Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Benno Schulenberg Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: [patch] adding a missing bracket to the manual Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 13:55:06 +0200 Lines: 93 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="_----------=_14452557066572023"; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1445268737 18368 208.118.235.17 (19 Oct 2015 15:32:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu To: bug-bash@gnu.org Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=justemail.net; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:message-id :mime-version:subject:to:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=12j +x0VR7k3dOS4OygPPRaVqp+U=; b=UbXGRwCZaajwTQhuKJBmhKswH57OwbnFwHe bePsAjw6hiU5C4h15XGLVi6+vx6RTHxImuRSi9C+noe02hJ+ghTm3KVwYQZweAsc Ww42y0NwGJ3f34AmG+Tg6pY91zWzTYP6PNzHYL+IKH4HFD90n74q8l2g4o4yWqca SbVa4a1s= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:message-id:mime-version:subject:to:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=12j+x0VR7k3dOS4OygPPRaVqp+U=; b=QEc20 +DXU09sb6ifBPUKaaVFV0kzJMDUUs2Az9tve74HLDx0GyoixZm0uAl3+EDvysbTB 0+GFWB3gUnA2B02CIkUzQp7GXKmffboPJYH37S772SBiKNQtRu/HjiYoeObNNBjx qGahEhs7vdm3j99N1wjL1QG9ZcM62bjbZ7yKjc= X-Sasl-Enc: QbS3cgwxZpRAV0oygRzCFwjszlyT+jEhGGGIQ/fcXlUQ 1445255706 X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - html X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 66.111.4.28 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 11:32:16 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:11707 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --_----------=_14452557066572023 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain In the Info document of bash-4.4-beta it says: cd [-L|[-P [-e]] [-@] [DIRECTORY] which is missing a closing bracket somewhere. On the man page and in 'help cd' it says: cd [-L|[-P [-e]] [-@]] [dir] At first glance this seems to say that -@ can only be used when also -L is used. On closer reading this is of course not so, but the brackets being so wide apart makes this somewhat hard to parse. So I would suggest the following instead: cd [-L]|[-P [-e]] [-@] [dir] Of course it is somewhat silly to have "optional | optional", but this way it is much clearer to me that -@ is independent and also a bit clearer that -e only goes with -P. Attached patch makes the proposed change. (I may have patched a wrong file, though -- it's unclear to me why generated files are in the git repo.) 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