg\fP ...] | |
6622 | Each | |
6623 | .I arg | |
6624 | is an arithmetic expression to be evaluated (see | |
6625 | .SM | |
6626 | .BR "ARITHMETIC EVALUATION" ). | |
6627 | If the last | |
6628 | .I arg | |
6629 | evaluates to 0, | |
6630 | .B let | |
6631 | returns 1; 0 is returned otherwise. | |
6632 | .TP | |
bb70624e | 6633 | \fBlocal\fP [\fIoption\fP] [\fIname\fP[=\fIvalue\fP] ...] |
cce855bc JA |
6634 | For each argument, a local variable named |
6635 | .I name | |
6636 | is created, and assigned | |
726f6388 | 6637 | .IR value . |
bb70624e | 6638 | The \fIoption\fP can be any of the options accepted by \fBdeclare\fP. |
726f6388 JA |
6639 | When |
6640 | .B local | |
6641 | is used within a function, it causes the variable | |
6642 | .I name | |
6643 | to have a visible scope restricted to that function and its children. | |
6644 | With no operands, | |
6645 | .B local | |
6646 | writes a list of local variables to the standard output. It is | |
6647 | an error to use | |
6648 | .B local | |
6649 | when not within a function. The return status is 0 unless | |
6650 | .B local | |
bb70624e | 6651 | is used outside a function, an invalid |
726f6388 | 6652 | .I name |
bb70624e JA |
6653 | is supplied, or |
6654 | \fIname\fP is a readonly variable. | |
726f6388 JA |
6655 | .TP |
6656 | .B logout | |
6657 | Exit a login shell. | |
6658 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 | 6659 | \fBpopd\fP [\-\fBn\fP] [+\fIn\fP] [\-\fIn\fP] |
726f6388 JA |
6660 | Removes entries from the directory stack. With no arguments, |
6661 | removes the top directory from the stack, and performs a | |
6662 | .B cd | |
6663 | to the new top directory. | |
ccc6cda3 | 6664 | Arguments, if supplied, have the following meanings: |
726f6388 JA |
6665 | .RS |
6666 | .PD 0 | |
6667 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6668 | \fB+\fP\fIn\fP |
6669 | Removes the \fIn\fPth entry counting from the left of the list | |
726f6388 JA |
6670 | shown by |
6671 | .BR dirs , | |
bb70624e JA |
6672 | starting with zero. For example: |
6673 | .if n ``popd +0'' | |
6674 | .if t \f(CWpopd +0\fP | |
6675 | removes the first directory, | |
6676 | .if n ``popd +1'' | |
6677 | .if t \f(CWpopd +1\fP | |
6678 | the second. | |
726f6388 | 6679 | .TP |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6680 | \fB\-\fP\fIn\fP |
6681 | Removes the \fIn\fPth entry counting from the right of the list | |
726f6388 JA |
6682 | shown by |
6683 | .BR dirs , | |
bb70624e JA |
6684 | starting with zero. For example: |
6685 | .if n ``popd -0'' | |
6686 | .if t \f(CWpopd -0\fP | |
6687 | removes the last directory, | |
6688 | .if n ``popd -1'' | |
6689 | .if t \f(CWpopd -1\fP | |
6690 | the next to last. | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6691 | .TP |
6692 | .B \-n | |
6693 | Suppresses the normal change of directory when removing directories | |
6694 | from the stack, so that only the stack is manipulated. | |
726f6388 JA |
6695 | .PD |
6696 | .PP | |
6697 | If the | |
6698 | .B popd | |
6699 | command is successful, a | |
6700 | .B dirs | |
6701 | is performed as well, and the return status is 0. | |
6702 | .B popd | |
cce855bc | 6703 | returns false if an invalid option is encountered, the directory stack |
726f6388 JA |
6704 | is empty, a non-existent directory stack entry is specified, or the |
6705 | directory change fails. | |
6706 | .RE | |
6707 | .TP | |
cce855bc JA |
6708 | \fBprintf\fP \fIformat\fP [\fIarguments\fP] |
6709 | Write the formatted \fIarguments\fP to the standard output under the | |
6710 | control of the \fIformat\fP. | |
6711 | The \fIformat\fP is a character string which contains three types of objects: | |
6712 | plain characters, which are simply copied to standard output, character | |
6713 | escape sequences, which are converted and copied to the standard output, and | |
6714 | format specifications, each of which causes printing of the next successive | |
6715 | \fIargument\fP. | |
6716 | In addition to the standard \fIprintf\fP(1) formats, %b causes | |
6717 | \fBprintf\fP to expand backslash escape sequences in the corresponding | |
6718 | \fIargument\fP, and %q causes \fBprintf\fP to output the corresponding | |
6719 | \fIargument\fP in a format that can be reused as shell input. | |
6720 | .sp 1 | |
6721 | The \fIformat\fP is reused as necessary to consume all of the \fIarguments\fP. | |
6722 | If the \fIformat\fP requires more \fIarguments\fP than are supplied, the | |
6723 | extra format specifications behave as if a zero value or null string, as | |
bb70624e JA |
6724 | appropriate, had been supplied. The return value is zero on success, |
6725 | non-zero on failure. | |
cce855bc | 6726 | .TP |
726f6388 | 6727 | .PD 0 |
ccc6cda3 | 6728 | \fBpushd\fP [\fB\-n\fP] [\fIdir\fP] |
726f6388 | 6729 | .TP |
ccc6cda3 | 6730 | \fBpushd\fP [\fB\-n\fP] [+\fIn\fP] [\-\fIn\fP] |
726f6388 JA |
6731 | .PD |
6732 | Adds a directory to the top of the directory stack, or rotates | |
6733 | the stack, making the new top of the stack the current working | |
6734 | directory. With no arguments, exchanges the top two directories | |
6735 | and returns 0, unless the directory stack is empty. | |
ccc6cda3 | 6736 | Arguments, if supplied, have the following meanings: |
726f6388 JA |
6737 | .RS |
6738 | .PD 0 | |
6739 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 | 6740 | \fB+\fP\fIn\fP |
726f6388 JA |
6741 | Rotates the stack so that the \fIn\fPth directory |
6742 | (counting from the left of the list shown by | |
d166f048 JA |
6743 | .BR dirs , |
6744 | starting with zero) | |
726f6388 JA |
6745 | is at the top. |
6746 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 | 6747 | \fB\-\fP\fIn\fP |
726f6388 | 6748 | Rotates the stack so that the \fIn\fPth directory |
d166f048 JA |
6749 | (counting from the right of the list shown by |
6750 | .BR dirs , | |
6751 | starting with zero) is at the top. | |
726f6388 | 6752 | .TP |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6753 | .B \-n |
6754 | Suppresses the normal change of directory when adding directories | |
6755 | to the stack, so that only the stack is manipulated. | |
6756 | .TP | |
bb70624e | 6757 | .I dir |
ccc6cda3 | 6758 | Adds |
726f6388 JA |
6759 | .I dir |
6760 | to the directory stack at the top, making it the | |
6761 | new current working directory. | |
6762 | .PD | |
6763 | .PP | |
6764 | If the | |
6765 | .B pushd | |
6766 | command is successful, a | |
6767 | .B dirs | |
6768 | is performed as well. | |
6769 | If the first form is used, | |
6770 | .B pushd | |
6771 | returns 0 unless the cd to | |
6772 | .I dir | |
6773 | fails. With the second form, | |
6774 | .B pushd | |
6775 | returns 0 unless the directory stack is empty, | |
ccc6cda3 | 6776 | a non-existent directory stack element is specified, |
726f6388 JA |
6777 | or the directory change to the specified new current directory |
6778 | fails. | |
6779 | .RE | |
6780 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 | 6781 | \fBpwd\fP [\fB\-LP\fP] |
bb70624e JA |
6782 | Print the absolute pathname of the current working directory. |
6783 | The pathname printed contains no symbolic links if the | |
726f6388 | 6784 | .B \-P |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6785 | option is supplied or the |
