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@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@
.if !"\\$4"" .Xf \\$2 \\$1 "\\$3\\f\\$1\\$4\\*(Xi" "\\$5" "\\$6" "\\$7" "\\$8" "\\$9"
.if "\\$4"" \\$3\fR\s10
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-.TH RC 1 "2002-05-21"
+.TH RC 1 "2002-06-18"
.SH NAME
rc \- shell
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -1135,7 +1135,8 @@ operator:
.De
.PP
This is useful when the normal list concatenation rules need to be
-bypassed. For example, to append a single period at the end of
+bypassed.
+For example, to append a single period at the end of
.Cr $path ,
use:
.Ds
@@ -1413,7 +1414,8 @@ If the command exited with a numeric value, that number is the status.
If the command died with a signal, the status is the name of that signal;
if a core file was created, the string
.Rc `` +core ''
-is appended. The value of
+is appended.
+The value of
.Cr $status
for a pipeline is a list, with one entry, as above, for each process
in the pipeline.
@@ -1694,6 +1696,10 @@ For example:
.TP
\&
disables core dumps.
+To set a soft limit equal to the hard limit:
+.Ds
+.Cr "limit `{limit -h datasize}"
+.De
.TP
.B newpgrp
Puts
@@ -2043,6 +2049,10 @@ The redundant inner parentheses must be omitted.
.PP
Variable subscripting cannot be used in here documents.
.PP
+The
+.Cr limit
+builtin silently ignores extra arguments.
+.PP
Bug reports should be mailed to
.Cr "<tjg@star.le.ac.uk>" .
.SH INCOMPATIBILITIES