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..
.Sh NAME
.Nm ksh ,
.Nm mksh ,
.Nm sh
.Nd MirBSD Korn/Bourne shell
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl +abCefhiklmnprsuvxX
.Op Fl T Ar /dev/ttyCn
.Op Fl +o Ar option
.Xo
.Bk -words
.Oo Oo Fl c Ar command-string
.Op Ar command-name
.Li \&| Fl s
.Li \&| Ar file Oc
.Ek
.Op Ar argument ... Oc
.Xc
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is a command interpreter intended for both interactive and shell
script use.
Its command language is a superset of the
.Xr sh C
shell language and compatible to the original Korn shell.
.Nm mirbsdksh
is derived from
.Nm pdksh ,
the public domain Korn shell.
.Ss Shell startup
The following options can be specified only on the command line:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl c Ar command-string
.Nm
will execute the command(s) contained in
.Ar command-string .
.It Fl i
Interactive mode; see below.
.It Fl l
Login shell; see below.
.It Fl s
The shell reads commands from standard input; all non-option arguments
are positional parameters.
.It Fl r
Restricted mode; see below.
.It Fl T Ar tty
Spawn
.Nm
on
.Xr tty 4
device given.
Superuser only.
.El
.Pp
In addition to the above, the options described in the
.Ic set
built-in command can also be used on the command line.
.Pp
If neither the
.Fl c
nor the
.Fl s
option is specified, the first non-option argument specifies the name
of a file the shell reads commands from.
If there are no non-option
arguments, the shell reads commands from the standard input.
The name of
the shell (i.e., the contents of
.Va $0 )
is determined as follows: if the
.Fl c
option is used and there is a non-option argument, it is used as the name;
if commands are being read from a file, the file is used as the name;
otherwise, the name the shell was called with (i.e.,
.Li argv[0] )
is used.
.Pp
A shell is
.Dq interactive
if the
.Fl i
option is used or if both standard input and standard error are attached
to a tty.
An interactive shell has job control enabled (if available), ignores the
.Dv SIGINT ,
.Dv SIGQUIT
and
.Dv SIGTERM
signals, and prints prompts before reading input (see
.Ev PS1
and
.Ev PS2
parameters).
For non-interactive shells, the
.Ic trackall
option is on by default (see the
.Ic set
command below).
.Pp
If the
.Fl T Ar ttydev
option is given, an interactive shell is spawned in the background
with the given device as controlling terminal.
The terminal devices are probed in the following order:
.Bl -enum -compact
.It
ttydev
.It
.Pa /dev/ttyC Ns ttydev
.It
.Pa /dev/tty Ns ttydev
.El
.Pp
A shell is
.Dq restricted
if the
.Fl r
option is used or if either the basename of the name the shell was invoked
with or the
.Ev SHELL
parameter match the pattern
.Dq \&*r\&*sh
(e.g.,
.Dq rsh ,
.Dq rksh ,
.Dq rpdksh ,
etc.).
The following restrictions come into effect after the shell processes any
profile and
.Ev ENV
files:
.Pp
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
The
.Ic cd
command is disabled.
.It
The
.Ev SHELL ,
.Ev ENV
and
.Ev PATH
parameters cannot be changed.
.It
Command names can't be specified with absolute or relative paths.
.It
The
.Fl p
option of the built-in command
.Ic command
can't be used.
.It
Redirections that create files can't be used (i.e.,
.Ql > ,
.Ql >| ,
.Ql >> ,
.Ql <> ) .
.El
.Pp
A shell is
.Dq privileged
if the
.Fl p
option is used or if the real user ID or group ID does not match the
effective user ID or group ID (see
.Xr getuid 2
and
.Xr getgid 2 ) .
A privileged shell does not process
.Pa $HOME/.profile
nor the
.Ev ENV
parameter (see below).
Instead, the file
.Pa /etc/suid_profile
is processed.
Clearing the privileged option causes the shell to set
its effective user ID (group ID) to its real user ID (group ID).
.Pp
If the basename of the name the shell is called with (i.e.,
.Li argv[0] )
starts with
.Ql -
or if the
.Fl l
option is used,
the shell is assumed to be a login shell and the shell reads and executes
the contents of
.Pa /etc/profile
and
.Pa $HOME/.profile
if they exist and are readable.
.Pp
If the
.Ev ENV
parameter is set when the shell starts (or, in the case of login shells,
after any profiles are processed), its value is subjected to parameter,
command, arithmetic, and tilde
.Pq Sq \&~
substitution and the resulting file
(if any) is read and executed.
If the
.Ev ENV
parameter is not set (and not
.Dv NULL )
and
.Nm pdksh
was compiled with the
.Dv DEFAULT_ENV
macro defined, the file named in that macro is included (after the above
mentioned substitutions have been performed).
.Pp
The exit status of the shell is 127 if the command file specified on the
command line could not be opened, or non-zero if a fatal syntax error
occurred during the execution of a script.
In the absence of fatal errors,
the exit status is that of the last command executed, or zero, if no
command is executed.
.Ss Command syntax
The shells begins parsing its input by breaking it into
.Em words .
Words, which are sequences of characters, are delimited by unquoted whitespace
characters (space, tab, and newline) or meta-characters
.Po
.Ql < ,
.Ql > ,
.Ql | ,
.Ql \&; ,
.Ql (
and
.Ql \&)
.Pc .
Aside from delimiting words, spaces and tabs are ignored, while newlines
usually delimit commands.
The meta-characters are used in building the following tokens:
.Ql < ,
.Ql <& ,
.Ql << ,
.Ql > ,
.Ql >& ,
.Ql >> ,
etc. are used to specify redirections (see
.Sx Input/output redirection
below);
.Ql |
is used to create pipelines;
.Ql |&
is used to create co-processes (see
.Sx Co-processes
below);
.Ql \&;
is used to separate commands;
.Ql &
is used to create asynchronous pipelines;
.Ql &&
and
.Ql ||
are used to specify conditional execution;
.Ql \&;\&;
is used in
.Ic case
statements;
.Ql \&(\&( .. \&)\&)
is used in arithmetic expressions;
and lastly,
.Ql \&( .. \&)
is used to create subshells.
.Pp
Whitespace and meta-characters can be quoted individually using a backslash
.Pq Sq \e
or in groups using double
.Pq Sq \&"
or single
.Pq Sq \&'
quotes.
Note that the following characters are also treated specially by the
shell and must be quoted if they are to represent themselves:
.Ql \e ,
.Ql \&" ,
.Ql ' ,
.Ql # ,
.Ql $ ,
.Ql ` ,
.Ql ~ ,
.Ql { ,
.Ql } ,
.Ql * ,
.Ql \&?
and
.Ql [ .
The first three of these are the above mentioned quoting characters (see
.Sx Quoting
below);
.Ql # ,
if used at the beginning of a word, introduces a comment -- everything after
the
.Ql #
up to the nearest newline is ignored;
.Ql $
is used to introduce parameter, command, and arithmetic substitutions (see
.Sx Substitution
below);
.Ql `
introduces an old-style command substitution (see
.Sx Substitution
below);
.Ql ~
begins a directory expansion (see
.Sx Tilde expansion
below);
.Ql {
and
.Ql }
delimit
.Xr csh 1
style alterations (see
.Sx Brace expansion
below);
and finally,
.Ql * ,
.Ql \&?
and
.Ql [
are used in file name generation (see
.Sx File name patterns
below).
.Pp
As words and tokens are parsed, the shell builds commands, of which there
are two basic types:
.Em simple-commands ,
typically programs that are executed, and
.Em compound-commands ,
such as
.Ic for
and
.Ic if
statements, grouping constructs, and function definitions.
.Pp
A simple-command consists of some combination of parameter assignments
(see
.Sx Parameters
below),
input/output redirections (see
.Sx Input/output redirections
below) and command words; the only restriction is that
parameter assignments come before any command words.
The command words, if any, define the command
that is to be executed and its arguments.
The command may be a shell built-in
command, a function or an external command (i.e., a separate executable file
that is located using the
.Ev PATH
parameter (see
.Sx Command execution
below)).
Note that all command constructs have an exit status: for external commands,
this is related to the status returned by
.Xr wait 2
(if the command could not be found, the exit status is 127; if it could not
be executed, the exit status is 126); the exit status of other command
constructs (built-in commands, functions, compound-commands, pipelines, lists,
etc.) are all well-defined and are described where the construct is
described.
The exit status of a command consisting only of parameter
assignments is that of the last command substitution performed during the
parameter assignment or 0 is there were no command substitutions.
.Pp
Commands can be chained together using the
.Ql |
token to form pipelines, in which the standard output of each command but the
last is piped (see
.Xr pipe 2 )
to the standard input of the following command.
The exit status of a pipeline is that of its last command.
A pipeline may be prefixed by the
.Ql \&!
reserved word, which causes the exit status of the pipeline to be logically
complemented: if the original status was 0, the complemented status will be 1;
if the original status was not 0, the complemented status will be 0.
.Pp
.Em Lists
of commands can be created by separating pipelines by any of the following
tokens:
.Ql && ,
.Ql || ,
.Ql & ,
.Ql |&
and
.Ql \&; .
The first two are for conditional execution:
.Dq Ar cmd1 No && Ar cmd2
executes
.Ar cmd2
only if the exit status of
.Ar cmd1
is zero;
.Ql ||
is the opposite --
.Ar cmd2
is executed only if the exit status of
.Ar cmd1
is non-zero.
.Ql &&
and
.Ql ||
have equal precedence which is higher than that of
.Ql & ,
.Ql |&
and
.Ql \&; ,
which also have equal precedence.
Note that the
.Ql &&
and
.Ql ||
operators are
.Qq left-associative .
For example, both of these commands will print only
.Qq bar :
.Bd -literal -offset indent
false && echo foo || echo bar
true || echo foo && echo bar
.Ed
.Pp
The
.Ql &
token causes the preceding command to be executed asynchronously; that is,
the shell starts the command but does not wait for it to complete (the shell
does keep track of the status of asynchronous commands, see
.Sx Job control
below).
When an asynchronous command is started when job control is disabled
(i.e., in most scripts), the command is started with signals
.Dv SIGINT
and
.Dv SIGQUIT
ignored and with input redirected from
.Pa /dev/null
(however, redirections specified in the asynchronous command have precedence).
The
.Ql |&
operator starts a co-process which is a special kind of asynchronous process
(see
.Sx Co-processes
below).
Note that a command must follow the
.Ql &&
and
.Ql ||
operators, while it need not follow
.Ql & ,
.Ql |&
or
.Ql \&; .
The exit status of a list is that of the last command executed, with the
exception of asynchronous lists, for which the exit status is 0.
.Pp
Compound commands are created using the following reserved words.
These words
are only recognized if they are unquoted and if they are used as the first
word of a command (i.e., they can't be preceded by parameter assignments or
redirections):
.Pp
.\" .TS
.\" center;
.\" lfB lfB lfB lfB lfB .
.\" case    else    function        then    !
.\" do      esac    if      time    [[
.\" done    fi      in      until   {
.\" elif    for     select  while   }
.\" .TE
.\"
.Ic case , do , done , elif ,
.Ic else , esac , fi , for ,
.Ic function , if , in , select ,
.Ic then , time , until , while ,
.Ic \&! , \&[\&[ , \&{ , \&}
.Pp
.Sy Note:
Some shells (but not this one) execute control structure commands in a
subshell when one or more of their file descriptors are redirected, so any
environment changes inside them may fail.
To be portable, the
.Ic exec
statement should be used instead to redirect file descriptors before the
control structure.
.Pp
In the following compound command descriptions, command lists (denoted as
.Em list )
that are followed by reserved words must end with a semicolon, a newline, or
a (syntactically correct) reserved word.
For example,
.Bd -unfilled -offset -indent
.Ic { echo foo; echo bar; }
.Ic { echo foo; echo bar<newline> }
.Ic { { echo foo; echo bar; } }
.Ed
.Pp
are all valid, but
.Bd -unfilled -offset -indent
.Ic { echo foo; echo bar }
.Ed
.Pp
is not.
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Ic \&( Ar list Ic \&)
Execute
.Ar list
in a subshell.
There is no implicit way to pass environment changes from a
subshell back to its parent.
.It Ic \&{ Ar list Ic \&}
Compound construct;
.Ar list
is executed, but not in a subshell.
Note that
.Ic \&{
and
.Ic \&}
are reserved words, not meta-characters.
.It Xo Ic case Ar word Ic in [
.Ns [ Ic \&( ] Ar pattern [
.Ns Ic \&| Ar pattern ] ... Ic \&)
.Ar list Ic \&;\&;
.Ns ] Ar ...
.Ic esac
.Xc
The
.Ic case
statement attempts to match
.Ar word
against the specified
.Ar pattern Ns s ;
the
.Ar list
associated with the first successfully matched pattern is executed.
Patterns used in
.Ic case
statements are the same as those used for file name patterns except that the
restrictions regarding
.Ql \&.
and
.Ql /
are dropped.
Note that any unquoted space before and after a pattern is
stripped; any space within a pattern must be quoted.
Both the word and the
patterns are subject to parameter, command, and arithmetic substitution, as
well as tilde substitution.
For historical reasons, open and close braces may be used instead of
.Ic in
and
.Ic esac
(e.g.,
.Ic case $foo { *) echo bar; } ) .
The exit status of a
.Ic case
statement is that of the executed
.Ar list ;
if no
.Ar list
is executed, the exit status is zero.
.It Xo Ic for Ar name No [
.Ic in Ar word ... term Ns ]
.Ic do Ar list Ic done
.Xc
For each
.Ar word
in the specified word list, the parameter
.Ar name
is set to the word and
.Ar list
is executed.
If
.Ic in
is not used to specify a word list, the positional parameters
.Po
.Va $1 , $2 ,
etc.\&
.Pc
are used instead.
For historical reasons, open and close braces may be used instead of
.Ic do
and
.Ic done
(e.g.,
.Ic for i\&; { echo $i; } ) .
The exit status of a
.Ic for
statement is the last exit status of
.Ar list ;
if
.Ar list
is never executed, the exit status is zero.
.Ar term
is either a newline or a
.Ql \&; .
.It Xo Ic if Ar list Ic then
.Ar list [ Ic elif Ar list Ic then
.Ar list ] Ar ... [ Ic else
.Ar list ] Ic fi
.Xc
If the exit status of the first
.Ar list
is zero, the second
.Ar list
is executed; otherwise, the
.Ar list
following the
.Ic elif ,
if any, is executed with similar consequences.
If all the lists following the
.Ic if
and
.Ic elif Ns s
fail (i.e., exit with non-zero status), the
.Ar list
following the
.Ic else
is executed.
The exit status of an
.Ic if
statement is that of non-conditional
.Ar list
that is executed; if no non-conditional
.Ar list
is executed, the exit status is zero.
.It Xo Ic select Ar name No [
.Ic in Ar word ... term Ns ]
.Ic do Ar list Ic done
.Xc
The
.Ic select
statement provides an automatic method of presenting the user with a menu and
selecting from it.
An enumerated list of the specified
.Ar word Ns s
is printed on standard error, followed by a prompt
.Po
.Ev PS3, normally
.Dq #?\ \&
.Pc .
A number corresponding to one of the enumerated words is then read from
standard input,
.Ar name
is set to the selected word (or unset if the selection is not valid),
.Ev REPLY
is set to what was read (leading/trailing space is stripped), and
.Ar list
is executed.
If a blank line (i.e., zero or more
.Ev IFS
characters) is entered, the menu is reprinted without executing
.Ar list .
When
.Ar list
completes, the enumerated list is printed if
.Ev REPLY
is
.Dv NULL ,
the prompt is printed and so on.
This process continues until an end-of-file
is read, an interrupt is received, or a
.Ic break
statement is executed inside the loop.
If
.Ic in Ar word ...\&
is omitted, the positional parameters are used (i.e.,
.Va $1 , $2 ,
etc.).
For historical reasons, open and close braces may be used instead of
.Ic do
and
.Ic done
(e.g.,
.Ic select i; { echo $i; } ) .
The exit status of a
.Ic select
statement is zero if a
.Ic break
statement is used to exit the loop, non-zero otherwise.
.It Xo Ic until Ar list Ic do Ar list
.Ic done
.Xc
This works like
.Ic while ,
except that the body is executed only while the exit status of the first
.Ar list
is non-zero.
.It Xo Ic while Ar list Ic do Ar list
.Ic done
.Xc
A
.Ic while
is a pre-checked loop.
Its body is executed as often as the exit status of the first
.Ar list
is zero.
The exit status of a
.Ic while
statement is the last exit status of the
.Ar list
in the body of the loop; if the body is not executed, the exit status is zero.
.It Xo Ic function Ar name Ic \&{
.Ar list Ic \&}
.Xc
Defines the function
.Ar name
(see
.Sx Functions
below).
Note that redirections specified after a function definition are
performed whenever the function is executed, not when the function definition
is executed.
.It Ar name Ic () Ar command
Mostly the same as
.Ic function
(see
.Sx Functions
below).
