Wishlist¶

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Token Recognition and Shell Grammar¶

a more human-readable version of the following topics:

• http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_03
• http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_10

General¶

A simplified version of man bash and interesting bash tricks.:-)

The whole site is meant to be like that: a simplified or better human-readable collection of manpage snipplets. Maybe a page with the main topics of bash manpage that link to the proper articles would be good (I just don't have enough articles heh) - a kind of summary page --- Jan

Some ideas¶

hmm maybe some of this stuff could make it somewhere to the wiki...:)

• an article about how to do ksh coprocess in bash
  (:V4: may be obsolete regarding Bash 4 features)
  1. single way -> process substitution
  2. 2 way name pipes
• let's write a interactive tutorial script that teaches readline/bash (like C-h t in emacs, or vimtutor or vilearn)
• programmable history: http://pastebin.bash-hackers.org/index.php?show=22

Implemented¶

Bash For Loop Multi-word lines¶

From this solution on modifying the internal Field Separator (IFS) in bash I found here:

• http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2006-08/msg00462.html

added to the for-loop-article as example, but also made some critical comments; thanks --- Jan

Getopts tutorial¶

• My school offers a UNIX programming course (C, shell, etc.). I use this site extensively to help my friends taking this course learn concepts such as I/O redirection etc. As it gets more advanced they need to do option parsing. Therefore I would like to see a "getopts illustrated" article or some such, showing the breakdown of how it parses parameters.