svn commit: r40296 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq
Eitan Adler
eadler at FreeBSD.org
Fri Dec 7 13:00:56 UTC 2012
Author: eadler
Date: Fri Dec 7 13:00:56 2012
New Revision: 40296
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40296
Log:
Update question relating to why sh(1) is minimal.
PR: 174029
Submitted by: Derek Wood <ddwood at highdensity.org>
Reviewed by: jilles
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Fri Dec 7 13:00:53 2012 (r40295)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Fri Dec 7 13:00:56 2012 (r40296)
@@ -3986,13 +3986,10 @@ kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC -> i82
</question>
<answer>
- <para>Because &posix; says that there shall be such a
- shell.</para>
-
- <para>The more complicated answer: many people need to write
+ <para>Many people need to write
shell scripts which will be portable across many systems.
That is why &posix; specifies the shell and utility commands
- in great detail. Most scripts are written in Bourne shell,
+ in great detail. Most scripts are written in Bourne shell (&man.sh.1;),
and because several important programming interfaces
(&man.make.1;, &man.system.3;, &man.popen.3;, and analogues
in higher-level scripting languages like Perl and Tcl) are
@@ -4008,7 +4005,7 @@ kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC -> i82
other shells have. That is why the Ports Collection
includes more featureful shells like
<command>bash</command>, <command>scsh</command>,
- <command>tcsh</command>, and <command>zsh</command>. (You
+ &man.tcsh.1;, and <command>zsh</command>. (You
can compare for yourself the memory utilization of all these
shells by looking at the <quote>VSZ</quote> and
<quote>RSS</quote> columns in a <command>ps
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