.It Xo Ic time Op Fl p
.Op Ar pipeline
.Xc
The
.Ic time
reserved word is described in the
.Sx Command execution
section.
.It Ic (( Ar expression Ic ))
The arithmetic expression
.Ar expression
is evaluated; equivalent to
.Ic let Ar expression
(see
.Sx Arithmetic expressions
and the
.Ic let
command below).
.It Ic [[ Ar expression Ic ]]
Similar to the
.Ic test
and
.Ic \&[ Ar ... Ic \&]
commands (described later), with the following exceptions:
.Bl -bullet -offset indent
.It
Field splitting and file name generation are not performed on arguments.
.It
The
.Fl a
.Pq Tn AND
and
.Fl o
.Pq Tn OR
operators are replaced with
.Ql &&
and
.Ql || ,
respectively.
.It
Operators (e.g.,
.Sq Fl f ,
.Sq = ,
.Sq \&! ,
etc.) must be unquoted.
.It
The second operand of the
.Sq !=
and
.Sq =
expressions are patterns (e.g., the comparison
.Ic [[ foobar = f*r ]]
succeeds).
.It
There are two additional binary operators:
.Ql <
and
.Ql >
which return true if their first string operand is less than, or greater than,
their second string operand, respectively.
.It
The single argument form of
.Ic test ,
which tests if the argument has a non-zero length, is not valid; explicit
operators must always be used (e.g., instead of
.Ic \&[ Ar str Ic \&]
use
.Ic \&[[ Fl n Ar str Ic \&]] ) .
.It
Parameter, command, and arithmetic substitutions are performed as expressions
are evaluated and lazy expression evaluation is used for the
.Ql &&
and
.Ql ||
operators.
This means that in the statement
.Pp
.Ic \&[[ -r foo && $(< foo) = b*r ]]
.Pp
the
.Ic $(< foo)
is evaluated if and only if the file
.Pa foo
exists and is readable.
.El
.El
.Ss Quoting
Quoting is used to prevent the shell from treating characters or words
specially.
There are three methods of quoting.
First,
.Ql \e
quotes the following character, unless it is at the end of a line, in which
case both the
.Ql \e
and the newline are stripped.
Second, a single quote
.Pq Sq '
quotes everything up to the next single quote (this may span lines).
Third, a double quote
.Pq Sq \&"
quotes all characters, except
.Ql $ ,
.Ql `
and
.Ql \e ,
up to the next unquoted double quote.
.Ql $
and
.Ql `
inside double quotes have their usual meaning (i.e., parameter, command or
arithmetic substitution) except no field splitting is carried out on the
results of double-quoted substitutions.
If a
.Ql \e
inside a double-quoted string is followed by
.Ql \e ,
.Ql $ ,
.Ql `
or
.Ql \&" ,
it is replaced by the second character; if it is followed by a newline, both
the
.Ql \e
and the newline are stripped; otherwise, both the
.Ql \e
and the character following are unchanged.
.Pp
.Sy Note:
See
.Sx POSIX mode
below for a special rule regarding sequences of the form
.Ic \&"...`...\e\&"...`..\&" .
.Ss Aliases
There are two types of aliases: normal command aliases and tracked aliases.
Command aliases are normally used as a short hand for a long or often used
command.
The shell expands command aliases (i.e., substitutes the alias name
for its value) when it reads the first word of a command.
An expanded alias is re-processed to check for more aliases.
If a command alias ends in a
space or tab, the following word is also checked for alias expansion.
The alias expansion process stops when a word that is not an alias is found,
when a quoted word is found or when an alias word that is currently being
expanded is found.
.Pp
The following command aliases are defined automatically by the shell:
.Pp
.Bl -item -offset indent -compact
.It
.Ic autoload='typeset -fu'
.It
.Ic functions='typeset -f'
.It
.Ic hash='alias -t'
.It
.Ic history='fc -l'
.It
.Ic integer='typeset -i'
.It
.Ic local='typeset'
.It
.Ic login='exec login'
.It
.Ic nohup='nohup '
.It
.Ic r='fc -e -'
.It
.Ic stop='kill -STOP'
.It
.Ic suspend='kill -STOP $$'
.It
.Ic type='whence -v'
.El
.Pp
Tracked aliases allow the shell to remember where it found a particular
command.
The first time the shell does a path search for a command that is
marked as a tracked alias, it saves the full path of the command.
The next
time the command is executed, the shell checks the saved path to see that it
is still valid, and if so, avoids repeating the path search.
Tracked aliases can be listed and created using
.Ic alias -t .
Note that changing the
.Ev PATH
parameter clears the saved paths for all tracked aliases.
If the
.Ic trackall
option is set (i.e.,
.Ic set Fl o Ic trackall
or
.Ic set Fl h ) ,
the shell tracks all commands.
This option is set automatically for non-interactive shells.
For interactive shells, only the following commands are
automatically tracked:
.Ic cat , cc , chmod , cp ,
.Ic date , ed , emacs , grep ,
.Ic ls , mail , make , mv ,
.Ic pr , rm , sed , sh ,
.Ic vi
and
.Ic who .
.Ss Substitution
The first step the shell takes in executing a simple-command is to perform
substitutions on the words of the command.
There are three kinds of
substitution: parameter, command, and arithmetic.
Parameter substitutions,
which are described in detail in the next section, take the form
.Ic $ Ns Ar name
or
.Ic ${ Ns Ar ... Ns Ic \&} ;
command substitutions take the form
.Ic $( Ns Ar command Ns Ic \&)
or
.Ic ` Ns Ar command Ns Ic ` ;
and arithmetic substitutions take the form
.Ic $(( Ns Ar expression Ns Ic )) .
.Pp
If a substitution appears outside of double quotes, the results of the
substitution are generally subject to word or field splitting according to
the current value of the
.Ev IFS
parameter.
The
.Ev IFS
parameter specifies a list of characters which are used to break a string up
into several words; any characters from the set space, tab, and newline that
appear in the
.Ev IFS
characters are called
.Dq IFS whitespace .
Sequences of one or more
.Ev IFS
whitespace characters, in combination with zero or one
.Pf non- Ev IFS
whitespace
characters, delimit a field.
As a special case, leading and trailing
.Ev IFS
whitespace and trailing
.Ev IFS
non-whitespace is stripped (i.e., no leading or trailing
empty field is created by it); leading or trailing
.Pf non- Ev IFS
whitespace does create an empty field.
.Pp
Example: If
.Ev IFS
is set to
.Dq <space>: ,
the sequence of characters
.Dq <space>A<space>:<space><space>B::D
contains four fields:
.Sq A ,
.Sq B ,
.Sq
(an empty field) and
.Sq D .
Note that if the
.Ev IFS
parameter is set to the null
string, no field splitting is done; if the parameter is unset, the default
value of space, tab, and newline is used.
.Pp
The results of substitution are, unless otherwise specified, also subject to
brace expansion and file name expansion (see the relevant sections below).
.Pp
A command substitution is replaced by the output generated by the specified
command, which is run in a subshell.
For
.Ic $( Ns Ar command Ns Ic \&)
substitutions, normal quoting rules are used when
.Ar command
is parsed; however, for the
.Ic ` Ns Ar command Ns Ic `
form, a
.Ql \e
followed by any of
.Ql $ ,
.Ql `
or
.Ql \e
is stripped (a
.Ql \e
followed by any other character is unchanged).
As a special case in command substitutions, a command of the form
.Ic \&< Ar file
is interpreted to mean substitute the contents of
.Ar file
(note that
.Ic $(< foo)
has the same effect as
.Ic $(cat foo) ,
but it is carried out more efficiently because no process is started).
.Pp
.Sy Note:
.Ic $( Ns Ar command Ns Ic \&)
expressions are currently parsed by finding the matching parenthesis,
regardless of quoting.
This should be fixed soon.
.Pp
Arithmetic substitutions are replaced by the value of the specified expression.
For example, the command
.Ic echo $((2+3*4))
prints 14.
See
.Sx Arithmetic expressions
for a description of an expression.
.Ss Parameters
Parameters are shell variables; they can be assigned values and their values
can be accessed using a parameter substitution.
A parameter name is either one
of the special single punctuation or digit character parameters described
below, or a letter followed by zero or more letters or digits
.Po
.Ql _
counts as a letter
.Pc .
The later form can be treated as arrays by appending an array index of the
form
.Op Ar expr
where
.Ar expr
is an arithmetic expression.
Array indices are currently limited to the range 0 through 4095 (for
.Nm mksh )
or 1023 (for
.Nm pdksh ) ,
inclusive.
Parameter substitutions take the form
.Ic $ Ns Ar name ,
.Ic ${ Ns Ar name Ns Ic \&}
or
.Sm off
.Xo
.Ic ${ Ar name Oo Ar expr Oc
.Ic \&} ,
.Xc
.Sm on
where
.Ar name
is a parameter name.
If substitution is performed on a parameter
(or an array parameter element)
that is not set, a null string is substituted unless the
.Ic nounset
option
.Po
.Ic set Fl o Ic nounset
or
.Ic set Fl u
.Pc
is set, in which case an error occurs.
.Pp
Parameters can be assigned values in a number of ways.
First, the shell implicitly sets some parameters like
.Ic # , PWD ,
etc.; this is the only way the special single character parameters are set.
Second, parameters are imported from the shell's environment at startup.
Third, parameters can be assigned values on the command line, for example,
.Ic FOO=bar
sets the parameter
.Ev FOO
to
.Dq bar ;
multiple parameter assignments can be given on a single command line and they
can be followed by a simple-command, in which case the assignments are in
effect only for the duration of the command (such assignments are also
exported, see below for implications of this).
Note that both the parameter name and the
.Ql =
must be unquoted for the shell to recognize a parameter assignment.
The fourth way of setting a parameter is with the
.Ic export ,
.Ic readonly
and
.Ic typeset
commands; see their descriptions in the
.Sx Command execution
section.
Fifth,
.Ic for
and
.Ic select
loops set parameters as well as the
.Ic getopts ,
.Ic read
and
.Ic set Fl A
commands.
Lastly, parameters can be assigned values using assignment operators
inside arithmetic expressions (see
.Sx Arithmetic expressions
below) or using the
.Xo Ic ${ Ns Ar name Ns =
.Ns Ar value Ns Ic \&}
.Xc
form of the parameter substitution (see below).
.Pp
Parameters with the export attribute (set using the
.Ic export
or
.Ic typeset Fl x
commands, or by parameter assignments followed by simple commands) are put in
the environment (see
.Xr environ 7 )
of commands run by the shell as
.Ar name Ns = Ns Ar value
pairs.
The order in which parameters appear in the environment of a command is
unspecified.
When the shell starts up, it extracts parameters and their values
from its environment and automatically sets the export attribute for those
parameters.
.Pp
Modifiers can be applied to the
.Ic ${ Ns Ar name Ns Ic \&}
form of parameter substitution:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Xo Ic ${ Ns Ar name Ns
.Ic \&:\&- Ns Ar word Ns Ic \&}
.Xc
If
.Ar name
is set and not
.Dv NULL ,
it is substituted; otherwise,
.Ar word
is substituted.
.It Xo Ic ${ Ns Ar name Ns
.Ic \&:\&+ Ns Ar word Ns Ic \&}
.Xc
If
.Ar name
is set and not
.Dv NULL ,
.Ar word
is substituted; otherwise, nothing is substituted.
.It Xo Ic ${ Ns Ar name Ns
.Ic \&:\&= Ns Ar word Ns Ic \&}
.Xc
If
.Ar name
is set and not
.Dv NULL ,
it is substituted; otherwise, it is assigned
.Ar word
and the resulting value of
.Ar name
is substituted.
.It Xo Ic ${ Ns Ar name Ns
.Ic \&:\&? Ns Ar word Ns Ic \&}
.Xc
If
.Ar name
is set and not
.Dv NULL ,
it is substituted; otherwise,
.Ar word
is printed on standard error (preceded by
.Ar name Ns \&: )
and an error occurs (normally causing termination of a shell script, function
or .-script).
If word is omitted the string
.Dq parameter null or not set
is used instead.
.El
.Pp
In the above modifiers, the
.Ql \&:
can be omitted, in which case the conditions only depend on
.Ar name
being set (as opposed to set and not
.Dv NULL ) .
If
.Ar word
is needed, parameter, command, arithmetic, and tilde substitution are performed
on it; if
.Ar word
is not needed, it is not evaluated.
.Pp
The following forms of parameter substitution can also be used:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Ic ${# Ns Ar name Ns Ic \&}
The number of positional parameters if
.Ar name
is
.Ql * ,
.Ql @ ,
not specified, or the length of the string value of parameter
.Ar name .
.It Xo Ic ${# Ns Ar name Ns
.Ic [*\&]} , ${# Ns Ar name Ns Ic [@\&]}
.Xc
The number of elements in the array
.Ar name .
.Sm off
.It Xo
.Ic ${ Ar name Ic # Ar pattern
.Sm on
.Ic } ,
.Sm off
.Ic ${ Ar name Ic ## Ar pattern Ic \&}
.Xc
.Sm on
If
.Ar pattern
matches the beginning of the value of parameter
.Ar name ,
the matched text is deleted from the result of substitution.
A single
.Ql #
results in the shortest match, and two
of them result in the longest match.
.Sm off
.It Xo
.Ic ${ Ar name Ic % Ar pattern
.Sm on
.Ic } ,
.Sm off
.Ic ${ Ar name Ic %% Ar pattern Ic }
.Xc
.Sm on
Like
.Ic ${..#..}
substitution, but it deletes from the end of the value.
.El
.Pp
The following special parameters are implicitly set by the shell and cannot be
set directly using assignments:
.Bl -tag -width "1 ... 9"
.It Ev \&!
Process ID of the last background process started.
If no background processes have been started, the parameter is not set.
.It Ev \&#
The number of positional parameters (i.e.,
.Va $1 , $2 ,
etc.).
.It Ev \&$
The process ID of the shell, or the
.Tn PID
of the original shell if it is a subshell.
Do
.Em NOT
use this mechanism for generating temporary file names; see
.Xr mktemp 1
instead.
.It Ev \&-
The concatenation of the current single letter options (see the
.Ic set
command below for a list of options).
.It Ev \&?
The exit status of the last non-asynchronous command executed.
If the last command was killed by a signal,
.Va \&$?\&
is set to 128 plus the signal number.
.It Ev 0
The name the shell was invoked with (i.e.,
.Li argv[0] )
or the
.Ar command-name
if it was invoked with the
.Fl c
option and the
.Ar command-name
was supplied, or the
.Ar file
argument, if it was supplied.
If the
.Ic posix
option is not set,
.Ic \&$0
is the name of the current function or script.
.It Ev 1 ... Ev 9
The first nine positional parameters that were supplied to the shell, function
or .-script.
Further positional parameters may be accessed using
.Ic ${ Ns Ar number Ns Ic \&} .
.It Ev \&*
All positional parameters (except parameter 0); i.e.,
.Va $1 , $2 , $3 ,
\&...
If used
outside of double quotes, parameters are separate words (which are subjected
to word splitting); if used within double quotes, parameters are separated
by the first character of the
.Ev IFS
parameter (or the empty string if
.Ev IFS
is
.Dv NULL ) .
.It Ev \&@
Same as
.Ic \&$\&* ,
unless it is used inside double quotes, in which case a separate word is
generated for each positional parameter.
If there are no positional parameters, no word is generated.
.Ic \&$\&@
can be used to access arguments, verbatim, without losing
.Dv NULL
arguments or splitting arguments with spaces.
.El
.Pp
The following parameters are set and/or used by the shell:
.Bl -tag -width "EXECSHELL"
.It Ev \&_ No (underscore)
When an external command is executed by the shell, this parameter is set in the
environment of the new process to the path of the executed command.
In interactive use, this parameter is also set in the parent shell to the last
word of the previous command.
.It Ev CDPATH
Search path for the
.Ic cd
built-in command.
Works the same way as
.Ev PATH
for those directories not beginning with
.Ql /
in
.Ic cd
commands.
Note that if
.Ev CDPATH
is set and does not contain
.Dq \&.
or contains an empty path, the current directory is not searched.
Also, the
.Ic cd
built-in command will display the resulting directory when a match is found
in any search path other than the empty path.
.It Ev COLUMNS
Set to the number of columns on the terminal or window.
Currently set to the
.Dq cols
value as reported by
.Xr stty 1
if that value is non-zero.
This parameter is used by the interactive line editing modes, and by the
.Ic select ,
.Ic set Fl o
and
.Ic kill Fl l
commands to format information columns.
.It Ev EDITOR
If the
.Ev VISUAL
parameter is not set, this parameter controls the command-line editing mode for
interactive shells.
See
.Ev VISUAL
parameter below for how this works.
.It Ev ENV
If this parameter is found to be set after any profile files are executed, the
expanded value is used as a shell startup file.
It typically contains function and alias definitions.
.It Ev ERRNO
Integer value of the shell's
.Va errno
variable.