6786 | .B \-o physical | |
726f6388 JA |
6787 | option to the |
6788 | .B set | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6789 | builtin command is enabled. |
6790 | If the | |
6791 | .B \-L | |
bb70624e | 6792 | option is used, the pathname printed may contain symbolic links. |
ccc6cda3 | 6793 | The return status is 0 unless an error occurs while |
cce855bc JA |
6794 | reading the name of the current directory or an |
6795 | invalid option is supplied. | |
726f6388 | 6796 | .TP |
bb70624e | 6797 | \fBread\fP [\fB\-ers\fP] [\fB\-t\fP \fItimeout\fP] [\fB\-a\fP \fIaname\fP] [\fB\-p\fP \fIprompt\fP] [\fB\-n\fP \fInchars\fP] [\fB\-d\fP \fIdelim\fP] [\fIname\fP ...] |
726f6388 JA |
6798 | One line is read from the standard input, and the first word |
6799 | is assigned to the first | |
6800 | .IR name , | |
6801 | the second word to the second | |
6802 | .IR name , | |
cce855bc JA |
6803 | and so on, with leftover words and their intervening separators assigned |
6804 | to the last | |
726f6388 | 6805 | .IR name . |
cce855bc JA |
6806 | If there are fewer words read from the standard input than names, |
6807 | the remaining names are assigned empty values. | |
6808 | The characters in | |
726f6388 JA |
6809 | .SM |
6810 | .B IFS | |
cce855bc | 6811 | are used to split the line into words. |
b72432fd JA |
6812 | The backslash character (\fB\e\fP) may be used to remove any special |
6813 | meaning for the next character read and for line continuation. | |
cce855bc | 6814 | Options, if supplied, have the following meanings: |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6815 | .RS |
6816 | .PD 0 | |
6817 | .TP | |
bb70624e | 6818 | .B \-a \fIaname\fP |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6819 | The words are assigned to sequential indices |
6820 | of the array variable | |
6821 | .IR aname , | |
6822 | starting at 0. | |
6823 | .I aname | |
6824 | is unset before any new values are assigned. | |
cce855bc | 6825 | Other \fIname\fP arguments are ignored. |
ccc6cda3 | 6826 | .TP |
bb70624e JA |
6827 | .B \-d \fIdelim\fP |
6828 | The first character of \fIdelim\fP is used to terminate the input line, | |
6829 | rather than newline. | |
6830 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6831 | .B \-e |
6832 | If the standard input | |
6833 | is coming from a terminal, | |
6834 | .B readline | |
6835 | (see | |
6836 | .SM | |
6837 | .B READLINE | |
6838 | above) is used to obtain the line. | |
bb70624e JA |
6839 | .TP |
6840 | .B \-n \fInchars\fP | |
6841 | \fBread\fP returns after reading \fInchars\fP characters rather than | |
6842 | waiting for a complete line of input. | |
6843 | .TP | |
6844 | .B \-p \fIprompt\fP | |
6845 | Display \fIprompt\fP, without a | |
6846 | trailing newline, before attempting to read any input. The prompt | |
6847 | is displayed only if input is coming from a terminal. | |
6848 | .TP | |
6849 | .B \-r | |
6850 | Backslash does not act as an escape character. | |
6851 | The backslash is considered to be part of the line. | |
6852 | In particular, a backslash-newline pair may not be used as a line | |
6853 | continuation. | |
6854 | .TP | |
6855 | .B \-s | |
6856 | Silent mode. If input is coming from a terminal, characters are | |
6857 | not echoed. | |
6858 | .TP | |
6859 | .B \-t \fItimeout\fP | |
6860 | Cause \fBread\fP to time out and return failure if a complete line of | |
6861 | input is not read within \fItimeout\fP seconds. | |
6862 | This option has no effect if \fBread\fP is not reading input from the | |
6863 | terminal or a pipe. | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6864 | .PD |
6865 | .PP | |
6866 | If no | |
726f6388 JA |
6867 | .I names |
6868 | are supplied, the line read is assigned to the variable | |
6869 | .SM | |
6870 | .BR REPLY . | |
bb70624e JA |
6871 | The return code is zero, unless end-of-file is encountered or \fBread\fP |
6872 | times out. | |
ccc6cda3 | 6873 | .RE |
726f6388 | 6874 | .TP |
ccc6cda3 | 6875 | \fBreadonly\fP [\fB\-apf\fP] [\fIname\fP ...] |
726f6388 JA |
6876 | .PD |
6877 | The given | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6878 | \fInames\fP are marked readonly; the values of these |
6879 | .I names | |
726f6388 JA |
6880 | may not be changed by subsequent assignment. |
6881 | If the | |
6882 | .B \-f | |
6883 | option is supplied, the functions corresponding to the | |
6884 | \fInames\fP are so | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6885 | marked. |
6886 | The | |
6887 | .B \-a | |
6888 | option restricts the variables to arrays. | |
6889 | If no | |
6890 | .I name | |
6891 | arguments are given, or if the | |
726f6388 | 6892 | .B \-p |
ccc6cda3 | 6893 | option is supplied, a list of all readonly names is printed. |
cce855bc JA |
6894 | The |
6895 | .B \-p | |
bb70624e JA |
6896 | option causes output to be displayed in a format that |
6897 | may be reused as input. | |
cce855bc | 6898 | The return status is 0 unless an invalid option is encountered, |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6899 | one of the |
6900 | .I names | |
cce855bc | 6901 | is not a valid shell variable name, or |
726f6388 JA |
6902 | .B \-f |
6903 | is supplied with a | |
6904 | .I name | |
6905 | that is not a function. | |
6906 | .TP | |
6907 | \fBreturn\fP [\fIn\fP] | |
6908 | Causes a function to exit with the return value specified by | |
6909 | .IR n . | |
6910 | If | |
6911 | .I n | |
6912 | is omitted, the return status is that of the last command | |
6913 | executed in the function body. If used outside a function, | |
6914 | but during execution of a script by the | |
6915 | .B . | |
6916 | (\fBsource\fP) command, it causes the shell to stop executing | |
6917 | that script and return either | |
6918 | .I n | |
6919 | or the exit status of the last command executed within the | |
6920 | script as the exit status of the script. If used outside a | |
6921 | function and not during execution of a script by \fB.\fP\^, | |
6922 | the return status is false. | |
6923 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6924 | \fBset\fP [\fB\-\-abefhkmnptuvxBCHP\fP] [\fB\-o\fP \fIoption\fP] [\fIarg\fP ...] |
6925 | Without options, the name and value of each shell variable are displayed | |
cce855bc JA |
6926 | in a format that can be reused as input. |
6927 | The output is sorted according to the current locale. | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6928 | When options are specified, they set or unset shell attributes. |
6929 | Any arguments remaining after the options are processed are treated | |
6930 | as values for the positional parameters and are assigned, in order, to | |
6931 | .BR $1 , | |
6932 | .BR $2 , | |
6933 | .B ... | |
6934 | .BR $\fIn\fP . | |
6935 | Options, if specified, have the following meanings: | |
726f6388 JA |
6936 | .RS |
6937 | .PD 0 | |
6938 | .TP 8 | |
6939 | .B \-a | |
28ef6c31 JA |
6940 | Automatically mark variables and functions which are modified or created |
6941 | for export to the environment of subsequent commands. | |
726f6388 JA |
6942 | .TP 8 |
6943 | .B \-b | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6944 | Report the status of terminated background jobs |
