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32.Dd December 14, 2022
33.Dt SH 1
34.Os
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm sh
37.Nd command interpreter (shell)
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39.Nm
40.Op Fl /+abCEefhIimnPpTuVvx
41.Op Fl /+o Ar longname
42.Oo
43.Ar script
44.Op Ar arg ...
45.Oc
46.Nm
47.Op Fl /+abCEefhIimnPpTuVvx
48.Op Fl /+o Ar longname
49.Fl c Ar string
50.Oo
51.Ar name
52.Op Ar arg ...
53.Oc
54.Nm
55.Op Fl /+abCEefhIimnPpTuVvx
56.Op Fl /+o Ar longname
57.Fl s
58.Op Ar arg ...
59.Sh DESCRIPTION
60The
61.Nm
62utility is the standard command interpreter for the system.
63The current version of
64.Nm
65is close to the
66.St -p1003.1
67specification for the shell.
68It only supports features
69designated by POSIX,
70plus a few Berkeley extensions.
71This man page is not intended to be a tutorial nor a complete
72specification of the shell.
73.Ss Overview
74The shell is a command that reads lines from
75either a file or the terminal, interprets them, and
76generally executes other commands.
77It is the program that is started when a user logs into the system,
78although a user can select a different shell with the
79.Xr chsh 1
80command.
81The shell
82implements a language that has flow control constructs,
83a macro facility that provides a variety of features in
84addition to data storage, along with built-in history and line
85editing capabilities.
86It incorporates many features to
87aid interactive use and has the advantage that the interpretative
88language is common to both interactive and non-interactive
89use (shell scripts).
90That is, commands can be typed directly
91to the running shell or can be put into a file,
92which can be executed directly by the shell.
93.Ss Invocation
94.\"
95.\" XXX This next sentence is incredibly confusing.
96.\"
97If no arguments are present and if the standard input of the shell
98is connected to a terminal
99(or if the
100.Fl i
101option is set),
102the shell is considered an interactive shell.
103An interactive shell
104generally prompts before each command and handles programming
105and command errors differently (as described below).
106When first starting, the shell inspects argument 0, and
107if it begins with a dash
108.Pq Ql - ,
109the shell is also considered a login shell.
110This is normally done automatically by the system
111when the user first logs in.
112A login shell first reads commands
113from the files
114.Pa /etc/profile
115and then
116.Pa .profile
117in a user's home directory,
118if they exist.
119If the environment variable
120.Ev ENV
121is set on entry to a shell, or is set in the
122.Pa .profile
123of a login shell, the shell then subjects its value to parameter expansion
124and arithmetic expansion and reads commands from the named file.
125Therefore, a user should place commands that are to be executed only
126at login time in the
127.Pa .profile
128file, and commands that are executed for every shell inside the
129.Ev ENV
130file.
131The user can set the
132.Ev ENV
133variable to some file by placing the following line in the file
134.Pa .profile
135in the home directory,
136substituting for
137.Pa .shrc
138the filename desired:
139.Pp
140.Dl "ENV=$HOME/.shrc; export ENV"
141.Pp
142The first non-option argument specified on the command line
143will be treated as the
144name of a file from which to read commands (a shell script), and
145the remaining arguments are set as the positional parameters
146of the shell
147.Li ( $1 , $2 ,
148etc.).
149Otherwise, the shell reads commands
150from its standard input.
151.Pp
152Unlike older versions of
153.Nm
154the
155.Ev ENV
156script is only sourced on invocation of interactive shells.
157This
158closes a well-known, and sometimes easily exploitable security
159hole related to poorly thought out
160.Ev ENV
161scripts.
162.Ss Argument List Processing
163All of the single letter options to
164.Nm
165have a corresponding long name,
166with the exception of
167.Fl c
168and
169.Fl /+o .
170These long names are provided next to the single letter options
171in the descriptions below.
172The long name for an option may be specified as an argument to the
173.Fl /+o
174option of
175.Nm .
176Once the shell is running,
177the long name for an option may be specified as an argument to the
178.Fl /+o
179option of the
180.Ic set
181built-in command
182(described later in the section called
183.Sx Built-in Commands ) .