It indicates the reason the last system call failed.
Not yet implemented.
.It Ev EXECSHELL
If set, this parameter is assumed to contain the shell that is to be used to
execute commands that
.Xr execve 2
fails to execute and which do not start with a
.Dq \&#\&! Ns Ar shell
sequence.
.It Ev FCEDIT
The editor used by the
.Ic fc
command (see below).
.It Ev FPATH
Like
.Ev PATH ,
but used when an undefined function is executed to locate the file defining the
function.
It is also searched when a command can't be found using
.Ev PATH .
See
.Sx Functions
below for more information.
.It Ev HISTFILE
The name of the file used to store command history.
When assigned to, history is loaded from the specified file.
Also, several invocations of the shell
running on the same machine will share history if their
.Ev HISTFILE
parameters all point to the same file.
.Pp
.Sy Note:
If
.Ev HISTFILE
isn't set, no history file is used.
This is different from the original Korn shell, which uses
.Pa $HOME/.sh_history
by default.
.It Ev HISTSIZE
The number of commands normally stored for history.
The default is 511.
.It Ev HOME
The default directory for the
.Ic cd
command and the value substituted for an unqualified
.Ic ~
(see
.Sx Tilde expansion
below).
.It Ev IFS
Internal field separator, used during substitution and by the
.Ic read
command, to split values into distinct arguments; normally set to space, tab
and newline.
See
.Sx Substitution
above for details.
.Pp
.Sy Note:
This parameter is not imported from the environment when the shell is
started.
.It Ev KSH_VERSION
The version of the shell, consisting of the upstream
.Nm pdksh
version (and sometimes date), the string
.Dq MirOS
and the
.Xr rcs 1
revision number (read-only).
See also the version commands in
.Sx Emacs editing mode
and
.Sx Vi editing mode
sections, below.
.It Ev LINENO
The line number of the function or shell script that is currently being
executed.
.It Ev LINES
Set to the number of lines on the terminal or window.
Not yet implemented.
.It Ev OLDPWD
The previous working directory.
Unset if
.Ic cd
has not successfully changed directories since the shell started, or if the
shell doesn't know where it is.
.It Ev OPTARG
When using
.Ic getopts ,
it contains the argument for a parsed option, if it requires one.
.It Ev OPTIND
The index of the last argument processed when using
.Ic getopts .
Assigning 1 to this parameter causes
.Ic getopts
to process arguments from the beginning the next time it is invoked.
.It Ev PATH
A colon separated list of directories that are searched when looking for
commands and .'d files.
An empty string resulting from a leading or trailing
colon, or two adjacent colons, is treated as a
.Dq \&. ,
the current directory.
.It Ev POSIXLY_CORRECT
If set, this parameter causes the
.Ic posix
option to be enabled.
See
.Sx POSIX mode
below.
.It Ev PPID
The process ID of the shell's parent (read-only).
.It Ev PS1
The primary prompt for interactive shells.
Parameter, command, and arithmetic
substitutions are performed, and
.Ql \&!
is replaced with the current command number (see the
.Ic fc
command below).
A literal
.Ql \&!
can be put in the prompt by placing
.Ql !!
in
.Ev PS1 .
Note that since the command-line editors try to figure out how long the prompt
is (so they know how far it is to the edge of the screen), escape codes in
the prompt tend to mess things up.
You can tell the shell not to count certain
sequences (such as escape codes) by prefixing your prompt with a non-printing
character (such as control-A) followed by a carriage return and then delimiting
the escape codes with this non-printing character.
If you don't have any non-printing characters, you're out of luck.
By the way, don't blame me for
this hack; it's in the original
.Xr ksh88 1 .
Default is
.Dq \&$\ \&
for non-root users,
.Dq \&#\ \&
for root.
.Pp
Since Backslashes and other special characters may be
interpreted by the shell, to set
.Ev PS1
either escape the backslash itself,
or use double quotes.
The latter is more practical.
This is a more complex example which embeds the current working
directory, in reverse video, into the prompt string, avoiding to
directly enter special characters (for example with
.Ic ^^
in the emacs editing mode):
.Bd -literal -offset indent
$ x=$(print \e\e001)
$ PS1="$x$(print \e\er)$x$(tput so)$x\e$PWD$x$(tput se)$x> "
.Ed
.It Ev PS2
Secondary prompt string, by default
.Dq \&>\ \& ,
used when more input is needed to complete a command.
.It Ev PS3
Prompt used by the
.Ic select
statement when reading a menu selection.
Default is
.Dq \&#\&?\ \& .
.It Ev PS4
Used to prefix commands that are printed during execution tracing (see the
.Ic set Fl x
command below).
Parameter, command, and arithmetic substitutions are performed
before it is printed.
Default is
.Dq \&+\ \& .
.It Ev PWD
The current working directory.
May be unset or
.Dv NULL
if the shell doesn't know where it is.
.It Ev RANDOM
A pseudo-random number generator.
Every time
.Ev RANDOM
is referenced, it is assigned a random number in the range
0\-32767.
Until the variable is written to, the
.Xr arc4random 3
function is being used, after a write or if the function is not available,
.Xr random 3
or, if that does not exist,
.Xr rand 3 ,
is being used.
On startup and fork, the value is seeded and the initial state of
not being written to initialised.
If a feedback function is provided, changed values are propagated
back to the arcfour random number generator.
.It Ev REPLY
Default parameter for the
.Ic read
command if no names are given.
Also used in
.Ic select
loops to store the value that is read from standard input.
.It Ev SECONDS
The number of seconds since the shell started or, if the parameter has been
assigned an integer value, the number of seconds since the assignment plus the
value that was assigned.
.It Ev TMOUT
If set to a positive integer in an interactive shell, it specifies the maximum
number of seconds the shell will wait for input after printing the primary
prompt
.Pq Ev PS1 .
If the time is exceeded, the shell exits.
.It Ev TMPDIR
The directory shell temporary files are created in.
If this parameter is not
set, or does not contain the absolute path of a writable directory, temporary
files are created in
.Pa /tmp .
.It Ev VISUAL
If set, this parameter controls the command-line editing mode for interactive
shells.
If the last component of the path specified in this parameter contains
the string
.Dq vi ,
.Dq emacs
or
.Dq gmacs ,
the
.Xr vi ,
.Xr emacs
or
.Xr gmacs
(Gosling emacs) editing mode is enabled, respectively.
.El
.Ss Tilde expansion
Tilde expansion, which is done in parallel with parameter substitution, is done
on words starting with an unquoted
.Ql ~ .
The characters following the tilde, up to the first
.Ql / ,
if any, are assumed to be a login name.
If the login name is empty,
.Ql +
or
.Ql - ,
the value of the
.Ev HOME ,
.Ev PWD
or
.Ev OLDPWD
parameter is substituted, respectively.
Otherwise, the password file is
searched for the login name, and the tilde expression is substituted with the
user's home directory.
If the login name is not found in the password file or
if any quoting or parameter substitution occurs in the login name, no
substitution is performed.
.Pp
In parameter assignments (those preceding a simple-command or those occurring
in the arguments of
.Ic alias ,
.Ic export ,
.Ic readonly
and
.Ic typeset ) ,
tilde expansion is done after any unquoted colon
.Pq Sq \&: ,
and login names are also delimited by colons.
.Pp
The home directory of previously expanded login names are cached and re-used.
The
.Ic alias -d
command may be used to list, change, and add to this cache (e.g.,
.Ic alias -d fac=/usr/local/facilities; cd ~fac/bin ) .
.Ss Brace expansion (alteration)
Brace expressions, which take the form
.Pp
.Sm off
.D1 Xo Ar prefix Ic { Ar str No 1,...,
.Ar str No N Ic } Ar suffix
.Xc
.Sm on
.Pp
are expanded to N words, each of which is the concatenation of
.Ar prefix ,
.Ar str Ns i
and
.Ar suffix
(e.g.,
.Dq a{c,b{X,Y},d}e
expands to four words:
.Dq ace ,
.Dq abXe ,
.Dq abYe
and
.Dq ade ) .
As noted in the example, brace expressions can be nested and the resulting
words are not sorted.
Brace expressions must contain an unquoted comma
.Pq Sq \&,
for expansion to occur (i.e.,
.Ic {}
and
.Ic {foo}
are not expanded).
Brace expansion is carried out after parameter substitution
and before file name generation.
.Ss File name patterns
A file name pattern is a word containing one or more unquoted
.Ql \&?
or
.Ql *
characters or
.Dq [..]
sequences.
Once brace expansion has been performed, the shell replaces file
name patterns with the sorted names of all the files that match the pattern
(if no files match, the word is left unchanged).
The pattern elements have the following meaning:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Ic \&?
Matches any single character.
.It Ic \&*
Matches any sequence of characters.
.It Ic \&[ Ns .. Ns Ic \&]
Matches any of the characters inside the brackets.
Ranges of characters can be
specified by separating two characters by a
.Ql -
(e.g.,
.Dq [a0-9]
matches the letter
.Dq a
or any digit).
In order to represent itself, a
.Ql -
must either be quoted or the first or last character in the character list.
Similarly, a
.Ql \&]
must be quoted or the first character in the list if it is to represent itself
instead of the end of the list.
Also, a
.Ql \&!
appearing at the start of the list has special meaning (see below), so to
represent itself it must be quoted or appear later in the list.
.It Ic \&[\&! Ns .. Ns Ic \&]
Like
.Ic \&[ Ns .. Ns Ic \&] ,
except it matches any character not inside the brackets.
.Sm off
.It Xo Ic \&*( Ar pattern Ic \&| No \ ...\ \&
.Ic \&| Ar pattern Ic \&)
.Xc
.Sm on
Matches any string of characters that matches zero or more occurrences of the
specified patterns.
Example: The pattern
.Ic \&*(foo\&|bar)
matches the strings
.Dq ,
.Dq foo ,
.Dq bar ,
.Dq foobarfoo ,
etc.
.Sm off
.It Xo Ic \&+( Ar pattern Ic \&| No \ ...\ \&
.Ic \&| Ar pattern Ic \&)
.Xc
.Sm on
Matches any string of characters that matches one or more occurrences of the
specified patterns.
Example: The pattern
.Ic \&+(foo\&|bar)
matches the strings
.Dq foo ,
.Dq bar ,
.Dq foobar ,
etc.
.Sm off
.It Xo Ic \&?( Ar pattern Ic \&| No \ ...\ \&
.Ic \&| Ar pattern Ic \&)
.Xc
.Sm on
Matches the empty string or a string that matches one of the specified
patterns.
Example: The pattern
.Ic \&?(foo\&|bar)
only matches the strings
.Dq ,
.Dq foo
and
.Dq bar .
.Sm off
.It Xo Ic \&@( Ar pattern Ic \&| No \ ...\ \&
.Ic \&| Ar pattern Ic \&)
.Xc
.Sm on
Matches a string that matches one of the specified patterns.
Example: The pattern
.Ic \&@(foo\&|bar)
only matches the strings
.Dq foo
and
.Dq bar .
.Sm off
.It Xo Ic \&!( Ar pattern Ic \&| No \ ...\ \&
.Ic \&| Ar pattern Ic \&)
.Xc
.Sm on
Matches any string that does not match one of the specified patterns.
Examples: The pattern
.Ic \&!(foo\&|bar)
matches all strings except
.Dq foo
and
.Dq bar ;
the pattern
.Ic \&!(\&*)
matches no strings; the pattern
.Ic \&!(\&?)\&*
matches all strings (think about it).
.El
.Pp
Note that
.Nm pdksh
currently never matches
.Dq \&.
and
.Dq \&.\&. ,
but the original
.Xr ksh ,
Bourne
.Xr sh
and GNU
.Xr bash
do.
For
.Nm pdksh ,
this may have to change (too bad), but
.Nm mksh
will not adopt this behaviour.
.Pp
Note that none of the above pattern elements match either a period
.Pq Sq \&.
at the start of a file name or a slash
.Pq Sq / ,
even if they are explicitly used in a
.Ic \&[ Ns .. Ns Ic \&]
sequence; also, the names
.Dq \&.
and
.Dq \&.\&.
are never matched, even by the pattern
.Dq \&.\&* .
.Pp
If the
.Ic markdirs
option is set, any directories that result from file name generation are marked
with a trailing
.Ql / .
.Pp
The
.Tn POSIX
character classes (i.e.,
.Ic \&[\&: Ns Ar class-name Ns Ic \&:\&]
inside a
.Ic \&[ Ns .. Ns Ic \&]
expression) are not yet implemented.
.Ss Input/output redirection
When a command is executed, its standard input, standard output, and standard
error (file descriptors 0, 1, and 2, respectively) are normally inherited from
the shell.
Three exceptions to this are commands in pipelines, for which
standard input and/or standard output are those set up by the pipeline,
asynchronous commands created when job control is disabled, for which standard
input is initially set to be from
.Pa /dev/null ,
and commands for which any of the following redirections have been specified:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Ic \&> Ar file
Standard output is redirected to
.Ar file .
If
.Ar file
does not exist, it is created; if it does exist, is a regular file and the
.Ic noclobber
option is set, an error occurs; otherwise, the file is truncated.
Note that this means the command
.Ic cmd < foo > foo
will open
.Ar foo
for reading and then truncate it when it opens it for writing, before
.Ar cmd
gets a chance to actually read
.Ar foo .
.It Ic \&>\&| Ar file
Same as
.Ic \&> ,
except the file is truncated, even if the
.Ic noclobber
option is set.
.It Ic \&>\&> Ar file
Same as
.Ic \&> ,
except if
.Ar file
exists it is appended to instead of being truncated.
Also, the file is opened
in append mode, so writes always go to the end of the file (see
.Xr open 2 ) .
.It Ic \&< Ar file
Standard input is redirected from
.Ar file ,
which is opened for reading.
.It Ic \&<\&> Ar file
Same as
.Ic \&< ,
except the file is opened for reading and writing.
.It Ic \&<\&< Ar marker
After reading the command line containing this kind of redirection (called a
.Dq here document ) ,
the shell copies lines from the command source into a temporary file until a
line matching
.Ar marker
is read.
When the command is executed, standard input is redirected from the
temporary file.
If
.Ar marker
contains no quoted characters, the contents of the temporary file are processed
as if enclosed in double quotes each time the command is executed, so
parameter, command, and arithmetic substitutions are performed, along with
backslash
.Pq Sq \e
escapes for
.Ql $ ,
.Ql ` ,
.Ql \e
and
.Ql \enewline .
If multiple here documents are used on the same command line, they are saved in
order.
.It Ic \&<\&<\&- Ar marker
Same as
.Ic \&<\&< ,
except leading tabs are stripped from lines in the here document.
.It Ic \&<\&& Ar fd
Standard input is duplicated from file descriptor
.Ar fd .
.Ar fd
can be a single digit, indicating the number of an existing file descriptor;
the letter
.Ql p ,
indicating the file descriptor associated with the output of the current
co-process; or the character
.Ql - ,
indicating standard input is to be closed.
.It Ic \&>\&& Ar fd
Same as
.Ic \&<\&& ,
except the operation is done on standard output.
.El
.Pp
In any of the above redirections, the file descriptor that is redirected (i.e.,
standard input or standard output) can be explicitly given by preceding the
redirection with a single digit.
Parameter, command, and arithmetic
substitutions, tilde substitutions, and (if the shell is interactive)
file name generation are all performed on the
.Ar file ,
.Ar marker
and
.Ar fd
arguments of redirections.
Note, however, that the results of any file name
generation are only used if a single file is matched; if multiple files match,
the word with the expanded file name generation characters is used.
Note
that in restricted shells, redirections which can create files cannot be used.
.Pp
For simple-commands, redirections may appear anywhere in the command; for
compound-commands
.Po
.Ic if
statements, etc.
.Pc ,
any redirections must appear at the end.
Redirections are processed after
pipelines are created and in the order they are given, so
.Pp
.Ic cat /foo/bar 2\&>&1 \&> /dev/null \&| cat -n
.Pp
will print an error with a line number prepended to it.
.Ss Arithmetic expressions
Integer arithmetic expressions can be used with the
.Ic let
command, inside
.Ic $(( Ns .. Ns Ic ))
expressions, inside array references (e.g.,
.Sm off
.Ar name Ic \&[ Ar expr Ic \&] ) ,
.Sm on
as numeric arguments to the
.Ic test
command, and as the value of an assignment to an integer parameter.