6945 | immediately, rather than before the next primary prompt. This is | |
6946 | effective only when job control is enabled. | |
726f6388 JA |
6947 | .TP 8 |
6948 | .B \-e | |
ccc6cda3 | 6949 | Exit immediately if a \fIsimple command\fP (see |
726f6388 JA |
6950 | .SM |
6951 | .B SHELL GRAMMAR | |
ccc6cda3 | 6952 | above) exits with a non-zero status. The shell does not exit if the |
726f6388 JA |
6953 | command that fails is part of an |
6954 | .I until | |
6955 | or | |
6956 | .I while | |
6957 | loop, | |
6958 | part of an | |
6959 | .I if | |
6960 | statement, part of a | |
6961 | .B && | |
6962 | or | |
ccc6cda3 | 6963 | .B \(bv\(bv |
726f6388 JA |
6964 | list, or if the command's return value is |
6965 | being inverted via | |
6966 | .BR ! . | |
6967 | .TP 8 | |
6968 | .B \-f | |
6969 | Disable pathname expansion. | |
6970 | .TP 8 | |
6971 | .B \-h | |
ccc6cda3 | 6972 | Remember the location of commands as they are looked up for execution. |
cce855bc | 6973 | This is enabled by default. |
726f6388 JA |
6974 | .TP 8 |
6975 | .B \-k | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6976 | All arguments in the form of assignment statements |
6977 | are placed in the environment for a command, not just | |
6978 | those that precede the command name. | |
726f6388 JA |
6979 | .TP 8 |
6980 | .B \-m | |
cce855bc | 6981 | Monitor mode. Job control is enabled. This option is on |
726f6388 JA |
6982 | by default for interactive shells on systems that support |
6983 | it (see | |
6984 | .SM | |
6985 | .B JOB CONTROL | |
6986 | above). Background processes run in a separate process | |
6987 | group and a line containing their exit status is printed | |
6988 | upon their completion. | |
6989 | .TP 8 | |
6990 | .B \-n | |
6991 | Read commands but do not execute them. This may be used to | |
ccc6cda3 | 6992 | check a shell script for syntax errors. This is ignored by |
726f6388 JA |
6993 | interactive shells. |
6994 | .TP 8 | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
6995 | .B \-o \fIoption\-name\fP |
6996 | The \fIoption\-name\fP can be one of the following: | |
726f6388 JA |
6997 | .RS |
6998 | .TP 8 | |
6999 | .B allexport | |
7000 | Same as | |
7001 | .BR \-a . | |
7002 | .TP 8 | |
7003 | .B braceexpand | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7004 | Same as |
7005 | .BR \-B . | |
726f6388 JA |
7006 | .TP 8 |
7007 | .B emacs | |
7008 | Use an emacs-style command line editing interface. This is enabled | |
7009 | by default when the shell is interactive, unless the shell is started | |
7010 | with the | |
ccc6cda3 | 7011 | .B \-\-noediting |
726f6388 JA |
7012 | option. |
7013 | .TP 8 | |
7014 | .B errexit | |
7015 | Same as | |
7016 | .BR \-e . | |
7017 | .TP 8 | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7018 | .B hashall |
7019 | Same as | |
7020 | .BR \-h . | |
7021 | .TP 8 | |
726f6388 JA |
7022 | .B histexpand |
7023 | Same as | |
7024 | .BR \-H . | |
7025 | .TP 8 | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7026 | .B history |
7027 | Enable command history, as described above under | |
7028 | .SM | |
7029 | .BR HISTORY . | |
7030 | This option is on by default in interactive shells. | |
7031 | .TP 8 | |
726f6388 | 7032 | .B ignoreeof |
28ef6c31 JA |
7033 | The effect is as if the shell command |
7034 | .if t \f(CWIGNOREEOF=10\fP | |
7035 | .if n ``IGNOREEOF=10'' | |
7036 | had been executed | |
726f6388 JA |
7037 | (see |
7038 | .B Shell Variables | |
7039 | above). | |
7040 | .TP 8 | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7041 | .B keyword |
7042 | Same as | |
7043 | .BR \-k . | |
726f6388 JA |
7044 | .TP 8 |
7045 | .B monitor | |
7046 | Same as | |
7047 | .BR \-m . | |
7048 | .TP 8 | |
7049 | .B noclobber | |
7050 | Same as | |
7051 | .BR \-C . | |
7052 | .TP 8 | |
7053 | .B noexec | |
7054 | Same as | |
7055 | .BR \-n . | |
7056 | .TP 8 | |
7057 | .B noglob | |
7058 | Same as | |
7059 | .BR \-f . | |
7060 | .TP 8 | |
726f6388 JA |
7061 | .B notify |
7062 | Same as | |
7063 | .BR \-b . | |
7064 | .TP 8 | |
7065 | .B nounset | |
7066 | Same as | |
7067 | .BR \-u . | |
7068 | .TP 8 | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7069 | .B onecmd |
7070 | Same as | |
7071 | .BR \-t . | |
7072 | .TP 8 | |
726f6388 JA |
7073 | .B physical |
7074 | Same as | |
7075 | .BR \-P . | |
7076 | .TP 8 | |
7077 | .B posix | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7078 | Change the behavior of |
7079 | .B bash | |
7080 | where the default operation differs | |
28ef6c31 | 7081 | from the POSIX 1003.2 standard to match the standard (\fIposix mode\fP). |
726f6388 JA |
7082 | .TP 8 |
7083 | .B privileged | |
7084 | Same as | |
7085 | .BR \-p . | |
7086 | .TP 8 | |
7087 | .B verbose | |
7088 | Same as | |
7089 | .BR \-v . | |
7090 | .TP 8 | |
7091 | .B vi | |
7092 | Use a vi-style command line editing interface. | |
7093 | .TP 8 | |
7094 | .B xtrace | |
7095 | Same as | |
7096 | .BR \-x . | |
ccc6cda3 | 7097 | .sp .5 |
726f6388 | 7098 | .PP |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7099 | If |
7100 | .B \-o | |
7101 | is supplied with no \fIoption\-name\fP, the values of the current options are | |
726f6388 | 7102 | printed. |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7103 | If |
7104 | .B +o | |
7105 | is supplied with no \fIoption\-name\fP, a series of | |
7106 | .B set | |
7107 | commands to recreate the current option settings is displayed on | |
7108 | the standard output. | |
726f6388 JA |
7109 | .RE |
7110 | .TP 8 | |
7111 | .B \-p | |
7112 | Turn on | |
7113 | .I privileged | |
7114 | mode. In this mode, the | |
bb70624e | 7115 | .SM |
726f6388 | 7116 | .B $ENV |
b72432fd | 7117 | and |
bb70624e | 7118 | .SM |
b72432fd JA |
7119 | .B $BASH_ENV |
7120 | files are not processed, shell functions are not inherited from the | |
bb70624e JA |
7121 | environment, and the |
7122 | .SM | |
7123 | .B SHELLOPTS | |
7124 | variable, if it appears in the environment, is ignored. | |
b72432fd JA |
7125 | If the shell is started with the effective user (group) id not equal to the |
7126 | real user (group) id, and the \fB\-p\fP option is not supplied, these actions | |
7127 | are taken and the effective user id is set to the real user id. | |
7128 | If the \fB\-p\fP option is supplied at startup, the effective user id is | |
7129 | not reset. | |
cce855bc | 7130 | Turning this option off causes the effective user |
726f6388 JA |
7131 | and group ids to be set to the real user and group ids. |
7132 | .TP 8 | |
7133 | .B \-t | |
7134 | Exit after reading and executing one command. | |
7135 | .TP 8 | |
7136 | .B \-u | |
7137 | Treat unset variables as an error when performing | |
7138 | parameter expansion. If expansion is attempted on an | |
7139 | unset variable, the shell prints an error message, and, | |
ccc6cda3 | 7140 | if not interactive, exits with a non-zero status. |
726f6388 JA |
7141 | .TP 8 |
7142 | .B \-v | |
7143 | Print shell input lines as they are read. | |
7144 | .TP 8 | |
7145 | .B \-x | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7146 | After expanding each \fIsimple command\fP, |
7147 | display the expanded value of | |
726f6388 JA |
7148 | .SM |
7149 | .BR PS4 , | |
