bring documentation of command up to date wrt. POSIX and whence wrt. command
(inspired from a bugreport by Martijn Dekker who noted this is currently broken)
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| .\" $MirOS: src/bin/mksh/mksh.1,v 1.389 2016/02/11 19:00:50 tg Exp $ | ||||
| .\" $MirOS: src/bin/mksh/mksh.1,v 1.390 2016/02/26 19:38:42 tg Exp $ | ||||
| .\" $OpenBSD: ksh.1,v 1.160 2015/07/04 13:27:04 feinerer Exp $ | ||||
| .\"- | ||||
| .\" Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, | ||||
| @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ | ||||
| .\" with -mandoc, it might implement .Mx itself, but we want to | ||||
| .\" use our own definition. And .Dd must come *first*, always. | ||||
| .\" | ||||
| .Dd $Mdocdate: February 11 2016 $ | ||||
| .Dd $Mdocdate: February 26 2016 $ | ||||
| .\" | ||||
| .\" Check which macro package we use, and do other -mdoc setup. | ||||
| .\" | ||||
| @@ -5141,38 +5141,20 @@ If job monitoring is enabled, the completion status of jobs is printed | ||||
| .Op Fl pv | ||||
| .Op Ar name ... | ||||
| .Xc | ||||
| For each | ||||
| .Ar name , | ||||
| the type of command is listed (reserved word, built-in, alias, | ||||
| function, tracked alias, or executable). | ||||
| If the | ||||
| .Fl p | ||||
| option is used, a path search is performed even if | ||||
| .Ar name | ||||
| is a reserved word, alias, etc. | ||||
| Without the | ||||
| .Fl v | ||||
| option, | ||||
| .Ic whence | ||||
| is similar to | ||||
| .Ic command Fl v | ||||
| except that | ||||
| .Ic whence | ||||
| will find reserved words and won't print aliases as alias commands. | ||||
| option, it is the same as | ||||
| .Ic command Fl v , | ||||
| except aliases are not printed as alias command. | ||||
| With the | ||||
| .Fl v | ||||
| option, | ||||
| .Ic whence | ||||
| is the same as | ||||
| option, it is exactly the same as | ||||
| .Ic command Fl V . | ||||
| Note that for | ||||
| .Ic whence , | ||||
| the | ||||
| In either case, the | ||||
| .Fl p | ||||
| option does not affect the search path used, as it does for | ||||
| .Ic command . | ||||
| If the type of one or more of the names could not be determined, the exit | ||||
| status is non-zero. | ||||
| option differs: the search path is not affected in | ||||
| .Ic whence , | ||||
| but the search is restricted to the path. | ||||
| .El | ||||
| .Ss Job control | ||||
| Job control refers to the shell's ability to monitor and control jobs which | ||||
| @@ -6609,7 +6591,7 @@ and historic practice of several shells which several scripts | ||||
| (admittedly wrongly) depend on. | ||||
| .Pp | ||||
| This document attempts to describe | ||||
| .Nm mksh\ R52b | ||||
| .Nm mksh\ R52b+CVS | ||||
| and up, | ||||
| .\" with vendor patches from insert-your-name-here, | ||||
| compiled without any options impacting functionality, such as | ||||
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