.Pp
Expressions may contain alpha-numeric parameter identifiers, array references
and integer constants and may be combined with the following C operators
(listed and grouped in increasing order of precedence):
.Pp
Unary operators:
.Bl -item -offset indent -compact
.It
.Ic \&+ \&- \&! \&~ \&+\&+ \&-\&-
.El
.Pp
Binary operators:
.Bl -item -offset indent -compact
.It
.Ic \&,
.It
.Ic = \&*= /= %= \&+= \&-= \&<\&<=
.Ic \&>\&>= \&&= ^= \&|=
.It
.Ic \&|\&|
.It
.Ic \&&\&&
.It
.Ic \&|
.It
.Ic ^
.It
.Ic \&&
.It
.Ic == \&!=
.It
.Ic \&< \&<= \&>= \&>
.It
.Ic \&<\&< \&>\&>
.It
.Ic \&+ \&-
.It
.Ic \&* / %
.El
.Pp
Ternary operators:
.Bl -item -offset indent -compact
.It
.Ic \&?\&:
(precedence is immediately higher than assignment)
.El
.Pp
Grouping operators:
.Bl -item -offset indent -compact
.It
.Ic \&( \&)
.El
.Pp
Integer constants may be specified with arbitrary bases using the notation
.Ar base Ns Ic \&# Ns Ar number ,
where
.Ar base
is a decimal integer specifying the base, and
.Ar number
is a number in the specified base.
.Pp
The operators are evaluated as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent
.It unary Ic \&+
Result is the argument (included for completeness).
.It unary Ic \&-
Negation.
.It Ic \&!
Logical
.Tn NOT ;
the result is 1 if argument is zero, 0 if not.
.It Ic \&~
Arithmetic (bit-wise)
.Tn NOT .
.It Ic \&+\&+
Increment; must be applied to a parameter (not a literal or other expression).
The parameter is incremented by 1.
When used as a prefix operator, the result
is the incremented value of the parameter; when used as a postfix operator, the
result is the original value of the parameter.
.It Ic \&-\&-
Similar to
.Ic \&+\&+ ,
except the parameter is decremented by 1.
.It Ic \&,
Separates two arithmetic expressions; the left-hand side is evaluated first,
then the right.
The result is the value of the expression on the right-hand side.
.It Ic =
Assignment; variable on the left is set to the value on the right.
.It Xo Ic \&*= /= \&+= \&-= \&<\&<=
.Ic \&>\&>= \&&= ^= \&|=
.Xc
Assignment operators.
.Ao Ar var Ac
.Ao Ar op Ac =
.Ao Ar expr Ac
is the same as
.Ao Ar var Ac =
.Ao Ar var Ac
.Ao Ar op Ac
.Ic \&(
.Ao Ar expr Ac
.Ic \&) .
.It Ic \&|\&|
Logical
.Tn OR ;
the result is 1 if either argument is non-zero, 0 if not.
The right argument is evaluated only if the left argument is zero.
.It Ic \&&\&&
Logical
.Tn AND ;
the result is 1 if both arguments are non-zero, 0 if not.
The right argument is evaluated only if the left argument is non-zero.
.It Ic \&|
Arithmetic (bit-wise)
.Tn OR .
.It Ic ^
Arithmetic (bit-wise)
.Tn XOR
(exclusive-OR).
.It Ic \&&
Arithmetic (bit-wise)
.Tn AND .
.It Ic ==
Equal; the result is 1 if both arguments are equal, 0 if not.
.It Ic \&!=
Not equal; the result is 0 if both arguments are equal, 1 if not.
.It Ic \&<
Less than; the result is 1 if the left argument is less than the right, 0 if
not.
.It Ic \&<= \&>= \&>
Less than or equal, greater than or equal, greater than.
See
.Ic \&< .
.It Ic \&<\&< \&>\&>
Shift left (right); the result is the left argument with its bits shifted left
(right) by the amount given in the right argument.
.It Ic \&+ \&- \&* /
Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
.It Ic %
Remainder; the result is the remainder of the division of the left argument by
the right.
The sign of the result is unspecified if either argument is negative.
.It Xo Ao Ar arg1 Ac Ic \ \&?
.Ao Ar arg2 Ac Ic \ \&: Ao Ar arg3 Ac
.Xc
If
.Ao Ar arg1 Ac
is non-zero, the result is
.Ao Ar arg2 Ac ,
otherwise
.Ao Ar arg3 Ac .
.El
.Ss Co-processes
A co-process, which is a pipeline created with the
.Ic \&|\&&
operator, is an asynchronous process that the shell can both write to (using
.Ic print -p )
and read from (using
.Ic read -p ) .
The input and output of the co-process can also be manipulated using
.Ic \&>\&&p
and
.Ic \&<\&&p
redirections, respectively.
Once a co-process has been started, another can't
be started until the co-process exits, or until the co-process's input has been
redirected using an
.Ic exec Ar n Ns Ic \&>\&&p
redirection.
If a co-process's input is redirected in this way, the next
co-process to be started will share the output with the first co-process,
unless the output of the initial co-process has been redirected using an
.Ic exec Ar n Ns Ic \&<\&&p
redirection.
.Pp
Some notes concerning co-processes:
.Bl -bullet
.It
The only way to close the co-process's input (so the co-process reads an
end-of-file) is to redirect the input to a numbered file descriptor and then
close that file descriptor (e.g.,
.Ic exec 3\&>\&&p\&; exec 3\&>\&&\&- ) .
.It
In order for co-processes to share a common output, the shell must keep the
write portion of the output pipe open.
This means that end-of-file will not be
detected until all co-processes sharing the co-process's output have exited
(when they all exit, the shell closes its copy of the pipe).
This can be
avoided by redirecting the output to a numbered file descriptor (as this also
causes the shell to close its copy).
Note that this behaviour is slightly
different from the original Korn shell which closes its copy of the write
portion of the co-process output when the most recently started co-process
(instead of when all sharing co-processes) exits.
.It
.Ic print -p
will ignore
.Dv SIGPIPE
signals during writes if the signal is not being trapped or ignored; the same
is true if the co-process input has been duplicated to another file descriptor
and
.Ic print -u Ns Ar n
is used.
.El
.Ss Functions
Functions are defined using either Korn shell
.Ic function Ar name
syntax or the Bourne/POSIX shell
.Fn name
syntax (see below for the difference between the two forms).
Functions are like
.Li .-scripts
in that they are executed in the current environment.
However, unlike
.Li .-scripts ,
shell arguments (i.e., positional parameters
.Va $1 , $2 ,
etc.) are never visible
inside them.
When the shell is determining the location of a command, functions
are searched after special built-in commands, before regular and
non-regular built-ins, and before the
.Ev PATH
is searched.
.Pp
An existing function may be deleted using
.Ic unset Fl f Ar function-name .
A list of functions can be obtained using
.Ic typeset \&+f
and the function definitions can be listed using
.Ic typeset \&-f .
The
.Ic autoload
command (which is an alias for
.Ic typeset \&-fu )
may be used to create undefined functions; when an undefined function is
executed, the shell searches the path specified in the
.Ev FPATH
parameter for a file with the same name as the function, which, if found, is
read and executed.
If after executing the file the named function is found to
be defined, the function is executed; otherwise, the normal command search is
continued (i.e., the shell searches the regular built-in command table and
.Ev PATH ) .
Note that if a command is not found using
.Ev PATH ,
an attempt is made to autoload a function using
.Ev FPATH
(this is an undocumented feature of the original Korn shell).
.Pp
Functions can have two attributes,
.Dq trace
and
.Dq export ,
which can be set with
.Ic typeset \&-ft
and
.Ic typeset \&-fx ,
respectively.
When a traced function is executed, the shell's
.Ic xtrace
option is turned on for the function's duration; otherwise, the
.Ic xtrace
option is turned off.
The
.Dq export
attribute of functions is currently not used.
In the original Korn shell,
exported functions are visible to shell scripts that are executed.
.Pp
Since functions are executed in the current shell environment, parameter
assignments made inside functions are visible after the function completes.
If this is not the desired effect, the
.Ic typeset
command can be used inside a function to create a local parameter.
Note that special parameters (e.g., $$, $\&!) can't be scoped in this way.
.Pp
The exit status of a function is that of the last command executed in the
function.
A function can be made to finish immediately using the
.Ic return
command; this may also be used to explicitly specify the exit status.
.Pp
Functions defined with the
.Ic function
reserved word are treated differently in the following ways from functions
defined with the
.Ic \&(\&)
notation:
.Bl -bullet
.It
The $0 parameter is set to the name of the function (Bourne-style functions
leave $0 untouched).
.It
Parameter assignments preceding function calls are not kept in the shell
environment (executing Bourne-style functions will keep assignments).
.It
.Ev OPTIND
is saved/reset and restored on entry and exit from the function so
.Ic getopts
can be used properly both inside and outside the function (Bourne-style
functions leave
.Dv OPTIND
untouched, so using
.Ic getopts
inside a function interferes with using
.Ic getopts
outside the function).
In the future, the following differences will also be added:
.Bl -bullet -offset indent
.It
A separate trap/signal environment will be used during the execution of
functions.
This will mean that traps set inside a function will not affect the
shell's traps and signals that are not ignored in the shell (but may be
trapped) will have their default effect in a function.
.It
The EXIT trap, if set in a function, will be executed after the function
returns.
.El
.El
.Ss POSIX mode
The shell is intended to be
.Tn POSIX
compliant; however, in some cases,
.Tn POSIX
behaviour is contrary either to the original Korn shell behaviour or to user
convenience.
How the shell behaves in these cases is determined by the state of the
.Ic posix
option
.Pq Ic set Fl o Ic posix .
If it is on, the
.Tn POSIX
behaviour is followed; otherwise, it is not.
The
.Ic posix
option is set automatically when the shell starts up if the environment
contains the
.Dv POSIXLY_CORRECT
parameter. (The shell can also be compiled so that it is in
.Tn POSIX
mode by default; however, this is usually not desirable).
.Pp
The following is a list of things that are affected by the state of the
.Ic posix
option:
.Bl -bullet
Reading of
.Ev $ENV .
If not in
.Ic posix
mode, the
.Ev ENV
parameter is not expanded and included when the shell starts.
.It
Occurrences of
.Ic \e\&"
inside double quoted
.Ic `\&.\&.`
command substitutions.
In
.Tn POSIX
mode, the
.Ic \e\&"
is interpreted when the command is interpreted; in
.Pf non- Tn POSIX
mode, the
backslash is stripped before the command substitution is interpreted.
For example,
.Ic echo \&"`echo \e\&"hi\e\&"`\&"
produces
.Dq \&"hi\&"
in
.Tn POSIX
mode,
.Dq hi
in
.Pf non- Tn POSIX
mode.
To avoid problems, use the
.Ic $(...)\&
form of command substitution.
.It
.Ic kill -l
output.
In
.Tn POSIX
mode, signal names are listed one per line; in
.Pf non- Tn POSIX
mode,
signal numbers, names, and descriptions are printed in columns.
In future, a new option
.Po Fl v
\ perhaps
.Pc
will be added to distinguish the two behaviours.
.It
.Ic fg
exit status.
In
.Tn POSIX
mode, the exit status is 0 if no errors occur; in
.Pf non- Tn POSIX
mode, the exit status is that of the last foregrounded job.
.It
.Ic eval
exit status.
If
.Ic eval
gets to see an empty command (i.e.,
.Ic eval "`false`" ) ,
its exit status in
.Tn POSIX
mode will be 0.
In
.Pf non- Tn POSIX
mode, it will be the exit status of the last command substitution that was
done in the processing of the arguments to
.Ic eval
(or 0 if there were no command substitutions).
.It
.Ic getopts .
In
.Tn POSIX
mode, options must start with a
.Ql - ;
in
.Pf non- Tn POSIX
mode, options can start with either
.Ql -
or
.Ql + .
.It
Brace expansion (also known as alternation).
In
.Tn POSIX
mode, brace expansion is
disabled; in
.Pf non- Tn POSIX
mode, brace expansion is enabled.
Note that
.Ic set Fl o Ic posix
(or setting the
.Ev POSIXLY_CORRECT
parameter) automatically turns the
.Ic braceexpand
option off; however, it can be explicitly turned on later.
.It
.Ic set \&- .
In
.Tn POSIX
mode, this does not clear the
.Ic verbose
or
.Ic xtrace
options; in
.Pf non- Tn POSIX
mode, it does.
.It
.Ic set
exit status.
In
.Tn POSIX
mode, the exit status of
.Ic set
is 0 if there are no errors; in
.Pf non- Tn POSIX
mode, the exit status is that of any
command substitutions performed in generating the
.Ic set
command.
For example,
.Ic set \&-\&- `false`; echo $?\&
prints 0 in
.Tn POSIX
mode, 1 in
.Pf non- Tn POSIX
mode.
This construct is used in most shell scripts that use the old
.Xr getopt 1
command.
.It
Argument expansion of the
.Ic alias ,
.Ic export ,
.Ic readonly
and
.Ic typeset
commands.
In
.Tn POSIX
mode, normal argument expansion is done; in
.Pf non- Tn POSIX
mode,
field splitting, file globbing, brace expansion, and (normal) tilde expansion
are turned off, while assignment tilde expansion is turned on.
.It
Signal specification.
In
.Tn POSIX
mode, signals can be specified as digits, only
if signal numbers match
.Tn POSIX
values (i.e., HUP=1, INT=2, QUIT=3, ABRT=6,
KILL=9, ALRM=14, and TERM=15); in
.Pf non- Tn POSIX
mode, signals can always be digits.
.It
Alias expansion.
In
.Tn POSIX
mode, alias expansion is only carried out when
reading command words; in
.Pf non- Tn POSIX
mode, alias expansion is carried out on any
word following an alias that ended in a space.
For example, the following
.Ic for
loop
.Pp
.Bl -item -offset indent -compact
.It
.Ic alias a='for ' i='j'
.It
.Xo
.Ic a i in 1 2; do echo i=$i j=$j;
.Ic done
.Xc
.El
.Pp
uses parameter
.Ic i
in
.Tn POSIX
mode,
.Ic j
in
.Pf non- Tn POSIX
mode.
.It
Test.
In
.Tn POSIX
mode, the expression
.Sq Fl t
(preceded by some number of
.Sq Ic \&!
arguments) is always true as it is a non-zero length string; in
.Pf non- Tn POSIX
mode, it tests if file descriptor 1 is a tty (i.e., the
.Ar fd
argument to the
.Fl t
test may be left out and defaults to 1).
.El
.Ss Command execution
After evaluation of command-line arguments, redirections, and parameter
assignments, the type of command is determined: a special built-in, a
function, a regular built-in, or the name of a file to execute found using the
.Ev PATH
parameter.
The checks are made in the above order.
Special built-in commands differ from other commands in that the
.Ev PATH
parameter is not used to find them, and an error during their execution can
cause a non-interactive shell to exit and parameter assignments that are
specified before the command are kept after the command completes.
Just to confuse things, if the
.Ic posix
option is turned off (see the
.Ic set
command below), some special commands are very special in that no field
splitting, file globbing, brace expansion, nor tilde expansion is performed
on arguments that look like assignments.
Regular built-in commands are different only in that the
.Ev PATH
parameter is not used to find them.
.Pp
The original
.Nm ksh
and
.Tn POSIX
differ somewhat in which commands are considered
special or regular:
.Pp
.Tn POSIX
special commands
.Pp
.Ic \&. , \&: , break , continue ,
.Ic eval , exec , exit , export ,
.Ic readonly , return , set , shift ,
.Ic trap , unset
.Pp
Additional ksh special commands
.Pp
.Ic builtin , times , typeset
.Pp
Very special commands
.Pq Pf non- Tn POSIX
.Pp
.Ic alias , readonly , set , typeset
.Pp
.Tn POSIX
regular commands
.Pp
.Ic alias , bg , cd , command ,
.Ic false , fc , fg , getopts ,
.Ic jobs , kill , read , true ,
.Ic umask , unalias , wait
.Pp
Additional ksh regular commands
.Pp
.Ic \&[ , echo , let , print ,
.Ic pwd , test , ulimit , whence
.Pp
In the future, the additional ksh special and regular commands may be treated
differently from the
.Tn POSIX
special and regular commands.
.Pp
Once the type of the command has been determined, any command-line parameter
assignments are performed and exported for the duration of the command.
.Pp
The following describes the special and regular built-in commands:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Ic \&. Ar file Op Ar arg1 ...
Execute the commands in
.Ar file
in the current environment.
The file is searched for in the directories of
.Ev PATH .
If arguments are given, the positional parameters may be used to access them
while
.Ar file
is being executed.
If no arguments are given, the positional parameters are
those of the environment the command is used in.
.It Ic \&: Op Ar ...
The null command.
Exit status is set to zero.
.It Xo Ic alias
.Op Fl d | Ic +-t Op Fl r
.Op Ic +-px
.Op Ic +-
.Oo Ar name
.Op Ns = Ns Ar value
.Ar ...
.Oc
.Xc
Without arguments,
.Ic alias
lists all aliases.
For any name without a value, the existing alias is listed.
Any name with a value defines an alias (see
.Sx Aliases
above).
.Pp
When listing aliases, one of two formats is used.
Normally, aliases are listed as
.Ar name Ns = Ns Ar value ,
where
.Ar value
is quoted.
If options were preceded with
.Ql +
or a lone
.Ql +
is given on the command line, only
.Ar name
is printed.
In addition, if the
.Fl p
option is used, each alias is prefixed with the string
.Dq alias\ \& .