184Introducing an option with a dash
185.Pq Ql -
186enables the option,
187while using a plus
188.Pq Ql +
189disables the option.
190A
191.Dq Li --
192or plain
193.Ql -
194will stop option processing and will force the remaining
195words on the command line to be treated as arguments.
196The
197.Fl /+o
198and
199.Fl c
200options do not have long names.
201They take arguments and are described after the single letter options.
202.Bl -tag -width indent
203.It Fl a Li allexport
204Flag variables for export when assignments are made to them.
205.It Fl b Li notify
206Enable asynchronous notification of background job
207completion.
208(UNIMPLEMENTED)
209.It Fl C Li noclobber
210Do not overwrite existing files with
211.Ql > .
212.It Fl E Li emacs
213Enable the built-in
214.Xr emacs 1 Pq Pa ports/editors/emacs
215command line editor (disables the
216.Fl V
217option if it has been set;
218set automatically when interactive on terminals).
219.It Fl e Li errexit
220Exit immediately if any untested command fails in non-interactive mode.
221The exit status of a command is considered to be
222explicitly tested if the command is part of the list used to control
223an
224.Ic if , elif , while ,
225or
226.Ic until ;
227if the command is the left
228hand operand of an
229.Dq Li &&
230or
231.Dq Li ||
232operator; or if the command is a pipeline preceded by the
233.Ic !\&
234keyword.
235If a shell function is executed and its exit status is explicitly
236tested, all commands of the function are considered to be tested as
237well.
238.Pp
239It is recommended to check for failures explicitly
240instead of relying on
241.Fl e
242because it tends to behave in unexpected ways,
243particularly in larger scripts.
244.It Fl f Li noglob
245Disable pathname expansion.
246.It Fl h Li trackall
247A do-nothing option for POSIX compliance.
248.It Fl I Li ignoreeof
249Ignore
250.Dv EOF Ap s
251from input when in interactive mode.
252.It Fl i Li interactive
253Force the shell to behave interactively.
254.It Fl m Li monitor
255Turn on job control (set automatically when interactive).
256A new process group is created for each pipeline (called a job).
257It is possible to suspend jobs or to have them run in the foreground or
258in the background.
259In a non-interactive shell,
260this option can be set even if no terminal is available
261and is useful to place processes in separate process groups.
262.It Fl n Li noexec
263If not interactive, read commands but do not
264execute them.
265This is useful for checking the
266syntax of shell scripts.
267.It Fl P Li physical
268Change the default for the
269.Ic cd
270and
271.Ic pwd
272commands from
273.Fl L
274(logical directory layout)
275to
276.Fl P
277(physical directory layout).
278.It Fl p Li privileged
279Turn on privileged mode.
280This mode is enabled on startup
281if either the effective user or group ID is not equal to the
282real user or group ID.
283Turning this mode off sets the
284effective user and group IDs to the real user and group IDs.
285When this mode is enabled for interactive shells, the file
286.Pa /etc/suid_profile
287is sourced instead of
288.Pa ~/.profile
289after
290.Pa /etc/profile
291is sourced, and the contents of the
292.Ev ENV
293variable are ignored.
294.It Fl s Li stdin
295Read commands from standard input (set automatically
296if no file arguments are present).
297This option has
298no effect when set after the shell has already started
299running (i.e., when set with the
300.Ic set
301command).
302.It Fl T Li trapsasync
303When waiting for a child, execute traps immediately.
304If this option is not set,
305traps are executed after the child exits,
306as specified in
307.St -p1003.2 .
308This nonstandard option is useful for putting guarding shells around
309children that block signals.
310The surrounding shell may kill the child
311or it may just return control to the tty and leave the child alone,
312like this:
313.Bd -literal -offset indent
314sh -T -c "trap 'exit 1' 2 ; some-blocking-program"
315.Ed
316.It Fl u Li nounset
317Write a message to standard error when attempting
318to expand a variable, a positional parameter or
319the special parameter
320.Va \&!
321that is not set, and if the
322shell is not interactive, exit immediately.
