sh(1) patch

[Alfred Perlstein]

I always find it kind of difficult to find the $foo special operators
under the manpage for sh(1) because they are not listed in a way
that allows easy search.

Would this patch be acceptable?


Index: sh.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/bin/sh/sh.1,v
retrieving revision 1.92
diff -u -r1.92 sh.1
--- sh.1	3 Jul 2004 02:03:44 -0000	1.92
+++ sh.1	30 Oct 2004 08:54:52 -0000
@@ -952,7 +952,7 @@
 The value of the parameter is listed
 next to its character.
 .Bl -hang
-.It Li *
+.It Li $*
 Expands to the positional parameters, starting from one.
 When
 the expansion occurs within a double-quoted string
@@ -965,7 +965,7 @@
 if
 .Ev IFS
 is unset.
-.It Li @
+.It Li $@
 Expands to the positional parameters, starting from one.
 When
 the expansion occurs within double-quotes, each positional
@@ -988,26 +988,26 @@
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
 "abc"   "def ghi"
 .Ed
-.It Li #
+.It Li $#
 Expands to the number of positional parameters.
-.It Li \&?
+.It Li $\&?
 Expands to the exit status of the most recent pipeline.
-.It Li -
+.It Li $-
 (hyphen) Expands to the current option flags (the single-letter
 option names concatenated into a string) as specified on
 invocation, by the set built-in command, or implicitly
 by the shell.
-.It Li $
+.It Li $$
 Expands to the process ID of the invoked shell.
 A subshell
 retains the same value of $ as its parent.
-.It Li \&!
+.It Li $\&!
 Expands to the process ID of the most recent background
 command executed from the current shell.
 For a
 pipeline, the process ID is that of the last command in the
 pipeline.
-.It Li 0
+.It Li $0
 (zero) Expands to the name of the shell or shell script.
 .El
 .Ss Word Expansions