From a8699a58d8632f21e897ea5c4900a15483a9a8ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Toby Goodwin Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 08:01:39 +0100 Subject: release: rc-1.7.2 --- rc.1 | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'rc.1') diff --git a/rc.1 b/rc.1 index b0e920c..af46aa6 100644 --- a/rc.1 +++ b/rc.1 @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ .if !"\\$4"" .Xf \\$2 \\$1 "\\$3\\f\\$1\\$4\\*(Xi" "\\$5" "\\$6" "\\$7" "\\$8" "\\$9" .if "\\$4"" \\$3\fR\s10 .. -.TH RC 1 "2003-07-17" +.TH RC 1 "2014-09-01" .SH NAME rc \- shell .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -2056,8 +2056,15 @@ The .Cr limit builtin silently ignores extra arguments. .PP +Backquote substitution never produces empty strings - multiple +consecutive occurrences of the separator are treated the same as a +single occurrence. +.Ds +.Cr "ifs=! { x = `{echo -n a!!b}; whatis x }" +.Cr "x=(a b) # NOT x=(a '' b)" +.PP Bug reports should be mailed to -.Cr "" . +.Cr "" . .SH INCOMPATIBILITIES Here is a list of features which distinguish this incarnation of .I rc @@ -2143,7 +2150,7 @@ Unix Research System, Tenth Edition, Volume 2. (Saunders College Publishing) .PP -.Cr http://www.star.le.ac.uk/~tjg/rc/misc/td , +.Cr http://static.tobold.org/rc/rc-duff.html , an updated version of the above paper. .PP .IR history (1) -- cgit v1.2.3