.Pp
The
.Fl x
option sets
.Po Ic \&+x
\ clears
.Pc
the export attribute of an alias, or, if no names are given, lists the aliases
with the export attribute (exporting an alias has no effect).
.Pp
The
.Fl t
option indicates that tracked aliases are to be listed/set (values specified on
the command line are ignored for tracked aliases).
The
.Fl r
option indicates that all tracked aliases are to be reset.
.Pp
The
.Fl d
option causes directory aliases, which are used in tilde expansion, to be
listed or set (see
.Sx Tilde expansion
above).
.It Ic bg Op Ar job ...
Resume the specified stopped job(s) in the background.
If no jobs are specified,
.Ic %\&+
is assumed.
This command is only available on systems which support job control (see
.Sx Job control
below for more information).
.It Xo
.Ic bind Op Fl m
.Oo Ar key
.Op Ns = Ns Ar editing-command
.Ar ... Oc
.Xc
Set or view the current emacs command editing key bindings/macros (see
.Sx Emacs editing mode
below for a complete description).
.It Ic break Op Ar level
Exit the
.Ar level Ns th
inner-most
.Ic for ,
.Ic select ,
.Ic until
or
.Ic while
loop.
.Ar level
defaults to 1.
.It Ic builtin Ar command Op Ar arg1 ...
Execute the built-in command
.Ar command .
.It Xo Ic cd Op Fl LP
.Op Ar dir
.Xc
Set the working directory to
.Ar dir .
If the parameter
.Ev CDPATH
is set, it lists the search path for the directory containing
.Ar dir .
A
.Dv NULL
path means the current directory.
If
.Ar dir
is found in any component of the
.Ev CDPATH
search path other than the
.Dv NULL
path, the name of the new working directory will be written to standard output.
If
.Ar dir
is missing, the home directory
.Ev HOME
is used.
If
.Ar dir
is
.Dq - ,
the previous working directory is used (see
.Ev OLDPWD
parameter).
If the
.Fl L
option (logical path) is used or if the
.Ic physical
option (see the
.Ic set
command below) isn't set, references to
.Dq \&.\&.
in
.Ar dir
are relative to the path used to get to the directory.
If the
.Fl P
option (physical path) is used or if the
.Ic physical
option is set,
.Dq \&.\&.
is relative to the filesystem directory tree.
The
.Ev PWD
and
.Ev OLDPWD
parameters are updated to reflect the current and old working directory,
respectively.
.It Xo Ic cd Op Fl LP
.Ar old new
.Xc
The string
.Ar new
is substituted for
.Ar old
in the current directory, and the shell attempts to change to the new
directory.
.It Xo Ic command Op Fl pvV
.Ar cmd Op Ar arg1 ...
.Xc
If neither the
.Fl v
nor
.Fl V
options are given,
.Ar cmd
is executed exactly as if
.Ic command
had not been specified, with two exceptions.
First,
.Ar cmd
cannot be a shell function, and second, special built-in commands lose their
specialness (i.e., redirection and utility errors do not cause the shell to
exit, and command assignments are not permanent).
If the
.Fl p
option is given, a default search path is used instead of the current value of
.Ev PATH
(the actual value of the default path is system dependent: on
.Tn POSIX Ns ish
systems,
it is the value returned by
.Ic getconf CS_PATH ) .
.Pp
If the
.Fl v
option is given, instead of executing
.Ar cmd ,
information about what would be executed is given (and the same is done for
.Ar arg1 ... ) .
For special and regular built-in commands and functions, their names are simply
printed; for aliases, a command that defines them is printed; and for commands
found by searching the
.Ev PATH
parameter, the full path of the command is printed.
If no command is found
(i.e., the path search fails), nothing is printed and
.Ic command
exits with a non-zero status.
The
.Fl V
option is like the
.Fl v
option, except it is more verbose.
.It Ic continue Op Ar level
Jumps to the beginning of the
.Ar level Ns th
inner-most
.Ic for ,
.Ic select ,
.Ic until
or
.Ic while
loop.
.Ar level
defaults to 1.
.It Xo Ic echo Op Fl neE
.Op Ar arg ...
.Xc
Prints its arguments (separated by spaces) followed by a newline, to the
standard output.
The newline is suppressed if any of the arguments contain the
backslash sequence
.Ql \ec .
See the
.Ic print
command below for a list of other backslash sequences that are recognized.
.Pp
The options are provided for compatibility with
.Bx
shell scripts.
The
.Fl n
option suppresses the trailing newline,
.Fl e
enables backslash interpretation (a no-op, since this is normally done), and
.Fl E
suppresses backslash interpretation.
.It Ic eval Ar command ...
The arguments are concatenated (with spaces between them) to form a single
string which the shell then parses and executes in the current environment.
.It Xo Ic exec
.Op Ar command Op Ar arg ...
.Xc
The command is executed without forking, replacing the shell process.
.Pp
If no command is given except for I/O redirection, the I/O redirection is
permanent and the shell is
not replaced.
Any file descriptors greater than 2 which are opened or
.Xr dup 2 Ns 'd
in this way are not made available to other executed commands (i.e., commands
that are not built-in to the shell).
Note that the Bourne shell differs here;
it does pass these file descriptors on.
.It Ic exit Op Ar status
The shell exits with the specified exit status.
If
.Ar status
is not specified, the exit status is the current value of the
.Ic \&?
parameter.
.It Xo Ic export Op Fl p
.Op Ar parameter Ns Op \&= Ns Ar value
.Xc
Sets the export attribute of the named parameters.
Exported parameters are passed in the environment to executed commands.
If values are specified, the named parameters are also assigned.
.Pp
If no parameters are specified, the names of all parameters with the export
attribute are printed one per line, unless the
.Fl p
option is used, in which case
.Ic export
commands defining all exported parameters, including their values, are printed.
.It Ic false
A command that exits with a non-zero status.
.It Xo Ic fc
.Oo Fl e Ar editor No \&|
.Fl l Op Fl n Oc
.Op Fl r
.Op Ar first Op Ar last
.Xc
.Ar first
and
.Ar last
select commands from the history.
Commands can be selected by history number
or a string specifying the most recent command starting with that string.
The
.Fl l
option lists the command on stdout, and
.Fl n
inhibits the default command numbers.
The
.Fl r
option reverses the order of the list.
Without
.Fl l ,
the selected commands are edited by the editor specified with the
.Fl e
option, or if no
.Fl e
is specified, the editor specified by the
.Ev FCEDIT
parameter (if this parameter is not set,
.Pa /bin/ed
is used), and then executed by the shell.
.It Xo Ic fc
.Oo Fl e No \&- \&| Fl s Oc
.Op Fl g
.Op Ar old Ns = Ns Ar new
.Op Ar prefix
.Xc
Re-execute the selected command (the previous command by default) after
performing the optional substitution of
.Ar old
with
.Ar new .
If
.Fl g
is specified, all occurrences of
.Ar old
are replaced with
.Ar new .
This command is usually accessed with the predefined
.Ic alias r='fc -e -' .
.It Ic fg Op Ar job ...
Resume the specified job(s) in the foreground.
If no jobs are specified,
.Ic %\&+
is assumed.
This command is only available on systems which support job control (see
.Sx Job control
below for more information).
.It Xo Ic getopts Ar optstring name
.Op Ar arg ...
.Xc
Used by shell procedures to parse the specified arguments (or positional
parameters, if no arguments are given) and to check for legal options.
.Ar optstring
contains the option letters that
.Ic getopts
is to recognize.
If a letter is followed by a colon, the option is expected to
have an argument.
Options that do not take arguments may be grouped in a single argument.
If an option takes an argument and the option character is not the
last character of the argument it is found in, the remainder of the argument is
taken to be the option's argument; otherwise, the next argument is the option's
argument.
.Pp
Each time
.Ic getopts
is invoked, it places the next option in the shell parameter
.Ar name
and the index of the next argument to be processed in the shell parameter
.Ev OPTIND .
If the option was introduced with a
.Ql + ,
the option placed in
.Ar name
is prefixed with a
.Ql + .
When an option requires an argument,
.Ic getopts
places it in the shell parameter
.Ev OPTARG .
When an illegal option or a missing option argument is encountered, a question
mark or a colon is placed in
.Ar name
(indicating an illegal option or missing argument, respectively) and
.Ev OPTARG
is set to the option character that caused the problem.
If
.Ar optstring
does not begin with a colon, a question mark is placed in
.Ar name ,
.Ev OPTARG
is unset and an error message is printed to standard error.
.Pp
When the end of the options is encountered,
.Ic getopts
exits with a non-zero exit status.
Options end at the first (non-option
argument) argument that does not start with a
.Ql -
or when a
.Ql --
argument is encountered.
.Pp
Option parsing can be reset by setting
.Ev OPTIND
to 1 (this is done automatically whenever the shell or a shell procedure is
invoked).
.Pp
Warning: Changing the value of the shell parameter
.Ev OPTIND
to a value other than 1, or parsing different sets of arguments without
resetting
.Ev OPTIND
may lead to unexpected results.
.It Xo Ic hash Op Fl r
.Op Ar name ...
.Xc
Without arguments, any hashed executable command pathnames are listed.
The
.Fl r
option causes all hashed commands to be removed from the hash table.
Each
.Ar name
is searched as if it were a command name and added to the hash table if it is
an executable command.
.It Xo Ic jobs Op Fl lpn
.Op Ar job ...
.Xc
Display information about the specified job(s); if no jobs are specified, all
jobs are displayed.
The
.Fl n
option causes information to be displayed only for jobs that have changed
state since the last notification.
If the
.Fl l
option is used, the process ID of each process in a job is also listed.
The
.Fl p
option causes only the process group of each job to be printed.
See
.Sx Job control
below for the format of
.Ar job
and the displayed job.
.It Xo Ic kill
.Oo Fl s Ar signame No \&|
.Fl signum No \&| Fl signame Oc {
.Ar job No \&|
.Ar pid No \&|
.Ar pgrp No } Ar ...
.Xc
Send the specified signal to the specified jobs, process IDs, or process
groups.
If no signal is specified, the
.Dv TERM
signal is sent.
If a job is specified, the signal is sent to the job's process group.
See
.Sx Job control
below for the format of
.Ar job .
.It Ic kill -l Op Ar exit-status ...
Print the name of the signal that killed a process which exited with the
specified
.Ar exit-status Ns es.
If no arguments are specified, a list of all the signals, their numbers and
a short description of them are printed.
.It Ic let Op Ar expression ...
Each expression is evaluated (see
.Sx Arithmetic expressions
above).
If all expressions are successfully evaluated, the exit status is 0 (1)
if the last expression evaluated to non-zero (zero).
If an error occurs during
the parsing or evaluation of an expression, the exit status is greater than 1.
Since expressions may need to be quoted,
.Ic (( Ar expr Ic ))
is syntactic sugar for
.Ic let \&" Ns Ar expr Ns Ic \&" .
.It Xo Ic print
.Oo Fl nprsu Ns Ar n No \&|
.Fl R Op Fl en Oc
.Op Ar argument ...
.Xc
.Ic print
prints its arguments on the standard output, separated by spaces and
terminated with a newline.
The
.Fl n
option suppresses the newline.
By default, certain C escapes are translated.
These include
.Ql \eb ,
.Ql \ef ,
.Ql \en ,
.Ql \er ,
.Ql \et ,
.Ql \ev
and
.Ql \e0###
.Po
.Ql #
is an octal digit, of which there may be 0 to 3
.Pc .
.Ql \ec
is equivalent to using the
.Fl n
option.
.Ql \e
expansion may be inhibited with the
.Fl r
option.
The
.Fl s
option prints to the history file instead of standard output, the
.Fl u
option prints to file descriptor
.Ar n
.Po
.Ar n
defaults to 1 if omitted
.Pc ,
and the
.Fl p
option prints to the co-process (see
.Sx Co-processes
above).
.Pp
The
.Fl R
option is used to emulate, to some degree, the
.Bx
.Xr echo
command, which does not process
.Ql \e
sequences unless the
.Fl e
option is given.
As above, the
.Fl n
option suppresses the trailing newline.
.It Ic pwd Op Fl LP
Print the present working directory.
If the
.Fl L
option is used or if the
.Ic physical
option (see the
.Ic set
command below) isn't set, the logical path is printed (i.e., the path used to
.Ic cd
to the current directory).
If the
.Fl P
option (physical path) is used or if the
.Ic physical
option is set, the path determined from the filesystem (by following
.Dq \&.\&.
directories to the root directory) is printed.
.It Xo Ic read Oo Fl prsu Ns Ar n
.Oc Op Ar parameter ...
.Xc
Reads a line of input from the standard input, separates the line into fields
using the
.Ev IFS
parameter (see
.Sx Substitution
above), and assigns each field to the specified parameters.
If there are more parameters than fields, the extra parameters are set to
.Dv NULL ,
or alternatively, if there are more fields than parameters, the last parameter
is assigned the remaining fields (inclusive of any separating spaces).
If no parameters are specified, the
.Ev REPLY
parameter is used.
If the input line ends in a backslash and the
.Fl r
option was not used, the backslash and the newline are stripped and more input
is read.
If no input is read,
.Ic read
exits with a non-zero status.
.Pp
The first parameter may have a question mark and a string appended to it, in
which case the string is used as a prompt (printed to standard error before
any input is read) if the input is a tty (e.g.,
.Ic read nfoo?'number of foos: ' ) .
.Pp
The
.Fl u Ns Ar n
and
.Fl p
options cause input to be read from file descriptor
.Ar n
or the current co-process (see
.Sx Co-processes
above for comments on this), respectively.
If the
.Fl s
option is used, input is saved to the history file.
.It Xo Ic readonly Op Fl p
.Oo Ar parameter
.Op Ns = Ns Ar value
.Ar ... Oc
.Xc
Sets the read-only attribute of the named parameters.
If values are given,
parameters are set to them before setting the attribute.
Once a parameter is
made read-only, it cannot be unset and its value cannot be changed.
.Pp
If no parameters are specified, the names of all parameters with the read-only
attribute are printed one per line, unless the
.Fl p
option is used, in which case
.Ic readonly
commands defining all read-only parameters, including their values, are
printed.
.It Ic return Op Ar status
Returns from a function or
.Ic \&.
script, with exit status
.Ar status .
If no
.Ar status
is given, the exit status of the last executed command is used.
If used outside of a function or
.Ic \&.
script, it has the same effect as
.Ic exit .
Note that
.Nm pdksh
treats both profile and
.Ev ENV
files as
.Ic \&.
scripts, while the original Korn shell only treats profiles as
.Ic \&.
scripts.
.It Xo Ic set Op Ic +-abCefhkmnpsuvxX
.Op Ic +-o Ar option
.Op Ic +-A Ar name
.Op Fl \&-
.Op Ar arg ...
.Xc
The
.Ic set
command can be used to set
.Pq Ic \&-
or clear
.Pq Ic \&+
shell options, set the positional parameters, or set an array parameter.
Options can be changed using the
.Ic \&+ Ns Fl o Ar option
syntax, where
.Ar option
is the long name of an option, or using the
.Ic \&+\&- Ns Ar letter
syntax, where
.Ar letter
is the option's single letter name (not all options have a single letter name).
The following table lists both option letters (if they exist) and long names
along with a description of what the option does:
.Bl -tag -width 15n
.It Fl A
Sets the elements of the array parameter
.Ar name
to
.Ar arg ... .
If
.Fl A
is used, the array is reset (i.e., emptied) first; if
.Ic \&+A
is used, the first N elements are set (where N is the number of
.Ar arg Ns s ) ,
the rest are left untouched.
.It Fl a Ic allexport
All new parameters are created with the export attribute.
.It Fl b Ic notify
Print job notification messages asynchronously, instead of just before the
prompt.
Only used if job control is enabled
.Pq Fl m .
.It Fl C Ic noclobber
Prevent
.Ic \&>
redirection from overwriting existing files
.Po
.Ic \&>\&|
must be used to force an overwrite
.Pc .
.It Fl e Ic errexit
Exit (after executing the
.Dv ERR
trap) as soon as an error occurs or a command fails (i.e., exits with a
non-zero status).
This does not apply to commands whose exit status is
explicitly tested by a shell construct such as
.Ic if ,
.Ic until ,
.Ic while ,
.Ic \&&\&&
or
.Ic \&|\&|
statements.
.It Fl f Ic noglob
Do not expand file name patterns.
.It Fl h Ic trackall
Create tracked aliases for all executed commands (see
.Sx Aliases
above).
Enabled by default for non-interactive shells.
.It Fl i Ic interactive
Enable interactive mode.
This can only be set/unset when the shell is invoked.
.It Fl k Ic keyword
Parameter assignments are recognized anywhere in a command.
.It Fl l Ic login
The shell is a login shell.
This can only be set/unset when the shell is invoked (see
.Sx Shell startup
above).
.It Fl m Ic monitor
Enable job control (default for interactive shells).
.It Fl n lc noexec
Do not execute any commands.