7150 | followed by the command and its expanded arguments. | |
7151 | .TP 8 | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7152 | .B \-B |
7153 | The shell performs brace expansion (see | |
7154 | .B Brace Expansion | |
7155 | above). This is on by default. | |
726f6388 JA |
7156 | .TP 8 |
7157 | .B \-C | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7158 | If set, |
7159 | .B bash | |
7160 | does not overwrite an existing file with the | |
7161 | .BR > , | |
7162 | .BR >& , | |
7163 | and | |
7164 | .B <> | |
7165 | redirection operators. This may be overridden when | |
7166 | creating output files by using the redirection operator | |
7167 | .B >| | |
7168 | instead of | |
7169 | .BR > . | |
726f6388 JA |
7170 | .TP 8 |
7171 | .B \-H | |
7172 | Enable | |
7173 | .B ! | |
cce855bc | 7174 | style history substitution. This option is on by |
726f6388 JA |
7175 | default when the shell is interactive. |
7176 | .TP 8 | |
7177 | .B \-P | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7178 | If set, the shell does not follow symbolic links when executing |
7179 | commands such as | |
726f6388 | 7180 | .B cd |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7181 | that change the current working directory. It uses the |
7182 | physical directory structure instead. By default, | |
7183 | .B bash | |
7184 | follows the logical chain of directories when performing commands | |
7185 | which change the current directory. | |
726f6388 JA |
7186 | .TP 8 |
7187 | .B \-\- | |
cce855bc | 7188 | If no arguments follow this option, then the positional parameters are |
726f6388 JA |
7189 | unset. Otherwise, the positional parameters are set to the |
7190 | \fIarg\fPs, even if some of them begin with a | |
7191 | .BR \- . | |
7192 | .TP 8 | |
7193 | .B \- | |
7194 | Signal the end of options, cause all remaining \fIarg\fPs to be | |
7195 | assigned to the positional parameters. The | |
7196 | .B \-x | |
7197 | and | |
7198 | .B \-v | |
7199 | options are turned off. | |
7200 | If there are no \fIarg\fPs, | |
7201 | the positional parameters remain unchanged. | |
7202 | .PD | |
7203 | .PP | |
cce855bc JA |
7204 | The options are off by default unless otherwise noted. |
7205 | Using + rather than \- causes these options to be turned off. | |
7206 | The options can also be specified as arguments to an invocation of | |
7207 | the shell. | |
7208 | The current set of options may be found in | |
726f6388 | 7209 | .BR $\- . |
cce855bc | 7210 | The return status is always true unless an invalid option is encountered. |
726f6388 JA |
7211 | .RE |
7212 | .TP | |
7213 | \fBshift\fP [\fIn\fP] | |
7214 | The positional parameters from \fIn\fP+1 ... are renamed to | |
7215 | .B $1 | |
7216 | .B .... | |
7217 | Parameters represented by the numbers \fB$#\fP | |
7218 | down to \fB$#\fP\-\fIn\fP+1 are unset. | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7219 | .I n |
7220 | must be a non-negative number less than or equal to \fB$#\fP. | |
726f6388 JA |
7221 | If |
7222 | .I n | |
7223 | is 0, no parameters are changed. | |
7224 | If | |
7225 | .I n | |
7226 | is not given, it is assumed to be 1. | |
726f6388 JA |
7227 | If |
7228 | .I n | |
7229 | is greater than \fB$#\fP, the positional parameters are not changed. | |
ccc6cda3 | 7230 | The return status is greater than zero if |
726f6388 JA |
7231 | .I n |
7232 | is greater than | |
7233 | .B $# | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7234 | or less than zero; otherwise 0. |
7235 | .TP | |
7236 | \fBshopt\fP [\fB\-pqsu\fP] [\fB\-o\fP] [\fIoptname\fP ...] | |
7237 | Toggle the values of variables controlling optional shell behavior. | |
7238 | With no options, or with the | |
7239 | .B \-p | |
7240 | option, a list of all settable options is displayed, with | |
cce855bc JA |
7241 | an indication of whether or not each is set. |
7242 | The \fB\-p\fP option causes output to be displayed in a form that | |
7243 | may be reused as input. | |
7244 | Other options have the following meanings: | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7245 | .RS |
7246 | .PD 0 | |
7247 | .TP | |
7248 | .B \-s | |
7249 | Enable (set) each \fIoptname\fP. | |
7250 | .TP | |
7251 | .B \-u | |
7252 | Disable (unset) each \fIoptname\fP. | |
7253 | .TP | |
7254 | .B \-q | |
7255 | Suppresses normal output (quiet mode); the return status indicates | |
7256 | whether the \fIoptname\fP is set or unset. | |
7257 | If multiple \fIoptname\fP arguments are given with | |
7258 | .BR \-q , | |
7259 | the return status is zero if all \fIoptnames\fP are enabled; non-zero | |
7260 | otherwise. | |
7261 | .TP | |
7262 | .B \-o | |
7263 | Restricts the values of \fIoptname\fP to be those defined for the | |
7264 | .B \-o | |
7265 | option to the | |
7266 | .B set | |
7267 | builtin. | |
7268 | .PD | |
7269 | .PP | |
7270 | If either | |
7271 | .B \-s | |
7272 | or | |
7273 | .B \-u | |
7274 | is used with no \fIoptname\fP arguments, the display is limited to | |
7275 | those options which are set or unset, respectively. | |
7276 | Unless otherwise noted, the \fBshopt\fP options are disabled (unset) | |
7277 | by default. | |
7278 | .PP | |
7279 | The return status when listing options is zero if all \fIoptnames\fP | |
7280 | are enabled, non-zero otherwise. When setting or unsetting options, | |
cce855bc | 7281 | the return status is zero unless an \fIoptname\fP is not a valid shell |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7282 | option. |
7283 | .PP | |
7284 | The list of \fBshopt\fP options is: | |
7285 | .if t .sp .5v | |
7286 | .if n .sp 1v | |
7287 | .PD 0 | |
7288 | .TP 8 | |
7289 | .B cdable_vars | |
7290 | If set, an argument to the | |
7291 | .B cd | |
7292 | builtin command that | |
7293 | is not a directory is assumed to be the name of a variable whose | |
7294 | value is the directory to change to. | |
7295 | .TP 8 | |
7296 | .B cdspell | |
7297 | If set, minor errors in the spelling of a directory component in a | |
7298 | .B cd | |
7299 | command will be corrected. | |
7300 | The errors checked for are transposed characters, | |
7301 | a missing character, and one character too many. | |
7302 | If a correction is found, the corrected file name is printed, | |
7303 | and the command proceeds. | |
d166f048 | 7304 | This option is only used by interactive shells. |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7305 | .TP 8 |
7306 | .B checkhash | |
7307 | If set, \fBbash\fP checks that a command found in the hash | |
7308 | table exists before trying to execute it. If a hashed command no | |
7309 | longer exists, a normal path search is performed. | |
7310 | .TP 8 | |
7311 | .B checkwinsize | |
7312 | If set, \fBbash\fP checks the window size after each command | |
7313 | and, if necessary, updates the values of | |
7314 | .SM | |
7315 | .B LINES | |
7316 | and | |
7317 | .SM | |
7318 | .BR COLUMNS . | |
7319 | .TP 8 | |
7320 | .B cmdhist | |
7321 | If set, | |
7322 | .B bash | |
7323 | attempts to save all lines of a multiple-line | |
7324 | command in the same history entry. This allows | |
7325 | easy re-editing of multi-line commands. | |
7326 | .TP 8 | |
7327 | .B dotglob | |
7328 | If set, | |
7329 | .B bash | |
7330 | includes filenames beginning with a `.' in the results of pathname | |
