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author | Joe Rayhawk <jrayhawk@fairlystable.org> | 2025-04-30 02:07:56 -0700 |
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committer | Joe Rayhawk <jrayhawk@fairlystable.org> | 2025-04-30 02:07:56 -0700 |
commit | 26e09889646be3ea65b4a3dfeda26213e4bb6a27 (patch) | |
tree | 4f3c73a9416bf47ad7e125383d23cf42879e38d7 /Doc/Zsh/grammar.yo | |
parent | 841bce705a58b04220b1f257abcc00ae71cbdbdc (diff) | |
parent | 001cba48ce3b964cf01fb3e2af54b20eacbc9bf5 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/grammar.yo b/Doc/Zsh/grammar.yo index f8f4ada86..b80f9750c 100644 --- a/Doc/Zsh/grammar.yo +++ b/Doc/Zsh/grammar.yo @@ -100,14 +100,15 @@ More generally, a list can be seen as a set of any shell commands whatsoever, including the complex commands below; this is implied wherever the word `list' appears in later descriptions. For example, the commands in a shell function form a special sort of list. + texinode(Precommand Modifiers)(Complex Commands)(Simple Commands & Pipelines)(Shell Grammar) sect(Precommand Modifiers) cindex(precommand modifiers) cindex(modifiers, precommand) -A simple command may be preceded by a em(precommand modifier), -which will alter how the command is interpreted. These modifiers are -shell builtin commands with the exception of tt(nocorrect) which is -a reserved word. +With the exception of tt(nocorrect), which is a reserved word that +affects further parsing when it is found in command position, each +of the following builtin commands is a em(precommand modifier) which +may precede a simple command to alter how that command is interpreted. startitem() findex(-) @@ -158,8 +159,7 @@ before any parsing is done. It has no effect in non-interactive shells. ) findex(noglob) item(tt(noglob))( -Filename generation (globbing) is not performed on any of -the words. +Filename generation (globbing) is not performed on any of the words. ) enditem() texinode(Complex Commands)(Alternate Forms For Complex Commands)(Precommand Modifiers)(Shell Grammar) @@ -187,6 +187,12 @@ Expand the list of var(word)s, and set the parameter var(name) to each of them in turn, executing var(list) each time. If the `tt(in) var(word)' is omitted, use the positional parameters instead of the var(word)s. +If any var(name) has been declared as a named reference, +the corresponding var(word) is treated as the name of a +parameter and var(name) is made a reference to that. +Note that for the positional parameters, this treats the +value of each positional as parameter name rather than +creating a reference to the position. The var(term) consists of one or more newline or tt(;) which terminate the var(word)s, and are optional when the @@ -536,7 +542,7 @@ itemiz(Errors creating command or process substitutions) itemiz(Syntax errors in glob qualifiers) itemiz(File generation errors where not caught by the option tt(BAD_PATTERN)) itemiz(All bad patterns used for matching within case statements) -itemiz(File generation failures where not caused by tt(NO_MATCH) or +itemiz(File generation failures where not caused by tt(NOMATCH) or similar options) itemiz(All file generation errors where the pattern was used to create a multio) |