Useful for checking the syntax of scripts
(ignored if interactive).
.It Fl p Ic privileged
Set automatically if, when the shell starts, the read UID or GID does not match
the effective UID (EUID) or GID (EGID), respectively.
See
.Sx Shell startup
above for a description of what this means.
.It Fl r Ic restricted
Enable restricted mode.
This option can only be used when the shell is invoked.
See
.Sx Shell startup
above for a description of what this means.
.It Fl s Ic stdin
If used where the shell is invoked, commands are read from standard input.
Set automatically if the shell is invoked with no arguments.
.Pp
When
.Fl s
is used with the
.Ic set
command it causes the specified arguments to be sorted before assigning them to
the positional parameters (or to array
.Ar name ,
if
.Fl A
is used).
.It Fl u Ic nounset
Referencing of an unset parameter is treated as an error, unless one of the
.Ql - ,
.Ql +
or
.Ql =
modifiers is used.
.It Fl v Ic verbose
Write shell input to standard error as it is read.
.It Fl x Ic xtrace
Print commands and parameter assignments when they are executed, preceded by
the value of
.Ev PS4 .
.It Fl X Ic markdirs
Mark directories with a trailing
.Ql /
during file name generation.
.It Ic bgnice
Background jobs are run with lower priority.
.It Ic braceexpand
Enable brace expansion (a.k.a., alternation).
.It Ic emacs
Enable BRL emacs-like command-line editing (interactive shells only); see
.Sx Emacs editing mode .
.It Ic emacs-usemeta
In emacs command-line editing, use the 8th bit as meta (^[) prefix.
This is the default.
.It Ic gmacs
Enable gmacs-like command-line editing (interactive shells only).
Currently identical to emacs editing except that transpose (^T) acts slightly
differently.
.It Ic ignoreeof
The shell will not (easily) exit when end-of-file is read;
.Ic exit
must be used.
To avoid infinite loops, the shell will exit if
.Dv EOF
is read 13 times in a row.
.It Ic nohup
Do not kill running jobs with a
.Dv SIGHUP
signal when a login shell exists.
Currently set by default, but this will
change in the future to be compatible with the original Korn shell (which
doesn't have this option, but does send the
.Dv SIGHUP
signal).
.It Ic nolog
No effect.
In the original Korn shell, this prevents function definitions from
being stored in the history file.
.It Ic physical
Causes the
.Ic cd
and
.Ic pwd
commands to use
.Dq physical
(i.e., the filesystem's)
.Dq \&.\&.
directories instead of
.Dq logical
directories (i.e., the shell handles
.Dq \&.\&. ,
which allows the user to be oblivious of symbolic links to directories).
Clear by default.
Note that setting this option does not affect the current value of the
.Ev PWD
parameter; only the
.Ic cd
command changes
.Ev PWD .
See the
.Ic cd
and
.Ic pwd
commands above for more details.
.It Ic posix
Enable
.Tn POSIX
mode.
See
.Sx POSIX mode
above.
.It Ic vi
Enable vi-like command-line editing (interactive shells only).
.It Ic viraw
No effect.
In the original Korn shell, unless
.Ic viraw
was set, the vi command-line mode would let the tty driver do the work until
.Tn ESC
(^[) was entered.
.Nm pdksh
is always in viraw mode.
.It Ic vi-esccomplete
In vi command-line editing, do command and file name completion when escape
(^[) is entered in command mode.
.It Ic vi-show8
Prefix characters with the eighth bit set with
.Dq M\&- .
If this option is not set, characters in the range 128\-160 are printed as is,
which may cause problems.
.It Ic vi-tabcomplete
In vi command-line editing, do command and file name completion when tab (^I)
is entered in insert mode.
This is the default.
.El
.Pp
These options can also be used upon invocation of the shell.
The current set of
options (with single letter names) can be found in the parameter
.Dv \&- .
.Ic set Fl o
with no option name will list all the options and whether each is on or off;
.Ic set +o
will print the long names of all options that are currently on.
.Pp
Remaining arguments, if any, are positional parameters and are assigned, in
order, to the positional parameters (i.e.
.Va $1 , $2 ,
etc.).
If options end with
.Ql --
and there are no remaining arguments, all positional parameters are cleared.
If no options or arguments are given, the values of all names are printed.
For unknown historical reasons, a lone
.Ql -
option is treated specially -- it clears both the
.Fl x
and
.Fl v
options.
.It Ic shift Op Ar number
The positional parameters
.Ar number Ns +1 ,
.Ar number Ns +2 ,
etc. are renamed to
.Dq 1 ,
.Dq 2 ,
etc.
.Ar number
defaults to 1.
.It Ic test Ar expression
.It Ic \&[ Ar expression Ic \&]
.Ic test
evaluates the
.Ar expression
and returns zero status if true, 1 if false, or greater than 1 if there
was an error.
It is normally used as the condition command of
.Ic if
and
.Ic while
statements.
The following basic expressions are available:
.Bl -tag -width 17n
.It Ar str
.Ar str
has non-zero length.
Note that there is the potential for problems if
.Ar str
turns out to be an operator (e.g.,
.Fl r ) .
It is generally better to use a test like
.Sm off
.Ic \&[\ X\&" Ar str Ic \&" Ic \ \&]
.Sm on
instead (double quotes are used in case
.Ar str
contains spaces or file globbing characters).
.It Fl r Ar file
.Ar file
exists and is readable.
.It Fl w Ar file
.Ar file
exists and is writable.
.It Fl x Ar file
.Ar file
exists and is executable.
.It Fl a Ar file
.Ar file
exists.
.It Fl e Ar file
.Ar file
exists.
.It Fl f Ar file
.Ar file
is a regular file.
.It Fl d Ar file
.Ar file
is a directory.
.It Fl c Ar file
.Ar file
is a character special device.
.It Fl b Ar file
.Ar file
is a block special device.
.It Fl p Ar file
.Ar file
is a named pipe.
.It Fl u Ar file
.Ar file Ns 's
mode has setuid bit set.
.It Fl g Ar file
.Ar file Ns 's
mode has setgid bit set.
.It Fl k Ar file
.Ar file Ns 's
mode has sticky bit set.
.It Fl s Ar file
.Ar file
is not empty.
.It Fl O Ar file
.Ar file Ns 's
owner is the shell's effective user ID.
.It Fl G Ar file
.Ar file Ns 's
group is the shell's effective group ID.
.It Fl h Ar file
.Ar file
is a symbolic link.
.It Fl H Ar file
.Ar file
is a context dependent directory (only useful on HP-UX).
.It Fl L Ar file
.Ar file
is a symbolic link.
.It Fl S Ar file
.Ar file
is a socket.
.It Fl o Ar option
Shell
.Ar option
is set (see the
.Ic set
command above for a list of options).
As a non-standard extension, if the option starts with a
.Ql \&! ,
the test is negated; the test always fails if
.Ar option
doesn't exist (thus
.Ic \&[ -o Ar foo
.Ic -o -o \&! Ns Ar foo Ic \&]
returns true if and only if option
.Ar foo
exists).
.It Ar file Fl nt Ar file
first
.Ar file
is newer than second
.Ar file
or first
.Ar file
exists and the second
.Ar file
does not.
.It Ar file Fl ot Ar file
first
.Ar file
is older than second
.Ar file
or second
.Ar file
exists and the first
.Ar file
does not.
.It Ar file Fl ef Ar file
first
.Ar file
is the same file as second
.Ar file .
.It Fl t Op Ar fd
File descriptor
.Ar fd
is a tty device.
If the
.Ic posix
option is not set,
.Ar fd
may be left out, in which case it is taken to be 1 (the behaviour differs due
to the special
.Tn POSIX
rules described below).
.It Ar string
.Ar string
is not empty.
.It Fl z Ar string
.Ar string
is empty.
.It Fl n Ar string
.Ar string
is not empty.
.It Ar string No = Ar string
Strings are equal.
.It Ar string No == Ar string
Strings are equal.
.It Ar string No \&!= Ar string
Strings are not equal.
.It Ar number Fl eq Ar number
Numbers compare equal.
.It Ar number Fl ne Ar number
Numbers compare not equal.
.It Ar number Fl ge Ar number
Numbers compare greater than or equal.
.It Ar number Fl gt Ar number
Numbers compare greater than.
.It Ar number Fl le Ar number
Numbers compare less than or equal.
.It Ar number Fl \&lt Ar number
Numbers compare less than.
.El
.Pp
The above basic expressions, in which unary operators have precedence over
binary operators, may be combined with the following operators (listed in
increasing order of precedence):
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width "expr -o expr" -compact
.It Ar expr Fl o Ar expr
Logical
.Tn OR .
.It Ar expr Fl a Ar expr
Logical
.Tn AND .
.It Ic \&! Ar expr
Logical
.Tn NOT .
.It Ic \&( Ar expr Ic \&)
Grouping.
.El
.Pp
On operating systems not supporting
.Pa /dev/fd/ Ns Ar n
devices (where
.Ar n
is a file descriptor number), the
.Ic test
command will attempt to fake it for all tests that operate on files (except the
.Fl e
test).
For example,
.Ic \&[ -w /dev/fd/2 \&]
tests if file descriptor 2 is writable.
.Pp
Note that some special rules are applied (courtesy of
.Tn POSIX )
if the number of
arguments to
.Ic test
or
.Ic \&[ ... \&]
is less than five; if leading
.Ql \&!
arguments can be stripped such that only one argument remains then a string
length test is performed (again, even if the argument is a unary operator); if
leading
.Ql \&!
arguments can be stripped such that three arguments remain and the second
argument is a binary operator, then the binary operation is performed (even
if the first argument is a unary operator, including an unstripped
.Ql \&! ) .
.Pp
.Sy Note:
A common mistake is to use
.Ic if \&[ $foo = bar \&]
which fails if parameter
.Ic foo
is
.Dv NULL
or unset, if it has embedded spaces (i.e.,
.Ev IFS
characters), or if it is a unary operator like
.Sq Ic \&!
or
.Sq Fl n .
Use tests like
.Ic if \&[ \&"X$foo\&" = Xbar \&]
instead.
.It Xo Ic time Op Fl p
.Op Ar pipeline
.Xc
If a
.Ar pipeline
is given, the times used to execute the pipeline are reported.
If no pipeline
is given, then the user and system time used by the shell itself, and all the
commands it has run since it was started, are reported.
The times reported are the real time (elapsed time from start to finish),
the user CPU time (time spent running in user mode), and the system CPU time
(time spent running in kernel mode).
Times are reported to standard error; the format of the output is:
.Pp
.Dl 0.00s real    0.00s user    0.00s system
.Pp
unless the
.Fl p
option is given (only possible if
.Ar pipeline
is a simple command), in which case the output is slightly longer:
.Pp
.Dl real   0.00
.Dl user   0.00
.Dl sys    0.00
.Pp
(the number of digits after the decimal may vary from system to system).
Note
that simple redirections of standard error do not effect the output of the time
command:
.Pp
.Dl time sleep 1 2> afile
.Dl { time sleep 1; } 2> afile
.Pp
Times for the first command do not go to
.Dq afile ,
but those of the second command do.
.It Ic times
Print the accumulated user and system times used by the shell and by processes
which have exited that the shell started.
.It Ic trap Op Ar handler signal ...
Sets trap handler that is to be executed when any of the specified signals are
received.
.Ar handler
is either a
.Dv NULL
string, indicating the signals are to be ignored, a minus sign
.Pq Sq \&- ,
indicating that the default action is to be taken for the signals (see
.Xr signal 3 )
or a string containing shell commands to be evaluated and executed at the first
opportunity (i.e., when the current command completes, or before printing the
next
.Ev PS1
prompt) after receipt of one of the signals.
.Ar signal
is the name of a signal (e.g.,
.Dv PIPE
or
.Dv ALRM )
or the number of the signal (see the
.Ic kill Fl l
command above).
There are two special signals:
.Dv EXIT
(also known as 0), which is executed when the shell is about to exit, and
.Dv ERR ,
which is executed after an error occurs (an error is something that would cause
the shell to exit if the
.Fl e
or
.Ic errexit
option were see \(em see the
.Ic set
command above).
.Dv EXIT
handlers are executed in the environment of the last executed command.
Note
that for non-interactive shells, the trap handler cannot be changed for signals
that were ignored when the shell started.
.Pp
With no arguments,
.Ic trap
lists, as a series of
.Ic trap
commands, the current state of the traps that have been set since the shell
started.
Note that the output of
.Ic trap
can not be usefully piped to another process (an artifact of the fact that
traps are cleared when subprocesses are created).
.Pp
The original Korn shell's
.Dv DEBUG
trap and the handling of
.Dv ERR
and
.Dv EXIT
traps in functions are not yet implemented.
.It Ic true
A command that exits with a zero value.
.It Xo Ic typeset
.Oo Op Ic +-Ulprtux
.Op Fl L Ns Op Ar n
.Op Fl R Ns Op Ar n
.Op Fl Z Ns Op Ar n
.Op Fl i Ns Op Ar n
.No \&| Fl f Op Fl tux Oc
.Oo Ar name
.Op Ns = Ns Ar value
.Ar ... Oc
.Xc
Display or set parameter attributes.
With no
.Ar name
arguments, parameter attributes are displayed; if no options are used, the
current attributes of all parameters are printed as
.Ic typeset
commands; if an option is given (or
.Ql -
with no option letter), all parameters and their values with the specified
attributes are printed; if options are introduced with
.Ql + ,
parameter values are not printed.
.Pp
If
.Ar name
arguments are given, the attributes of the named parameters are set
.Pq Ic \&-
or cleared
.Pq Ic \&+ .
Values for parameters may optionally be specified.
If
.Ic typeset
is used inside a function, any newly created parameters are local to the
function.
.Pp
When
.Fl f
is used,
.Ic typeset
operates on the attributes of functions.
As with parameters, if no
.Ar name Ns s
are given, functions are listed with their values (i.e., definitions) unless
options are introduced with
.Ql + ,
in which case only the function names are reported.
.Bl -tag -width 3n
.It Fl L Ns Ar n
Left justify attribute.
.Ar n
specifies the field width.
If
.Ar n
is not specified, the current width of a parameter (or the width of its first
assigned value) is used.
Leading whitespace (and zeros, if used with the
.Fl Z
option) is stripped.
If necessary, values are either truncated or space padded
to fit the field width.
.It Fl R Ns Ar n
Right justify attribute.
.Ar n
specifies the field width.
If
.Ar n
is not specified, the current width of a parameter (or the width of its first
assigned value) is used.
Trailing whitespace is stripped.
If necessary, values are either stripped of leading characters or space
padded to make them fit the field width.
.It Fl Z Ns Ar n
Zero fill attribute.
If not combined with
.Fl L ,
this is the same as
.Fl R ,
except zero padding is used instead of space padding.
.It Fl i Ns Ar n
Integer attribute.
.Ar n
specifies the base to use when displaying the integer (if not specified, the
base given in the first assignment is used).
Parameters with this attribute may
be assigned values containing arithmetic expressions.
.It Fl U
Unsigned integer attribute.
Integers are printed as unsigned values (only
useful when combined with the
.Fl i
option).
This option is not in the original Korn shell.
.It Fl f
Function mode.
Display or set functions and their attributes, instead of parameters.
.It Fl l
Lower case attribute.
All upper case characters in values are converted to lower case.
(In the original Korn shell, this parameter meant
.Dq long integer
when used with the
.Fl i
option.)
.It Fl p
Print complete
.Ic typeset
commands that can be used to re-create the attributes (but not the values) of
parameters.
This is the default action (option exists for ksh93 compatibility).
.It Fl r
Read-only attribute.
Parameters with this attribute may not be assigned to or unset.
Once this attribute is set, it can not be turned off.
.It Fl t
Tag attribute.
Has no meaning to the shell; provided for application use.
.Pp
For functions,
.Fl t
is the trace attribute.
When functions with the trace attribute are executed, the
.Ic xtrace
.Pq Fl x
shell option is temporarily turned on.
.It Fl u
Upper case attribute.
All lower case characters in values are converted to upper case.
(In the original Korn shell, this parameter meant
.Dq unsigned integer
when used with the
.Fl i
option, which meant upper case letters would never be used for bases greater
than 10.
See the
.Fl U
option.)
.Pp
For functions,
.Fl u
is the undefined attribute.
See
.Sx Functions
above for the implications of this.
.It Fl x
Export attribute.
Parameters (or functions) are placed in the environment of
any executed commands.
Exported functions are not yet implemented.
.El
.It Xo Ic ulimit Op Fl acdfHlmnpsStv
.Op Ar value
.Xc
Display or set process limits.
If no options are used, the file size limit
.Pq Fl f
is assumed.
.Ar value ,
if specified, may be either an arithmetic expression or the word
.Dq unlimited .
The limits affect the shell and any processes created by the shell after a
limit is imposed.
Note that some systems may not allow limits to be increased
once they are set.
Also note that the types of limits available are system
dependent -- some systems have only the
.Fl f
limit.