7331 | expansion. | |
7332 | .TP 8 | |
7333 | .B execfail | |
7334 | If set, a non-interactive shell will not exit if | |
7335 | it cannot execute the file specified as an argument to the | |
7336 | .B exec | |
7337 | builtin command. An interactive shell does not exit if | |
7338 | .B exec | |
7339 | fails. | |
7340 | .TP 8 | |
7341 | .B expand_aliases | |
7342 | If set, aliases are expanded as described above under | |
7343 | .SM | |
7344 | .BR ALIASES . | |
7345 | This option is enabled by default for interactive shells. | |
7346 | .TP 8 | |
cce855bc JA |
7347 | .B extglob |
7348 | If set, the extended pattern matching features described above under | |
7349 | \fBPathname Expansion\fP are enabled. | |
7350 | .TP 8 | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7351 | .B histappend |
7352 | If set, the history list is appended to the file named by the value | |
7353 | of the | |
7354 | .B HISTFILE | |
7355 | variable when the shell exits, rather than overwriting the file. | |
7356 | .TP 8 | |
7357 | .B histreedit | |
7358 | If set, and | |
7359 | .B readline | |
7360 | is being used, a user is given the opportunity to re-edit a | |
7361 | failed history substitution. | |
7362 | .TP 8 | |
7363 | .B histverify | |
7364 | If set, and | |
7365 | .B readline | |
7366 | is being used, the results of history substitution are not immediately | |
7367 | passed to the shell parser. Instead, the resulting line is loaded into | |
7368 | the \fBreadline\fP editing buffer, allowing further modification. | |
7369 | .TP 8 | |
7370 | .B hostcomplete | |
7371 | If set, and | |
7372 | .B readline | |
cce855bc JA |
7373 | is being used, \fBbash\fP will attempt to perform hostname completion when a |
7374 | word containing a \fB@\fP is being completed (see | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7375 | .B Completing |
7376 | under | |
7377 | .SM | |
7378 | .B READLINE | |
7379 | above). | |
7380 | This is enabled by default. | |
7381 | .TP 8 | |
cce855bc JA |
7382 | .B huponexit |
7383 | If set, \fBbash\fP will send | |
7384 | .SM | |
7385 | .B SIGHUP | |
7386 | to all jobs when an interactive login shell exits. | |
7387 | .TP 8 | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7388 | .B interactive_comments |
7389 | If set, allow a word beginning with | |
7390 | .B # | |
7391 | to cause that word and all remaining characters on that | |
7392 | line to be ignored in an interactive shell (see | |
7393 | .SM | |
7394 | .B COMMENTS | |
7395 | above). This option is enabled by default. | |
7396 | .TP 8 | |
7397 | .B lithist | |
7398 | If set, and the | |
7399 | .B cmdhist | |
7400 | option is enabled, multi-line commands are saved to the history with | |
7401 | embedded newlines rather than using semicolon separators where possible. | |
7402 | .TP 8 | |
7403 | .B mailwarn | |
7404 | If set, and a file that \fBbash\fP is checking for mail has been | |
7405 | accessed since the last time it was checked, the message ``The mail in | |
7406 | \fImailfile\fP has been read'' is displayed. | |
7407 | .TP 8 | |
bb70624e JA |
7408 | .B no_empty_cmd_completion |
7409 | If set, and | |
7410 | .B readline | |
7411 | is being used, | |
7412 | .B bash | |
7413 | will not attempt to search the \fBPATH\fP for possible completions when | |
7414 | completion is attempted on an empty line. | |
7415 | .TP 8 | |
cce855bc JA |
7416 | .B nocaseglob |
7417 | If set, | |
7418 | .B bash | |
7419 | matches filenames in a case\-insensitive fashion when performing pathname | |
7420 | expansion (see | |
7421 | .B Pathname Expansion | |
7422 | above). | |
7423 | .TP 8 | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7424 | .B nullglob |
7425 | If set, | |
7426 | .B bash | |
7427 | allows patterns which match no | |
7428 | files (see | |
7429 | .B Pathname Expansion | |
7430 | above) | |
7431 | to expand to a null string, rather than themselves. | |
7432 | .TP 8 | |
bb70624e JA |
7433 | .B progcomp |
7434 | If set, the programmable completion facilities (see | |
7435 | \fBProgrammable Completion\fP above) are enabled. | |
7436 | This option is enabled by default. | |
7437 | .TP 8 | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7438 | .B promptvars |
7439 | If set, prompt strings undergo variable and parameter expansion after | |
7440 | being expanded as described in | |
7441 | .SM | |
7442 | .B PROMPTING | |
7443 | above. This option is enabled by default. | |
7444 | .TP 8 | |
b72432fd JA |
7445 | .B restricted_shell |
7446 | The shell sets this option if it is started in restricted mode (see | |
7447 | .SM | |
7448 | .B "RESTRICTED SHELL" | |
7449 | below). | |
7450 | The value may not be changed. | |
7451 | This is not reset when the startup files are executed, allowing | |
7452 | the startup files to discover whether or not a shell is restricted. | |
7453 | .TP 8 | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7454 | .B shift_verbose |
7455 | If set, the | |
7456 | .B shift | |
7457 | builtin prints an error message when the shift count exceeds the | |
7458 | number of positional parameters. | |
7459 | .TP 8 | |
7460 | .B sourcepath | |
7461 | If set, the | |
7462 | \fBsource\fP (\fB.\fP) builtin uses the value of | |
7463 | .SM | |
7464 | .B PATH | |
7465 | to find the directory containing the file supplied as an argument. | |
cce855bc | 7466 | This option is enabled by default. |
bb70624e JA |
7467 | .TP 8 |
7468 | .B xpg_echo | |
7469 | If set, the \fBecho\fP builtin expands backslash-escape sequences | |
7470 | by default. | |
ccc6cda3 | 7471 | .RE |
726f6388 JA |
7472 | .TP |
7473 | \fBsuspend\fP [\fB\-f\fP] | |
7474 | Suspend the execution of this shell until it receives a | |
7475 | .SM | |
7476 | .B SIGCONT | |
7477 | signal. The | |
7478 | .B \-f | |
7479 | option says not to complain if this is | |
7480 | a login shell; just suspend anyway. The return status is 0 unless | |
7481 | the shell is a login shell and | |
7482 | .B \-f | |
7483 | is not supplied, or if job control is not enabled. | |
7484 | .TP | |
7485 | .PD 0 | |
7486 | \fBtest\fP \fIexpr\fP | |
7487 | .TP | |
7488 | \fB[\fP \fIexpr\fP \fB]\fP | |
ccc6cda3 | 7489 | Return a status of 0 or 1 depending on |
726f6388 JA |
7490 | the evaluation of the conditional expression |
7491 | .IR expr . | |
cce855bc JA |
7492 | Each operator and operand must be a separate argument. |
7493 | Expressions are composed of the primaries described above under | |
7494 | .SM | |
7495 | .BR "CONDITIONAL EXPRESSIONS" . | |
7496 | .if t .sp 0.5 | |
7497 | .if n .sp 1 | |
7498 | Expressions may be combined using the following operators, listed | |
7499 | in decreasing order of precedence. | |
726f6388 JA |
7500 | .RS |
7501 | .PD 0 | |
7502 | .TP | |
726f6388 JA |
7503 | .B ! \fIexpr\fP |
7504 | True if | |
7505 | .I expr | |
7506 | is false. | |
7507 | .TP | |
cce855bc JA |
7508 | .B ( \fIexpr\fP ) |
7509 | Returns the value of \fIexpr\fP. | |
7510 | This may be used to override the normal precedence of operators. | |
7511 | .TP | |
726f6388 JA |
7512 | \fIexpr1\fP \-\fBa\fP \fIexpr2\fP |
7513 | True if both | |
7514 | .I expr1 | |
cce855bc | 7515 | and |
726f6388 JA |
7516 | .I expr2 |
7517 | are true. | |
7518 | .TP | |