323.It Fl V Li vi
324Enable the built-in
325.Xr vi 1
326command line editor (disables
327.Fl E
328if it has been set).
329.It Fl v Li verbose
330The shell writes its input to standard error
331as it is read.
332Useful for debugging.
333.It Fl x Li xtrace
334Write each command
335(preceded by the value of the
336.Va PS4
337variable subjected to parameter expansion and arithmetic expansion)
338to standard error before it is executed.
339Useful for debugging.
340.It Li nolog
341Another do-nothing option for POSIX compliance.
342It only has a long name.
343.It Li pipefail
344Change the exit status of a pipeline to the last non-zero exit status of
345any command in the pipeline, if any.
346Since an exit due to
347.Dv SIGPIPE
348counts as a non-zero exit status,
349this option may cause non-zero exit status for successful pipelines
350if a command such as
351.Xr head 1
352in the pipeline terminates with status 0 without reading its
353input completely.
354This option only has a long name.
355.It Li verify
356Set
357.Dv O_VERIFY
358when sourcing files or loading profiles.
359.\" See also
360.\" .Xr mac_veriexec 4 . TODO Does not exist; write it.
361.El
362.Pp
363The
364.Fl c
365option causes the commands to be read from the
366.Ar string
367operand instead of from the standard input.
368Keep in mind that this option only accepts a single string as its
369argument, hence multi-word strings must be quoted.
370.Pp
371The
372.Fl /+o
373option takes as its only argument the long name of an option
374to be enabled or disabled.
375For example, the following two invocations of
376.Nm
377both enable the built-in
378.Xr emacs 1 Pq Pa ports/editors/emacs
379command line editor:
380.Bd -literal -offset indent
381set -E
382set -o emacs
383.Ed
384.Pp
385If used without an argument, the
386.Fl o
387option displays the current option settings in a human-readable format.
388If
389.Cm +o
390is used without an argument, the current option settings are output
391in a format suitable for re-input into the shell.
392.Ss Lexical Structure
393The shell reads input in terms of lines from a file and breaks
394it up into words at whitespace (blanks and tabs), and at
395certain sequences of
396characters called
397.Dq operators ,
398which are special to the shell.
399There are two types of operators: control operators and
400redirection operators (their meaning is discussed later).
401The following is a list of valid operators:
402.Bl -tag -width indent
403.It Control operators:
404.Bl -column "XXX" "XXX" "XXX" "XXX" "XXX" -offset center -compact
405.It Li & Ta Li && Ta Li \&( Ta Li \&) Ta Li \en
406.It Li ;; Ta Li ;& Ta Li \&; Ta Li \&| Ta Li ||
407.El
408.It Redirection operators:
409.Bl -column "XXX" "XXX" "XXX" "XXX" "XXX" -offset center -compact
410.It Li < Ta Li > Ta Li << Ta Li >> Ta Li <>
411.It Li <& Ta Li >& Ta Li <<- Ta Li >| Ta \&
412.El
413.El
414.Pp
415The character
416.Ql #
417introduces a comment if used at the beginning of a word.
418The word starting with
419.Ql #
420and the rest of the line are ignored.
421.Pp
422ASCII
423.Dv NUL
424characters (character code 0) are not allowed in shell input.
425.Ss Quoting
426Quoting is used to remove the special meaning of certain characters
427or words to the shell, such as operators, whitespace, keywords,
428or alias names.
429.Pp
430There are four types of quoting: matched single quotes,
431dollar-single quotes,
432matched double quotes, and backslash.
433.Bl -tag -width indent
434.It Single Quotes
435Enclosing characters in single quotes preserves the literal
436meaning of all the characters (except single quotes, making
437it impossible to put single-quotes in a single-quoted string).
438.It Dollar-Single Quotes
439Enclosing characters between
440.Li $'
441and
442.Li '
443preserves the literal meaning of all characters
444except backslashes and single quotes.
445A backslash introduces a C-style escape sequence:
446.Bl -tag -width xUnnnnnnnn
447.It \ea
448Alert (ring the terminal bell)
449.It \eb
450Backspace
451.It \ec Ns Ar c
452The control character denoted by
453.Li ^ Ns Ar c
454in
455.Xr stty 1 .