.Bl -tag -width 5n
.It Fl a
Displays all limits; unless
.Fl H
is used, soft limits are displayed.
.It Fl H
Set the hard limit only (default is to set both hard and soft limits).
.It Fl S
Set the soft limit only (default is to set both hard and soft limits).
.It Fl c Ar n
Impose a size limit of
.Ar n
blocks on the size of core dumps.
.It Fl d Ar n
Impose a size limit of
.Ar n
kibibytes on the size of the data area.
.It Fl f Ar n
Impose a size limit of
.Ar n
blocks on files written by the shell and its child processes (files of any
size may be read).
.It Fl l Ar n
Impose a limit of
.Ar n
kibibytes on the amount of locked (wired) physical memory.
.It Fl m Ar n
Impose a limit of
.Ar n
kibibytes on the amount of physical memory used.
.It Fl n Ar n
Impose a limit of
.Ar n
file descriptors that can be open at once.
.It Fl p Ar n
Impose a limit of
.Ar n
processes that can be run by the user at any one time.
.It Fl s Ar n
Impose a size limit of
.Ar n
kibibytes on the size of the stack area.
.It Fl t Ar n
Impose a time limit of
.Ar n
.Tn CPU
seconds to be used by each process.
.It Fl T Ar n
Impose a real time limit of
.Ar n
.Tn human
seconds to be used by each process.
.It Fl v Ar n
Impose a limit of
.Ar n
kibibytes on the amount of virtual memory used.
.El
.Pp
As far as
.Ic ulimit
is concerned, a block is 512 bytes.
.It Xo Ic umask Op Fl S
.Op Ar mask
.Xc
Display or set the file permission creation mask, or umask (see
.Xr umask 2 ) .
If the
.Fl S
option is used, the mask displayed or set is symbolic; otherwise, it is an
octal number.
.Pp
Symbolic masks are like those used by
.Xr chmod 1 .
When used, they describe what permissions may be made available (as opposed to
octal masks in which a set bit means the corresponding bit is to be cleared).
For example,
.Dq ug=rwx,o=
sets the mask so files will not be readable, writable or executable by
.Dq others ,
and is equivalent (on most systems) to the octal mask
.Dq 007 .
.It Xo Ic unalias Op Fl adt
.Op Ar name1 ...
.Xc
The aliases for the given names are removed.
If the
.Fl a
option is used, all aliases are removed.
If the
.Fl t
or
.Fl d
options are used, the indicated operations are carried out on tracked or
directory aliases, respectively.
.It Xo Ic unset Op Fl fv
.Ar parameter ...
.Xc
Unset the named parameters
.Po
.Fl v ,
the default
.Pc
or functions
.Pq Fl f .
The exit status is non-zero if any of the parameters were already unset, zero
otherwise.
.It Ic wait Op Ar job ...
Wait for the specified job(s) to finish.
The exit status of
.Ic wait
is that of the last specified job; if the last job is killed by a signal, the
exit status is 128 + the number of the signal (see
.Ic kill -l Ar exit-status
above); if the last specified job can't be found (because it never existed, or
had already finished), the exit status of
.Ic wait
is 127.
See
.Sx Job control
below for the format of
.Ar job .
.Ic wait
will return if a signal for which a trap has been set is received, or if a
.Dv SIGHUP ,
.Dv SIGINT
or
.Dv SIGQUIT
signal is received.
.Pp
If no jobs are specified,
.Ic wait
waits for all currently running jobs (if any) to finish and exits with a zero
status.
If job monitoring is enabled, the completion status of jobs is printed
(this is not the case when jobs are explicitly specified).
.It Xo Ic whence 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.
With the
.Fl v
option,
.Ic whence
is the same as
.Ic command Fl V .
Note that for
.Ic whence ,
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.
.El
.Ss Job control
Job control refers to the shell's ability to monitor and control jobs, which
are processes or groups of processes created for commands or pipelines.
At a minimum, the shell keeps track of the status of the background (i.e.,
asynchronous) jobs that currently exist; this information can be displayed
using the
.Ic jobs
commands.
If job control is fully enabled (using
.Ic set Fl m
or
.Ic set Fl o Ic monitor ) ,
as it is for interactive shells, the processes of a job are placed in their
own process group.
Foreground jobs can be stopped by typing the suspend
character from the terminal (normally ^Z), jobs can be restarted in either the
foreground or background using the
.Ic fg
and
.Ic bg
commands, and the state of the terminal is saved or restored when a foreground
job is stopped or restarted, respectively.
.Pp
Note that only commands that create processes (e.g., asynchronous commands,
subshell commands, and non-built-in, non-function commands) can be stopped;
commands like
.Ic read
cannot be.
.Pp
When a job is created, it is assigned a job number.
For interactive shells, this number is printed inside
.Dq \&[..\&] ,
followed by the process IDs of the processes in the job when an asynchronous
command is run.
A job may be referred to in the
.Ic bg ,
.Ic fg ,
.Ic jobs ,
.Ic kill
and
.Ic wait
commands either by the process ID of the last process in the command pipeline
(as stored in the $! parameter) or by prefixing the job number with a percent
sign
.Pq Sq % .
Other percent sequences can also be used to refer to jobs:
.Bl -tag -width 10n
.It Ic %\&+
The most recently stopped job, or, if there are no stopped jobs, the oldest
running job.
.It Ic %% , %
Same as
.Ic %\&+ .
.It Ic %\&-
The job that would be the
.Ic %\&+
job if the latter did not exist.
.It Ic % Ns Ar n
The job with job number
.Ar n .
.It Ic %\&? Ns Ar string
The job containing the string
.Ar string
(an error occurs if multiple jobs are matched).
.It Ic % Ns Ar string
The job starting with string
.Ar string
(an error occurs if multiple jobs are matched).
.El
.Pp
When a job changes state (e.g., a background job finishes or foreground job is
stopped), the shell prints the following status information:
.Pp
.Ic \&[ Ar number Ic \&] Ar flag status command
.Pp
where
.Bl -tag -width "status"
.It Ar number
is the job number of the job.
.It Ar flag
is the
.Ql +
or
.Ql -
character if the job is the
.Ic %\&+ or
.Ic %\&-
job, respectively, or space if it is neither.
.It Ar status
indicates the current state of the job and can be:
.Bl -tag -width "Running"
.It Cm Running
The job has neither stopped nor exited (note that running does not necessarily
mean consuming
.Tn CPU
time -- the process could be blocked waiting for some
event).
.It Cm Done Op Ar number
The job exited.
.Ar number
is the exit status of the job, which is omitted if the status is zero.
.It Cm Stopped Op Ar signal
The job was stopped by the indicated
.Ar signal
(if no signal is given, the job was stopped by
.Dv SIGTSTP ) .
.It Ar signal-description Op Dq core dumped
The job was killed by a signal (e.g., memory fault, hangup, etc.; use
.Ic kill -l
for a list of signal descriptions).
The
.Dq core dumped
message indicates the process created a core file.
.El
.It Ar command
is the command that created the process.
If there are multiple processes in
the job, each process will have a line showing its
.Ar command
and possibly its
.Ar status ,
if it is different from the status of the previous process.
.El
.Pp
When an attempt is made to exit the shell while there are jobs in the stopped
state, the shell warns the user that there are stopped jobs and does not exit.
If another attempt is immediately made to exit the shell, the stopped jobs are
sent a
.Dv SIGHUP
signal and the shell exits.
Similarly, if the
.Ic nohup
option is not set and there are running jobs when an attempt is made to exit
a login shell, the shell warns the user and does not exit.
If another attempt
is immediately made to exit the shell, the running jobs are sent a
.Dv SIGHUP
signal and the shell exits.
.Ss Interactive input line editing
The shell supports three modes of reading command lines from a tty in an
interactive session, which is controlled by the
.Ic emacs ,
.Ic gmacs
and
.Ic vi
options (at most one of these can be set at once).
If none of these options are enabled, the shell simply reads lines using the
normal tty driver.
If the
.Ic emacs
or
.Ic gmacs
option is set, the shell allows emacs-like editing of the command; similarly,
if the
.Ic vi
option is set, the shell allows vi-like editing of the command.
These modes are described in detail in the following sections.
.Pp
In these editing modes, if a line is longer than the screen width (see
.Ev COLUMNS
parameter),
a
.Ql > ,
.Ql +
or
.Ql <
character is displayed in the last column indicating that there are more
characters after, before and after, or before the current position,
respectively.
The line is scrolled horizontally as necessary.
.Ss Emacs editing mode
When the
.Ic emacs
option is set, interactive input line editing is enabled.
Warning: This mode is
slightly different from the emacs mode in the original Korn shell.
By default, the eight bit is used as Meta, but this can be turned
off by entering
.Ic set +o emacs-usemeta ,
contained in the default
.Mx 6
.Pa /etc/profile .
.Pp
In the emacs mode, various editing commands
(typically bound to one or more control characters) cause immediate actions
without waiting for a newline.
Several editing commands are bound to particular
control characters when the shell is invoked; these binding can be changed
using the following commands:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Ic bind
The current bindings are listed.
.It Xo Ic bind
.Ar string Ns = Ns Op Ar editing-command
.Xc
The specified editing command is bound to the given
.Ar string ,
which should consist of a control character (which may be written using caret
notation, i.e., ^X), optionally preceded by one of the two prefix characters.
Future input of the
.Ar string
will cause the editing command to be immediately invoked.
Note that although only two prefix characters (usually
.Tn ESC
and ^X) are supported, some
multi-character sequences can be supported.
The following binds the arrow keys on an
.Tn ANSI
terminal, or xterm (these are in the default bindings).
Of course some escape sequences won't work out quite this nicely.
.Pp
.Bl -item -compact
.It
.Ic bind '^[['=prefix-2
.It
.Ic bind '^XA'=up-history
.It
.Ic bind '^XB'=down-history
.It
.Ic bind '^XC'=forward-char
.It
.Ic bind '^XD'=backward-char
.El
.It Ic bind Fl l
Lists the names of the functions to which keys may be bound.
.It Xo Ic bind Fl m
.Sm off
.Ar string No = Op Ar substitute
.Sm on
.Xc
The specified input
.Ar string
will afterwards be immediately replaced by the given
.Ar substitute
string, which may contain editing commands.
.El
.Pp
The following is a list of available editing commands.
Each description starts with the name of the command, an
.Ar n
(if the command can be prefixed with a count), and any keys the command is
bound to by default (written using caret notation, i.e.,
.Tn "ASCII ESC"
character is
written as ^[).
A count prefix for a command is entered using the sequence
.Ic ^\&[ Ns Ar n ,
where
.Ar n
is a sequence of 1 or more digits; unless otherwise specified, if a count is
omitted, it defaults to 1.
Note that editing command names are used only with the
.Ic bind
command.
Furthermore, many editing commands are useful only on terminals with
a visible cursor.
The default bindings were chosen to resemble corresponding
Emacs key bindings.
The users' tty characters (e.g.,
.Dv ERASE )
are bound to
reasonable substitutes and override the default bindings.
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Ic abort ^G
Useful as a response to a request for a
.Ic search-history
pattern in order to abort the search.
.It Ic auto-insert Ar n
Simply causes the character to appear as literal input.
Most ordinary characters are bound to this.
.It Ic backward-char Ar n Ic ^B
Moves the cursor backward
.Ar n
characters.
.It Ic backward-word Ar n Ic ^[B
Moves the cursor backward to the beginning of the word; words consist of
alphanumerics, underscore
.Pq Sq _
and dollar sign
.Pq Sq \&$
characters.
.It Ic beginning-of-history ^[<
Moves to the beginning of the history.
.It Ic beginning-of-line ^A
Moves the cursor to the beginning of the edited input line.
.It Ic capitalize-word Ar n Ic ^[c , ^[C
Uppercase the first character in the next
.Ar n
words, leaving the cursor past the end of the last word.
.Pp
If the current line does not being with a comment character, one is added at
the beginning of the line and the line is entered (as if return had been
pressed); otherwise, the existing comment characters are removed and the cursor
is placed at the beginning of the line.
.It Ic complete ^[^[
.It Ic complete ^I
Automatically completes as much as is unique of the command name or the file
name containing the cursor.
If the entire remaining command or file name is
unique, a space is printed after its completion, unless it is a directory name
in which case
.Ql /
is appended.
If there is no command or file name with the current partial word
as its prefix, a bell character is output (usually causing a beep to be
sounded).
Currently being considered a bug in
.Nm ,
if the file name contains \fB[\fR or \fB]\fR, it cannot be completed, even if
the character is escaped, in \fBemacs\fR mode.
This surprisingly works in \fBvi\fR mode; please submit a fix.
.It Ic complete-command ^X^[
Automatically completes as much as is unique of the command name having the
partial word up to the cursor as its prefix, as in the
.Ic complete
command above.
.It Ic complete-file ^[^X
Automatically completes as much as is unique of the file name having the
partial word up to the cursor as its prefix, as in the
.Ic complete
command described above.
.It Ic complete-list ^[=
List the possible completions for the current word.
.It Xo Ic delete-char-backward Ar n Ic ERASE ,
.Ic ^? , ^H
.Xc
Deletes
.Ar n
characters before the cursor.
.It Ic delete-char-forward Ar n
Deletes
.Ar n
characters after the cursor.
.It Xo Ic delete-word-backward Ar n Ic ^[ERASE ,
.Ic ^[^? , ^[^H , ^[h
.Xc
Deletes
.Ar n
words before the cursor.
.It Ic delete-word-forward Ar n Ic ^[d
Deletes characters after the cursor up to the end of
.Ar n
words.
.It Ic down-history Ar n Ic ^N
Scrolls the history buffer forward
.Ar n
lines (later).
Each input line originally starts just after the last entry
in the history buffer, so
.Ic down-history
is not useful until either
.Ic search-history
or
.Ic up-history
has been performed.
.It Ic downcase-word Ar n Ic ^[L , ^[l
Lowercases the next
.Ar n
words.
.It Ic end-of-history ^[>
Moves to the end of the history.
.It Ic end-of-line ^E
Moves the cursor to the end of the input line.
.It Ic eot ^_
Acts as an end-of-file; this is useful because edit-mode input disables
normal terminal input canonicalization.
.It Ic eot-or-delete Ar n Ic ^D
Acts as
.Ic eot
if alone on a line; otherwise acts as
.Ic delete-char-forward .
.It Ic error
Error (ring the bell).
.It Ic exchange-point-and-mark ^X^X
Places the cursor where the mark is and sets the mark to where the cursor was.
.It Ic expand-file ^[\&*
Appends a
.Ql *
to the current word and replaces the word with the result of performing file
globbing on the word.
If no files match the pattern, the bell is rung.
.It Ic forward-char Ar n Ic ^F
Moves the cursor forward
.Ar n
characters.
.It Ic forward-word Ar n Ic ^[f
Moves the cursor forward to the end of the
.Ar n Ns th
word.
.It Ic goto-history Ar n Ic ^[g
Goes to history number
.Ar n .
.It Ic kill-line KILL
Deletes the entire input line.
.It Ic kill-region ^W
Deletes the input between the cursor and the mark.
.It Ic kill-to-eol Ar n Ic ^K
Deletes the input from the cursor to the end of the line if
.Ar n
is not specified; otherwise deletes characters between the cursor and column
.Ar n .
.It Ic list ^[?
Prints a sorted, columnated list of command named or file names (if any) that
can complete the partial word containing the cursor.
Directory names have
.Ql /
appended to them.
.It Ic list-command ^X?
Prints a sorted, columnated list of command names (if any) that can complete
the partial word containing the cursor.
.It Ic list-file ^X^Y
Prints a sorted, columnated list of file names (if any) that can complete the
partial word containing the cursor.
File type indicators are appended as described under
.Ic list
above.
.It Ic newline ^J , ^M
Causes the current input line to be processed by the shell.
The current cursor position may be anywhere on the line.
.It Ic newline-and-next ^O
Causes the current input line to be processed by the shell, and the next line
from history becomes the current line.
This is only useful after an
.Ic up-history
or
.Ic search-history .
.It Ic no-op QUIT
This does nothing.
.It Ic prefix-1 ^[
Introduces a 2-character command sequence.
.It Ic prefix-2 ^X
.It Ic prefix-2 ^[[
Introduces a 2-character command sequence.
.It Ic prev-hist-word Ar n Ic ^[\&. , ^{_
The last
.Pq Ar n Ns th
word of the previous command is inserted at the cursor.
.It Ic quote ^^
The following character is taken literally rather than as an editing command.
.It Ic redraw ^L
Reprints the prompt string and the current input line.
.It Ic search-character-backward Ar n Ic ^[^]
Search backward in the current line for the
.Ar n Ns th
occurrence of the next character typed.
.It Ic search-character-forward Ar n Ic ^]
Search forward in the current line for the
.Ar n Ns th
occurrence of the next character typed.
.It Ic search-history ^R
Enter incremental search mode.
The internal history list is searched
backwards for commands matching the input.
An initial
.Ql ^
in the search string anchors the search.