7519 | \fIexpr1\fP \-\fBo\fP \fIexpr2\fP | |
7520 | True if either | |
7521 | .I expr1 | |
cce855bc | 7522 | or |
726f6388 JA |
7523 | .I expr2 |
7524 | is true. | |
cce855bc JA |
7525 | .PD |
7526 | .PP | |
7527 | \fBtest\fP and \fB[\fP evaluate conditional | |
7528 | expressions using a set of rules based on the number of arguments. | |
7529 | .if t .sp 0.5 | |
7530 | .if n .sp 1 | |
7531 | .PD 0 | |
726f6388 | 7532 | .TP |
cce855bc JA |
7533 | 0 arguments |
7534 | The expression is false. | |
7535 | .TP | |
7536 | 1 argument | |
7537 | The expression is true if and only if the argument is not null. | |
7538 | .TP | |
7539 | 2 arguments | |
7540 | If the first argument is \fB!\fP, the expression is true if and | |
7541 | only if the second argument is null. | |
7542 | If the first argument is one of the unary conditional operators listed above | |
7543 | under | |
726f6388 | 7544 | .SM |
cce855bc JA |
7545 | .BR "CONDITIONAL EXPRESSIONS" , |
7546 | the expression is true if the unary test is true. | |
7547 | If the first argument is not a valid unary conditional operator, the expression | |
7548 | is false. | |
7549 | .TP | |
7550 | 3 arguments | |
7551 | If the second argument is one of the binary conditional operators listed above | |
7552 | under | |
7553 | .SM | |
7554 | .BR "CONDITIONAL EXPRESSIONS" , | |
7555 | the result of the expression is the result of the binary test using | |
7556 | the first and third arguments as operands. | |
7557 | If the first argument is \fB!\fP, the value is the negation of | |
7558 | the two-argument test using the second and third arguments. | |
7559 | If the first argument is exactly \fB(\fP and the third argument is | |
7560 | exactly \fB)\fP, the result is the one-argument test of the second | |
7561 | argument. | |
7562 | Otherwise, the expression is false. | |
7563 | The \fB\-a\fP and \fB\-o\fP operators are considered binary operators | |
7564 | in this case. | |
7565 | .TP | |
7566 | 4 arguments | |
7567 | If the first argument is \fB!\fP, the result is the negation of | |
7568 | the three-argument expression composed of the remaining arguments. | |
7569 | Otherwise, the expression is parsed and evaluated according to | |
7570 | precedence using the rules listed above. | |
7571 | .TP | |
7572 | 5 or more arguments | |
7573 | The expression is parsed and evaluated according to precedence | |
7574 | using the rules listed above. | |
726f6388 | 7575 | .RE |
cce855bc | 7576 | .PD |
726f6388 JA |
7577 | .TP |
7578 | .B times | |
7579 | Print the accumulated user and system times for the shell and | |
7580 | for processes run from the shell. The return status is 0. | |
7581 | .TP | |
d166f048 | 7582 | \fBtrap\fP [\fB\-lp\fP] [\fIarg\fP] [\fIsigspec\fP ...] |
726f6388 JA |
7583 | The command |
7584 | .I arg | |
7585 | is to be read and executed when the shell receives | |
7586 | signal(s) | |
7587 | .IR sigspec . | |
7588 | If | |
7589 | .I arg | |
7590 | is absent or | |
7591 | .BR \- , | |
7592 | all specified signals are | |
7593 | reset to their original values (the values they had | |
d166f048 JA |
7594 | upon entrance to the shell). |
7595 | If | |
726f6388 | 7596 | .I arg |
d166f048 JA |
7597 | is the null string the signal specified by each |
7598 | .I sigspec | |
7599 | is ignored by the shell and by the commands it invokes. | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7600 | If |
7601 | .I arg | |
bb70624e | 7602 | is not present and |
ccc6cda3 | 7603 | .B \-p |
bb70624e | 7604 | has been supplied, then the trap commands associated with each |
ccc6cda3 | 7605 | .I sigspec |
bb70624e JA |
7606 | are displayed. |
7607 | If no arguments are supplied or if only | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7608 | .B \-p |
7609 | is given, | |
7610 | .B trap | |
7611 | prints the list of commands associated with each signal number. | |
d166f048 | 7612 | Each |
726f6388 JA |
7613 | .I sigspec |
7614 | is either | |
d166f048 JA |
7615 | a signal name defined in <\fIsignal.h\fP>, or a signal number. |
7616 | If a | |
726f6388 JA |
7617 | .I sigspec |
7618 | is | |
7619 | .SM | |
7620 | .B EXIT | |
7621 | (0) the command | |
7622 | .I arg | |
d166f048 | 7623 | is executed on exit from the shell. If a |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7624 | .I sigspec |
7625 | is | |
7626 | .SM | |
7627 | .BR DEBUG , | |
7628 | the command | |
7629 | .I arg | |
7630 | is executed after every \fIsimple command\fP (see | |
7631 | .SM | |
7632 | .B SHELL GRAMMAR | |
7633 | above). | |
7634 | The | |
726f6388 | 7635 | .B \-l |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7636 | option causes the shell to print a list of signal names and |
7637 | their corresponding numbers. | |
726f6388 JA |
7638 | Signals ignored upon entry to the shell cannot be trapped or reset. |
7639 | Trapped signals are reset to their original values in a child | |
d166f048 JA |
7640 | process when it is created. |
7641 | The return status is false if any | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7642 | .I sigspec |
7643 | is invalid; otherwise | |
726f6388 JA |
7644 | .B trap |
7645 | returns true. | |
7646 | .TP | |
cce855bc | 7647 | \fBtype\fP [\fB\-atp\fP] \fIname\fP [\fIname\fP ...] |
726f6388 JA |
7648 | With no options, |
7649 | indicate how each | |
7650 | .I name | |
7651 | would be interpreted if used as a command name. | |
7652 | If the | |
cce855bc JA |
7653 | .B \-t |
7654 | option is used, | |
726f6388 | 7655 | .B type |
ccc6cda3 | 7656 | prints a string which is one of |
726f6388 JA |
7657 | .IR alias , |
7658 | .IR keyword , | |
7659 | .IR function , | |
7660 | .IR builtin , | |
7661 | or | |
7662 | .I file | |
7663 | if | |
7664 | .I name | |
7665 | is an alias, shell reserved word, function, builtin, or disk file, | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7666 | respectively. |
7667 | If the | |
7668 | .I name | |
7669 | is not found, then nothing is printed, and an exit status of false | |
7670 | is returned. | |
726f6388 | 7671 | If the |
cce855bc JA |
7672 | .B \-p |
7673 | option is used, | |
726f6388 JA |
7674 | .B type |
7675 | either returns the name of the disk file | |
7676 | that would be executed if | |
7677 | .I name | |
7678 | were specified as a command name, | |
28ef6c31 JA |
7679 | or nothing if |
7680 | .if t \f(CWtype -t name\fP | |
7681 | .if n ``type -t name'' | |
726f6388 JA |
7682 | would not return |
7683 | .IR file . | |
7684 | If a command is hashed, | |
cce855bc | 7685 | .B \-p |
726f6388 JA |
7686 | prints the hashed value, not necessarily the file that appears |
7687 | first in | |
7688 | .SM | |
7689 | .BR PATH . | |
7690 | If the | |
cce855bc JA |
7691 | .B \-a |
7692 | option is used, | |
726f6388 JA |
7693 | .B type |
7694 | prints all of the places that contain | |
7695 | an executable named | |
7696 | .IR name . | |
7697 | This includes aliases and functions, | |
7698 | if and only if the | |
cce855bc JA |
7699 | .B \-p |
7700 | option is not also used. | |
726f6388 JA |
7701 | The table of hashed commands is not consulted |
7702 | when using | |
cce855bc | 7703 | .BR \-a . |
726f6388 JA |
7704 | .B type |
7705 | returns true if any of the arguments are found, false if | |
7706 | none are found. | |
