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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2005-06-22 19:04:07 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2005-06-22 19:04:07 +0000
commit1a463a3cbed8b7686cb6a7e4365cce6c69f3255a (patch)
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Tidy up the markup.
Approved by: re (blanket) OK'ed by: gad
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/env')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/env/env.183
1 files changed, 49 insertions, 34 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/env/env.1 b/usr.bin/env/env.1
index 3a094f4..a1696d3 100644
--- a/usr.bin/env/env.1
+++ b/usr.bin/env/env.1
@@ -83,7 +83,9 @@ Search the set of directories as specified by
.Ar altpath
to locate the specified
.Ar utility
-program, instead of using the value of the PATH environment variable.
+program, instead of using the value of the
+.Ev PATH
+environment variable.
.\" -S
.It Fl S Ar string
Split apart the given
@@ -119,8 +121,7 @@ is specified,
prints out the names and values
of the variables in the environment, with one name/value pair per line.
.\"
-.Ss Details of -S (split-string) processing
-.Pp
+.Ss Details of Fl S Ss (split-string) processing
The processing of the
.Fl S
option will split the given
@@ -133,7 +134,12 @@ specified as a separate argument on the original
command.
.Pp
Spaces and tabs may be embedded in one of those new arguments by using
-single (``\ '\ '') or double (``"'') quotes, or backslashes (``\e'').
+single
+.Pq Dq Li '
+or double
+.Pq Ql \&"
+quotes, or backslashes
+.Pq Ql \e .
Single quotes will escape all non-single quote characters, up to
the matching single quote.
Double quotes will escape all non-double quote characters, up to
@@ -167,7 +173,7 @@ sequences which represent some action to take.
The character escape sequences are in backslash notation.
The characters and their meanings are as follows:
.Pp
-.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
+.Bl -tag -width indent -offset indent -compact
.It Cm \ec
Ignore the remaining characters in the
.Ar string .
@@ -223,8 +229,11 @@ The processing of
also supports substitution of values from environment variables.
To do this, the name of the environment variable must be inside of
.Ql ${} ,
-such as: ${SOMEVAR}.
-The common shell syntax of $SOMEVAR is not supported.
+such as:
+.Li ${SOMEVAR} .
+The common shell syntax of
+.Li $SOMEVAR
+is not supported.
All values substituted will be the values of the environment variables
as they were when the
.Nm
@@ -274,19 +283,20 @@ So, if a script named
.Pa /usr/local/bin/someport
had a first line of:
.Pp
-.D1 Li "#!/usr/local/bin/php -n -q -dsafe_mode=0"
+.Dl "#!/usr/local/bin/php -n -q -dsafe_mode=0"
.Pp
then the
.Pa /usr/local/bin/php
program would have been started with the arguments of:
-.Pp
-.D1 Li "arg[0] = '/usr/local/bin/php'"
-.D1 Li "arg[1] = '-n'"
-.D1 Li "arg[2] = '-q'"
-.D1 Li "arg[3] = '-dsafe_mode=0'"
-.D1 Li "arg[4] = '/usr/local/bin/someport'"
-.Pp
-plus any arguments the user specifed when executing
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+arg[0] = '/usr/local/bin/php'
+arg[1] = '-n'
+arg[2] = '-q'
+arg[3] = '-dsafe_mode=0'
+arg[4] = '/usr/local/bin/someport'
+.Ed
+.Pp
+plus any arguments the user specified when executing
.Pa someport .
However, this processing of multiple options on the
.Ql #!
@@ -297,26 +307,27 @@ So after a change which was made for
release, that script will result in
.Pa /usr/local/bin/php
being started with the arguments of:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+arg[0] = '/usr/local/bin/php'
+arg[1] = '-n -q -dsafe_mode=0'
+arg[2] = '/usr/local/bin/someport'
+.Ed
.Pp
-.D1 Li "arg[0] = '/usr/local/bin/php'"
-.D1 Li "arg[1] = '-n -q -dsafe_mode=0'"
-.D1 Li "arg[2] = '/usr/local/bin/someport'"
-.Pp
-plus any arguments the user specifed.
+plus any arguments the user specified.
This caused a significant change in the behavior of a few scripts.
In the case of above script, to have it behave the same way under
.Fx 6.0
as it did under earlier releases, the first line should be
changed to:
.Pp
-.D1 Li "#!/usr/bin/env -S /usr/local/bin/php -n -q -dsafe_mode=0"
+.Dl "#!/usr/bin/env -S /usr/local/bin/php -n -q -dsafe_mode=0"
.Pp
The
.Nm
utility will be started with the entire line as a single
argument:
.Pp
-.D1 Li "arg[1] = '-S /usr/local/bin/php -n -q -dsafe_mode=0'"
+.Dl "arg[1] = '-S /usr/local/bin/php -n -q -dsafe_mode=0'"
.Pp
and then
.Fl S
@@ -335,7 +346,7 @@ if the name contains no
.Ql /
characters, unless the
.Fl P
-option has been specifed.
+option has been specified.
.Sh EXIT STATUS
.Ex -std
An exit status of 126 indicates that
@@ -356,9 +367,9 @@ The kernel processing of an interpreted script does not allow a script
to directly reference some other script as its own interpreter.
As a way around this, the main difference between
.Pp
-.D1 Li #!/usr/local/bin/foo
+.Dl #!/usr/local/bin/foo
and
-.D1 Li "#!/usr/bin/env /usr/local/bin/foo"
+.Dl "#!/usr/bin/env /usr/local/bin/foo"
.Pp
is that the latter works even if
.Pa /usr/local/bin/foo
@@ -370,23 +381,26 @@ is to find the correct interpreter for a script, when the interpreter
may be in different directories on different systems.
The following example will find the
.Ql perl
-interpreter by searching through the directories specifed by PATH.
+interpreter by searching through the directories specified by
+.Ev PATH .
.Pp
-.D1 Li "#!/usr/bin/env perl"
+.Dl "#!/usr/bin/env perl"
.Pp
One limitation of that example is that it assumes the user's value
-for PATH is set to a value which will find the interpreter you want
+for
+.Ev PATH
+is set to a value which will find the interpreter you want
to execute.
The
.Fl P
-option can be used to make sure a specific list of directories are
+option can be used to make sure a specific list of directories is
used in the search for
.Ar utility .
Note that the
.Fl S
option is also required for this example to work correctly.
.Pp
-.D1 Li "#!/usr/bin/env -S -P/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin perl"
+.Dl "#!/usr/bin/env -S -P/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin perl"
.Pp
The above finds
.Ql perl
@@ -394,15 +408,16 @@ only if it is in
.Pa /usr/local/bin
or
.Pa /usr/bin .
-That could be combined with the present value of PATH, to provide
-more flexibility.
+That could be combined with the present value of
+.Ev PATH ,
+to provide more flexibility.
Note that spaces are not required between the
.Fl S
and
.Fl P
options:
.Pp
-.D1 Li "#!/usr/bin/env -S-P/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:${PATH} perl"
+.Dl "#!/usr/bin/env -S-P/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:${PATH} perl"
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.Nm
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