The abort key will leave search mode.
Other commands will be executed after leaving search mode.
Successive
.Ic search-history
commands continue searching backward to the next previous occurrence of the
pattern.
The history buffer retains only a finite number of lines; the oldest
are discarded as necessary.
.It Ic set-mark-command ^[ Ns <space>
Set the mark at the cursor position.
.It Ic stuff
On systems supporting it, pushes the bound character back onto the terminal
input where it may receive special processing by the terminal handler.
This is useful for the BRL ^T mini-systat feature, for example.
.It Ic stuff-reset
Acts like
.Ic stuff ,
then aborts input the same as an interrupt.
.It Ic transpose-chars ^T
If at the end of line, or if the
.Ic gmacs
option is set, this exchanges the two previous characters; otherwise, it
exchanges the previous and current characters and moves the cursor one
character to the right.
.It Ic up-history Ar n Ic ^P
Scrolls the history buffer backward
.Ar n
lines (earlier).
.It Ic upcase-word Ar n Ic ^[U , ^[u
Uppercase the next
.Ar n
words.
.It Ic version ^V
Display the version of ksh.
The current edit buffer is restored as soon as any
key is pressed (the key is then processed, unless it is a space).
.It Ic yank ^Y
Inserts the most recently killed text string at the current cursor position.
.It Ic yank-pop ^[y
Immediately after a
.Ic yank ,
replaces the inserted text string with the next previously killed text string.
.El
.Ss Vi editing mode
The vi command-line editor in ksh has basically the same commands as the vi
editor (see
.Xr vi 1 ) ,
with the following exceptions:
.Bl -bullet
.It
You start out in insert mode.
.It
There are file name and command completion commands
.Po
.Ic = , \e , \&* , ^X ,
.Ic ^E , ^F
and, optionally,
.Ic <tab>
.Pc .
.It
The
.Ic _
command is different (in ksh it is the last argument command, in vi it goes to
the start of the current line).
.It
The
.Ic /
and
.Ic G
commands move in the opposite direction as the
.Ic j
command.
.It
Commands which don't make sense in a single line editor are not available
(e.g., screen movement commands,
.Xr ex 1 Ns -style
colon
.Pq Ic \&:
commands, etc.).
.El
.Pp
Note that the ^X stands for control-X; also <esc>, <space> and <tab> are used
for escape, space, and tab, respectively (no kidding).
.Pp
Like vi, there are two modes \(em
.Dq insert
mode and
.Dq command
mode.
In insert mode, most characters are simply put in the buffer at the
current cursor position as they are typed; however, some characters are
treated specially.
In particular, the following characters are taken from
current tty settings (see
.Xr tty 1 )
and have their usual meaning (normal values are in parentheses): kill (^U),
erase (^?), werase (^W), eof (^D), intr (^C), and quit (^\e).
In addition to
the above, the following characters are also treated specially in insert mode:
.Bl -tag -width 10n
.It Ic ^H
Erases previous character.
.It Ic ^V
Literal next.
The next character typed is not treated specially (can be used
to insert the characters being described here).
.It Ic ^J ^M
End of line.
The current line is read, parsed, and executed by the shell.
.It Ic <esc>
Puts the editor in command mode (see below).
.It Ic ^E
Command and file name enumeration (see below).
.It Ic ^F
Command and file name completion (see below).
If used twice in a row, the
list of possible completions is displayed; if used a third time, the completion
is undone.
.It Ic ^X
Command and file name expansion (see below).
.It Ic <tab>
Optional file name and command completion (see
.Ic ^F
above), enabled with
.Ic set Fl o Ic vi-tabcomplete .
.El
.Pp
In command mode, each character is interpreted as a command.
Characters that
don't correspond to commands, are illegal combinations of commands, or are
commands that can't be carried out all cause beeps.
In the following command descriptions, an
.Ar n
indicates the command may be prefixed by a number (e.g.,
.Ic 10l
moves right 10 characters); if no number prefix is used,
.Ar n
is assumed to be 1 unless otherwise specified.
The term
.Dq current position
refers to the position between the cursor and the character preceding the
cursor.
A
.Dq word
is a sequence of letters, digits, and underscore characters or a sequence of
non-letter, non-digit, non-underscore, non-whitespace characters (e.g.,
.Dq ab2\&*\&&^
contains two words) and a
.Dq big-word
is a sequence of non-whitespace characters.
.Pp
Special ksh vi commands
.Pp
The following commands are not in, or are different from, the normal vi file
editor:
.Bl -tag -width 10n
.It Ar n Ns _
Insert a space followed by the
.Ar n Ns th
big-word from the last command in the history at the current position and enter
insert mode; if
.Ar n
is not specified, the last word is inserted.
.It Ic \&#
Insert the comment character
.Pq Sq \&#
at the start of the current line and return the line to the shell (equivalent
to
.Ic \&I\&#^J ) .
.It Ar n Ns Ic g
Like
.Ic G ,
except if
.Ar n
is not specified, it goes to the most recent remembered line.
.It Ar n Ns Ic v
Edit line
.Ar n
using the vi editor; if
.Ar n
is not specified, the current line is edited.
The actual command executed is
.Ic fc Fl e Ic ${VISUAL:-${EDITOR:-vi}} Ar n .
.It Ic \&* No and Ic ^X
Command or file name expansion is applied to the current big-word (with an
appended
.Ql * ,
if the word contains no file globbing characters) -- the big-word is replaced
with the resulting words.
If the current big-word is the first on the line (or
follows one of the characters
.Ql \&; ,
.Ql | ,
.Ql & ,
.Ql (
or
.Ql \&) )
and does not contain a slash
.Pq Sq /
then the command expansion is done; otherwise file name expansion is done.
Command expansion will match the big-word against all aliases, functions and
built-in commands as well as any executable files found by searching the
directories in the
.Ev PATH
parameter.
File name expansion matches the big-word against the files in the
current directory.
After expansion, the cursor is placed just past the last
word and the editor is in insert mode.
.It n\e,\ n^F,\ n<tab>,\ and\ n<esc>
Command/file name completion.
Replace the current big-word with the
longest unique match obtained after performing command and file name expansion.
.Ic <tab>
is only recognized if the
.Ic vi-tabcomplete
option is set, while
.Ic <esc>
is only recognized if the
.Ic vi-esccomplete
option is set (see
.Ic set Fl o ) .
If
.Ar n
is specified, the
.Ar n Ns th
possible completion is selected (as reported by the command/file name
enumeration command).
.It Ic \&= No and Ic ^E
Command/file name enumeration.
List all the commands or files that match the current big-word.
.It Ic ^V
Display the version of
.Nm pdksh ;
it is displayed until another key is pressed (this key is ignored).
.It Ic @ Ns Ar c
Macro expansion.
Execute the commands found in the alias
.Ar c .
.El
.Pp
Intra-line movement commands:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Xo Ar n Ns Ic h No and
.Ar n Ns Ic ^H
.Xc
Move left
.Ar n
characters.
.It Xo Ar n Ns Ic l No and
.Ar n Ns Ic <space>
.Xc
Move right
.Ar n
characters.
.It Ic \&0
Move to column 0.
.It Ic ^
Move to the first non-whitespace character.
.It Ar n Ns Ic \&|
Move to column
.Ar n .
.It Ic $
Move to the last character.
.It Ar n Ns Ic b
Move back
.Ar n
words.
.It Ar n Ns Ic B
Move back
.Ar n
big-words.
.It Ar n Ns Ic e
Move forward to the end of the word,
.Ar n
times.
.It Ar n Ns Ic E
Move forward to the end of the big-word,
.Ar n
times.
.It Ar n Ns Ic w
Move forward
.Ar n
words.
.It Ar n Ns Ic W
Move forward
.Ar n
big-words.
.It Ic %
Find match.
The editor looks forward for the nearest parenthesis, bracket or
brace and then moves the cursor to the matching parenthesis, bracket or brace.
.It Ar n Ns Ic f Ns Ar c
Move forward to the
.Ar n Ns th
occurrence of the character
.Ar c .
.It Ar n Ns Ic F Ns Ar c
Move backward to the
.Ar n Ns th
occurrence of the character
.Ar c .
.It Ar n Ns Ic t Ns Ar c
Move forward to just before the
.Ar n Ns th
occurrence of the character
.Ar c .
.It Ar n Ns Ic T Ns Ar c
Move backward to just before the
.Ar n Ns th
occurrence of the character
.Ar c .
.It Ar n Ns Ic \&;
Repeats the last
.Ic f , F , t
or
.Ic T
command.
.It Ar n Ns Ic \&,
Repeats the last
.Ic f , F , t
or
.Ic T
command, but moves in the opposite direction.
.El
.Pp
Inter-line movement commands:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It \fIn\fBj\fR,\ \fIn\fB+\fR\ and\ \fIn\fB^N\fR
Move to the
.Ar n Ns th
next line in the history.
.It \fIn\fBk\fR,\ \fIn\fB-\fR\ and\ \fIn\fB^P\fR
Move to the
.Ar n Ns th
previous line in the history.
.It Ar n Ns Ic G
Move to line
.Ar n
in the history; if
.Ar n
is not specified, the number of the first remembered line is used.
.It Ar n Ns Ic g
Like
.Ic G ,
except if
.Ar n
is not specified, it goes to the most recent remembered line.
.It Ar n Ns Ic / Ns Ar string
Search backward through the history for the
.Ar n Ns th
line containing
.Ar string ;
if
.Ar string
starts with
.Ql ^ ,
the remainder of the string must appear at the start of the history line for
it to match.
.It Ar n Ns Ic \&? Ns Ar string
Same as
.Ic / ,
except it searches forward through the history.
.It Ar n Ns Ic n
Search for the
.Ar n Ns th
occurrence of the last search string; the directory of the search is the same
as the last search.
.It Ar n Ns Ic N
Search for the
.Ar n Ns th
occurrence of the last search string; the directory of the search is the
opposite of the last search.
.El
.Pp
Edit commands
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Ar n Ns Ic a
Append text
.Ar n
times; goes into insert mode just after the current position.
The append is
only replicated if command mode is re-entered (i.e., <esc> is used).
.It Ar n Ns Ic A
Same as
.Ic a ,
except it appends at the end of the line.
.It Ar n Ns Ic i
Insert text
.Ar n
times; goes into insert mode at the current position.
The insertion is only
replicated if command mode is re-entered (i.e., <esc> is used).
.It Ar n Ns Ic I
Same as
.Ic i ,
except the insertion is done just before the first non-blank character.
.It Ar n Ns Ic s
Substitute the next
.Ar n
characters (i.e., delete the characters and go into insert mode).
.It Ic S
Substitute whole line.
All characters from the first non-blank character to the
end of the line are deleted and insert mode is entered.
.It Ar n Ns Ic c Ns Ar move-cmd
Change from the current position to the position resulting from
.Ar n move-cmd Ns s
(i.e., delete the indicated region and go into insert mode); if
.Ar move-cmd
is
.Ic c ,
the line starting from the first non-blank character is changed.
.It Ic C
Change from the current position to the end of the line (i.e., delete to the
end of the line and go into insert mode).
.It Ar n Ns Ic x
Delete the next
.Ar n
characters.
.It Ar n Ns Ic X
Delete the previous
.Ar n
characters.
.It Ic D
Delete to the end of the line.
.It Ar n Ns Ic d Ns Ar move-cmd
Delete from the current position to the position resulting from
.Ar n move-cmd Ns s ;
.Ar move-cmd
is a movement command (see above) or
.Ic d ,
in which case the current line is deleted.
.It Ar n Ns Ic r Ns Ar c
Replace the next
.Ar n
characters with the character
.Ar c .
.It Ar n Ns Ic R
Replace.
Enter insert mode but overwrite existing characters instead of
inserting before existing characters.
The replacement is repeated
.Ar n
times.
.It Ar n Ns Ic \&~
Change the case of the next
.Ar n
characters.
.It Ar n Ns Ic y Ns Ar move-cmd
Yank from the current position to the position resulting from
.Ar n move-cmd Ns s
into the yank buffer; if
.Ar move-cmd
is
.Ic y ,
the whole line is yanked.
.It Ic Y
Yank from the current position to the end of the line.
.It Ar n Ns Ic p
Paste the contents of the yank buffer just after the current position,
.Ar n
times.
.It Ar n Ns Ic P
Same as
.Ic p ,
except the buffer is pasted at the current position.
.El
.Pp
Miscellaneous vi commands
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Ic ^J No and Ic ^M
The current line is read, parsed, and executed by the shell.
.It Ic ^L No and Ic ^R
Redraw the current line.
.It Ar n Ns Ic \&.
Redo the last edit command
.Ar n
times.
.It Ic u
Undo the last edit command.
.It Ic U
Undo all changes that have been made to the current line.
.It Ar intr No and Ar quit
The interrupt and quit terminal characters cause the current line to be
deleted and a new prompt to be printed.
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width "/etc/suid_profile" -compact
.It Pa ~/.profile
.It Pa /etc/profile
.It Pa /etc/suid_profile
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr arc4random 1 ,
.Xr awk 1 ,
.Xr csh 1 ,
.Xr ed 1 ,
.Xr getconf 1 ,
.Xr getopt 1 ,
.Xr sed 1 ,
.Xr sh 1 ,
.Xr stty 1 ,
.Xr vi 1 ,
.Xr dup 2 ,
.Xr execve 2 ,
.Xr getgid 2 ,
.Xr getuid 2 ,
.Xr open 2 ,
.Xr pipe 2 ,
.Xr wait 2 ,
.Xr getopt 3 ,
.Xr rand 3 ,
.Xr random 3 ,
.Xr signal 3 ,
.Xr srand 3 ,
.Xr srandom 3 ,
.Xr system 3 ,
.Xr environ 7
.Pp
.Pa http://docsrv.sco.com:507/en/man/html.C/sh.C.html
.Pp
.Rs
.%A Morris Bolsky
.%A David Korn
.%T "The KornShell Command and Programming Language"
.%D 1983
.%O "ISBN 0-13-516972-0"
.Re
.Rs
.%A Stephen G. Kochan
.%A Patrick H. Wood
.%T "UNIX Shell Programming"
.%O "Hayden"
.Re
.Rs
.%A "IEEE Inc."
.%T "IEEE Standard for Information Technology - Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) - Part 2: Shell and Utilities"
.%D 1993
.%O "ISBN 1-55937-266-9"
.Re
.Sh VERSION
This page documents version @(#)PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2 of the public
domain Korn shell, as delivered with
.Mx .
.Sh NOTES
.Nm sh
is implemented as a run-time option of
.Nm pdksh ,
with only those
.Nm ksh
features whose syntax or semantics are incompatible with a traditional Bourne
shell disabled.
Since this leaves some
.Nm ksh
extensions exposed, caution should be used where backwards compatibility with
traditional Bourne or
.Tn POSIX
compliant shells is an issue.
.Pp
.Nm mksh
is the name for the portable version of
.Mx MirBSD
.Nm ksh
installed as
.Pa /bin/mksh
on other, foreign, operating systems.
Visit
.Pa http://wiki.mirbsd.de/MirbsdKsh
to obtain the latest version of
.Nm mksh .
.Sh AUTHORS
This shell is based on the public domain 7th edition Bourne shell clone by
Charles Forsyth and parts of the BRL shell by Doug A. Gwyn, Doug Kingston,
Ron Natalie, Arnold Robbins, Lou Salkind, and others.
The first release of
.Nm pdksh
was created by Eric Gisin, and it was subsequently maintained by
.An John R. MacMillan Aq change!john@sq.sq.com
and
.An Simon J. Gerraty Aq sjg@zen.void.oz.au .
The current maintainer is
.An Michael Rendell Aq michael@cs.mun.ca
for the upstream version of
.Nm pdksh
and
.An Thorsten Glaser Aq tg@66h.42h.de
for
.Mx .
The
.Pa CONTRIBUTORS
file in the source distribution contains a more complete list of people and
their part in the shell's development.
.Sh BUGS
Send bug reports for
.Nm
to the
.Mx
development team at
.Aq miros\-discuss@66h.42h.de .
Please include the version of
.Nm
.Po
.Ic echo $KSH_VERSION
shows it
.Pc ,
the machine, operating system, and compiler you are using and how you built
.Nm
(it is recommended to use the provided
.Pa Build.sh
mechanism if using
.Nm mksh )
and a description of how to repeat the bug (a small shell script that
demonstrates the bug is best).
The following, if relevant (if you are not sure, include them), can also be
helpful: options you are using (both
.Pa options.h
and
.Ic set Fl o Ic options )
and a copy of your
.Pa config.h
and
.Pa config.log
(the files generated by the
.Pa configure
script).
.Pp
By the way, the most frequently reported bug is:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
$ echo hi | read a; echo $a   # Does not print hi
.Ed
.Pp
The
.Nm pdksh
author is aware of this and there is no need to report it.
For another known bug, refer to the comment above the
.Em complete-command
paragraph in the section
.Sx Emacs editing mode
above.