7707 | .TP | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7708 | \fBulimit\fP [\fB\-SHacdflmnpstuv\fP [\fIlimit\fP]] |
7709 | Provides control over the resources available to the shell and to | |
726f6388 JA |
7710 | processes started by it, on systems that allow such control. The |
7711 | value of | |
7712 | .I limit | |
7713 | can be a number in the unit specified for the resource, or the | |
7714 | value | |
7715 | .BR unlimited . | |
ccc6cda3 | 7716 | The \fB\-H\fP and \fB\-S\fP options specify that the hard or soft limit is |
726f6388 JA |
7717 | set for the given resource. A hard limit cannot be increased once it |
7718 | is set; a soft limit may be increased up to the value of the hard limit. | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7719 | If neither \fB\-H\fP nor \fB\-S\fP is specified, both the soft and hard |
7720 | limits are set. | |
7721 | If | |
726f6388 JA |
7722 | .I limit |
7723 | is omitted, the current value of the soft limit of the resource is | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7724 | printed, unless the \fB\-H\fP option is given. When more than one |
7725 | resource is specified, the limit name and unit are printed before the value. | |
726f6388 JA |
7726 | Other options are interpreted as follows: |
7727 | .RS | |
7728 | .PD 0 | |
7729 | .TP | |
7730 | .B \-a | |
ccc6cda3 | 7731 | All current limits are reported |
726f6388 JA |
7732 | .TP |
7733 | .B \-c | |
ccc6cda3 | 7734 | The maximum size of core files created |
726f6388 JA |
7735 | .TP |
7736 | .B \-d | |
ccc6cda3 | 7737 | The maximum size of a process's data segment |
726f6388 JA |
7738 | .TP |
7739 | .B \-f | |
ccc6cda3 | 7740 | The maximum size of files created by the shell |
726f6388 | 7741 | .TP |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7742 | .B \-l |
7743 | The maximum size that may be locked into memory | |
726f6388 | 7744 | .TP |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7745 | .B \-m |
7746 | The maximum resident set size | |
726f6388 | 7747 | .TP |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7748 | .B \-n |
7749 | The maximum number of open file descriptors (most systems do not | |
7750 | allow this value to be set) | |
726f6388 JA |
7751 | .TP |
7752 | .B \-p | |
ccc6cda3 | 7753 | The pipe size in 512-byte blocks (this may not be set) |
726f6388 | 7754 | .TP |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7755 | .B \-s |
7756 | The maximum stack size | |
7757 | .TP | |
7758 | .B \-t | |
7759 | The maximum amount of cpu time in seconds | |
726f6388 JA |
7760 | .TP |
7761 | .B \-u | |
ccc6cda3 | 7762 | The maximum number of processes available to a single user |
726f6388 JA |
7763 | .TP |
7764 | .B \-v | |
7765 | The maximum amount of virtual memory available to the shell | |
7766 | .PD | |
7767 | .PP | |
ccc6cda3 | 7768 | If |
726f6388 JA |
7769 | .I limit |
7770 | is given, it is the new value of the specified resource (the | |
7771 | .B \-a | |
7772 | option is display only). | |
7773 | If no option is given, then | |
7774 | .B \-f | |
7775 | is assumed. Values are in 1024-byte increments, except for | |
7776 | .BR \-t , | |
7777 | which is in seconds, | |
7778 | .BR \-p , | |
7779 | which is in units of 512-byte blocks, | |
7780 | and | |
7781 | .B \-n | |
7782 | and | |
7783 | .BR \-u , | |
7784 | which are unscaled values. The return status is 0 | |
cce855bc | 7785 | unless an invalid option is encountered, a non-numeric argument |
726f6388 JA |
7786 | other than \fBunlimited\fP is supplied as \fIlimit\fP, or an |
7787 | error occurs while setting a new limit. | |
7788 | .RE | |
7789 | .TP | |
cce855bc | 7790 | \fBumask\fP [\fB\-p\fP] [\fB\-S\fP] [\fImode\fP] |
726f6388 JA |
7791 | The user file-creation mask is set to |
7792 | .IR mode . | |
7793 | If | |
7794 | .I mode | |
7795 | begins with a digit, it | |
7796 | is interpreted as an octal number; otherwise | |
7797 | it is interpreted as a symbolic mode mask similar | |
7798 | to that accepted by | |
7799 | .IR chmod (1). | |
7800 | If | |
7801 | .I mode | |
bb70624e | 7802 | is omitted, the current value of the mask is printed. |
ccc6cda3 | 7803 | The |
726f6388 JA |
7804 | .B \-S |
7805 | option causes the mask to be printed in symbolic form; the | |
7806 | default output is an octal number. | |
cce855bc JA |
7807 | If the |
7808 | .B \-p | |
7809 | option is supplied, and | |
7810 | .I mode | |
7811 | is omitted, the output is in a form that may be reused as input. | |
ccc6cda3 | 7812 | The return status is 0 if the mode was successfully changed or if |
726f6388 JA |
7813 | no \fImode\fP argument was supplied, and false otherwise. |
7814 | .TP | |
7815 | \fBunalias\fP [\-\fBa\fP] [\fIname\fP ...] | |
bb70624e | 7816 | Remove each \fIname\fP from the list of defined aliases. If |
726f6388 JA |
7817 | .B \-a |
7818 | is supplied, all alias definitions are removed. The return | |
7819 | value is true unless a supplied | |
7820 | .I name | |
7821 | is not a defined alias. | |
7822 | .TP | |
7823 | \fBunset\fP [\-\fBfv\fP] [\fIname\fP ...] | |
7824 | For each | |
7825 | .IR name , | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7826 | remove the corresponding variable or function. |
7827 | If no options are supplied, or the | |
7828 | .B \-v | |
7829 | option is given, each | |
7830 | .I name | |
7831 | refers to a shell variable. | |
7832 | Read-only variables may not be unset. | |
7833 | If | |
726f6388 | 7834 | .B \-f |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7835 | is specifed, |
7836 | each | |
7837 | .I name | |
7838 | refers to a shell function, and the function definition | |
7839 | is removed. | |
7840 | Each unset variable or function is removed from the environment | |
7841 | passed to subsequent commands. | |
7842 | If any of | |
726f6388 JA |
7843 | .SM |
7844 | .BR RANDOM , | |
7845 | .SM | |
7846 | .BR SECONDS , | |
7847 | .SM | |
7848 | .BR LINENO , | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7849 | .SM |
7850 | .BR HISTCMD , | |
bb70624e JA |
7851 | .SM |
7852 | .BR FUNCNAME , | |
7853 | .SM | |
7854 | .BR GROUPS , | |
726f6388 JA |
7855 | or |
7856 | .SM | |
ccc6cda3 | 7857 | .B DIRSTACK |
726f6388 JA |
7858 | are unset, they lose their special properties, even if they are |
7859 | subsequently reset. The exit status is true unless a | |
7860 | .I name | |
ccc6cda3 | 7861 | does not exist or is readonly. |
726f6388 JA |
7862 | .TP |
7863 | \fBwait\fP [\fIn\fP] | |
7864 | Wait for the specified process and return its termination | |
7865 | status. | |
7866 | .I n | |
7867 | may be a process | |
7868 | ID or a job specification; if a job spec is given, all processes | |
7869 | in that job's pipeline are waited for. If | |
7870 | .I n | |
7871 | is not given, all currently active child processes | |
7872 | are waited for, and the return status is zero. If | |
7873 | .I n | |
ccc6cda3 | 7874 | specifies a non-existent process or job, the return status is |
726f6388 JA |
7875 | 127. Otherwise, the return status is the exit status of the last |
7876 | process or job waited for. | |
7877 | .\" bash_builtins | |
7878 | .if \n(zZ=1 .ig zZ | |
ccc6cda3 | 7879 | .SH "RESTRICTED SHELL" |
bb70624e JA |
7880 | .\" rbash.1 |
7881 | .zY | |
726f6388 | 7882 | .PP |
ccc6cda3 | 7883 | If |
726f6388 | 7884 | .B bash |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7885 | is started with the name |
7886 | .BR rbash , | |
7887 | or the | |
7888 | .B \-r | |
7889 | option is supplied at invocation, | |
7890 | the shell becomes restricted. | |
7891 | A restricted shell is used to | |
7892 | set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. | |
7893 | It behaves identically to | |
7894 | .B bash | |
cce855bc | 7895 | with the exception that the following are disallowed or not performed: |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7896 | .IP \(bu |
7897 | changing directories with \fBcd\fP | |
7898 | .IP \(bu | |
7899 | setting or unsetting the values of | |
b72432fd JA |
7900 | .BR SHELL , |
7901 | .BR PATH , | |
7902 | .BR ENV , | |
ccc6cda3 | 7903 | or |
b72432fd | 7904 | .B BASH_ENV |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7905 | .IP \(bu |
7906 | specifying command names containing | |
7907 | .B / | |
7908 | .IP \(bu | |
7909 | specifying a file name containing a | |
7910 | .B / | |
7911 | as an argument to the | |
7912 | .B . | |
7913 | builtin command | |
7914 | .IP \(bu | |
bb70624e JA |
7915 | Specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the |
7916 | .B \-p | |
7917 | option to the | |
7918 | .B hash | |
7919 | builtin command | |
7920 | .IP \(bu | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7921 | importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup |
7922 | .IP \(bu | |
cce855bc JA |
7923 | parsing the value of \fBSHELLOPTS\fP from the shell environment at startup |
7924 | .IP \(bu | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7925 | redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators |
7926 | .IP \(bu | |
7927 | using the | |
7928 | .B exec | |
7929 | builtin command to replace the shell with another command | |
7930 | .IP \(bu | |
7931 | adding or deleting builtin commands with the | |
7932 | .B \-f | |
726f6388 | 7933 | and |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7934 | .B \-d |
7935 | options to the | |
7936 | .B enable | |
7937 | builtin command | |
7938 | .IP \(bu | |
7939 | specifying the | |
7940 | .B \-p | |
7941 | option to the | |
7942 | .B command | |
7943 | builtin command | |
7944 | .IP \(bu | |
7945 | turning off restricted mode with | |
cce855bc | 7946 | \fBset +r\fP or \fBset +o restricted\fP. |
726f6388 | 7947 | .PP |
ccc6cda3 JA |
7948 | These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. |
7949 | .PP | |
7950 | When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed (see | |
7951 | .SM | |
7952 | .B "COMMAND EXECUTION" | |
7953 | above), | |
7954 | .B rbash | |
7955 | turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the | |
7956 | script. | |
bb70624e JA |
7957 | .\" end of rbash.1 |
7958 | .if \n(zY=1 .ig zY | |
726f6388 JA |
7959 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
7960 | .PD 0 | |
7961 | .TP | |
bb70624e | 7962 | \fIBash Reference Manual\fP, Brian Fox and Chet Ramey |
726f6388 JA |
7963 | .TP |
7964 | \fIThe Gnu Readline Library\fP, Brian Fox and Chet Ramey | |
7965 | .TP | |
7966 | \fIThe Gnu History Library\fP, Brian Fox and Chet Ramey | |
7967 | .TP | |
726f6388 JA |
7968 | \fIPortable Operating System Interface (POSIX) Part 2: Shell and Utilities\fP, IEEE |
7969 | .TP | |
7970 | \fIsh\fP(1), \fIksh\fP(1), \fIcsh\fP(1) | |
7971 | .TP | |
7972 | \fIemacs\fP(1), \fIvi\fP(1) | |
7973 | .TP | |
7974 | \fIreadline\fP(3) | |
7975 | .PD | |
7976 | .SH FILES | |
7977 | .PD 0 | |
7978 | .TP | |
7979 | .FN /bin/bash | |
7980 | The \fBbash\fP executable | |
7981 | .TP | |
7982 | .FN /etc/profile | |
7983 | The systemwide initialization file, executed for login shells | |
7984 | .TP | |
7985 | .FN ~/.bash_profile | |
7986 | The personal initialization file, executed for login shells | |
7987 | .TP | |
7988 | .FN ~/.bashrc | |
7989 | The individual per-interactive-shell startup file | |
7990 | .TP | |
b72432fd JA |
7991 | .FN ~/.bash_logout |
7992 | The individual login shell cleanup file, executed when a login shell exits | |
7993 | .TP | |
726f6388 JA |
7994 | .FN ~/.inputrc |
7995 | Individual \fIreadline\fP initialization file | |
7996 | .PD | |
7997 | .SH AUTHORS | |
ccc6cda3 | 7998 | Brian Fox, Free Software Foundation |
726f6388 | 7999 | .br |
bb70624e | 8000 | bfox@gnu.org |
726f6388 JA |
8001 | .PP |
8002 | Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University | |
8003 | .br | |
8004 | chet@ins.CWRU.Edu | |
8005 | .SH BUG REPORTS | |
8006 | If you find a bug in | |
8007 | .B bash, | |
8008 | you should report it. But first, you should | |
8009 | make sure that it really is a bug, and that it appears in the latest | |
8010 | version of | |
8011 | .B bash | |
8012 | that you have. | |
8013 | .PP | |
8014 | Once you have determined that a bug actually exists, use the | |
8015 | .I bashbug | |
8016 | command to submit a bug report. | |
d166f048 | 8017 | If you have a fix, you are encouraged to mail that as well! |
726f6388 | 8018 | Suggestions and `philosophical' bug reports may be mailed |
cce855bc | 8019 | to \fIbug-bash@gnu.org\fP or posted to the Usenet |
726f6388 JA |
8020 | newsgroup |
8021 | .BR gnu.bash.bug . | |
8022 | .PP | |
8023 | ALL bug reports should include: | |
8024 | .PP | |
8025 | .PD 0 | |
8026 | .TP 20 | |
8027 | The version number of \fBbash\fR | |
8028 | .TP | |
8029 | The hardware and operating system | |
8030 | .TP | |
8031 | The compiler used to compile | |
8032 | .TP | |
8033 | A description of the bug behaviour | |
8034 | .TP | |
8035 | A short script or `recipe' which exercises the bug | |
8036 | .PD | |
8037 | .PP | |
8038 | .I bashbug | |
8039 | inserts the first three items automatically into the template | |
8040 | it provides for filing a bug report. | |
8041 | .PP | |
8042 | Comments and bug reports concerning | |
8043 | this manual page should be directed to | |
8044 | .IR chet@ins.CWRU.Edu . | |
8045 | .SH BUGS | |
8046 | .PP | |
8047 | It's too big and too slow. | |
8048 | .PP | |
8049 | There are some subtle differences between | |
8050 | .B bash | |
8051 | and traditional versions of | |
8052 | .BR sh , | |
8053 | mostly because of the | |
8054 | .SM | |
8055 | .B POSIX | |
8056 | specification. | |
8057 | .PP | |
8058 | Aliases are confusing in some uses. | |
ccc6cda3 JA |
8059 | .PP |
8060 | Shell builtin commands and functions are not stoppable/restartable. | |
8061 | .PP | |
8062 | Compound commands and command sequences of the form `a ; b ; c' | |
8063 | are not handled gracefully when process suspension is attempted. | |
8064 | When a process is stopped, the shell immediately executes the next | |
8065 | command in the sequence. | |
8066 | It suffices to place the sequence of commands between | |
8067 | parentheses to force it into a subshell, which may be stopped as | |
8068 | a unit. | |
8069 | .PP | |
8070 | Commands inside of \fB$(\fP...\fB)\fP command substitution are not | |
8071 | parsed until substitution is attempted. This will delay error | |
8072 | reporting until some time after the command is entered. | |
8073 | .PP | |
8074 | Array variables may not (yet) be exported. | |
726f6388 | 8075 | .zZ |
bb70624e | 8076 | .zY |