456If
457.Ar c
458is a backslash, it must be doubled.
459.It \ee
460The ESC character (ASCII 0x1b)
461.It \ef
462Formfeed
463.It \en
464Newline
465.It \er
466Carriage return
467.It \et
468Horizontal tab
469.It \ev
470Vertical tab
471.It \e\e
472Literal backslash
473.It \e\&'
474Literal single-quote
475.It \e\&"
476Literal double-quote
477.It \e Ns Ar nnn
478The byte whose octal value is
479.Ar nnn
480(one to three digits)
481.It \ex Ns Ar nn
482The byte whose hexadecimal value is
483.Ar nn
484(one or more digits only the last two of which are used)
485.It \eu Ns Ar nnnn
486The Unicode code point
487.Ar nnnn
488(four hexadecimal digits)
489.It \eU Ns Ar nnnnnnnn
490The Unicode code point
491.Ar nnnnnnnn
492(eight hexadecimal digits)
493.El
494.Pp
495The sequences for Unicode code points are currently only useful with
496UTF-8 locales.
497They reject code point 0 and UTF-16 surrogates.
498.Pp
499If an escape sequence would produce a byte with value 0,
500that byte and the rest of the string until the matching single-quote
501are ignored.
502.Pp
503Any other string starting with a backslash is an error.
504.It Double Quotes
505Enclosing characters within double quotes preserves the literal
506meaning of all characters except dollar sign
507.Pq Ql $ ,
508backquote
509.Pq Ql ` ,
510and backslash
511.Pq Ql \e .
512The backslash inside double quotes is historically weird.
513It remains literal unless it precedes the following characters,
514which it serves to quote:
515.Pp
516.Bl -column "XXX" "XXX" "XXX" "XXX" "XXX" -offset center -compact
517.It Li $ Ta Li ` Ta Li \&" Ta Li \e Ta Li \en
518.El
519.It Backslash
520A backslash preserves the literal meaning of the following
521character, with the exception of the newline character
522.Pq Ql \en .
523A backslash preceding a newline is treated as a line continuation.
524.El
525.Ss Keywords
526Keywords or reserved words are words that have special meaning to the
527shell and are recognized at the beginning of a line and
528after a control operator.
529The following are keywords:
530.Bl -column "doneXX" "elifXX" "elseXX" "untilXX" "whileX" -offset center
531.It Li \&! Ta { Ta } Ta Ic case Ta Ic do
532.It Ic done Ta Ic elif Ta Ic else Ta Ic esac Ta Ic fi
533.It Ic for Ta Ic if Ta Ic then Ta Ic until Ta Ic while
534.El
535.Ss Aliases
536An alias is a name and corresponding value set using the
537.Ic alias
538built-in command.
539Wherever the command word of a simple command may occur,
540and after checking for keywords if a keyword may occur, the shell
541checks the word to see if it matches an alias.
542If it does, it replaces it in the input stream with its value.
543For example, if there is an alias called
544.Dq Li lf
545with the value
546.Dq Li "ls -F" ,
547then the input
548.Pp
549.Dl "lf foobar"
550.Pp
551would become
552.Pp
553.Dl "ls -F foobar"
554.Pp
555Aliases are also recognized after an alias
556whose value ends with a space or tab.
557For example, if there is also an alias called
558.Dq Li nohup
559with the value
560.Dq Li "nohup " ,
561then the input
562.Pp
563.Dl "nohup lf foobar"
564.Pp
565would become
566.Pp
567.Dl "nohup ls -F foobar"
568.Pp
569Aliases provide a convenient way for naive users to
570create shorthands for commands without having to learn how
571to create functions with arguments.
572Using aliases in scripts is discouraged
573because the command that defines them must be executed
574before the code that uses them is parsed.
575This is fragile and not portable.
576.Pp
577An alias name may be escaped in a command line, so that it is not
578replaced by its alias value, by using quoting characters within or
579adjacent to the alias name.
580This is most often done by prefixing
581an alias name with a backslash to execute a function, built-in, or
582normal program with the same name.
583See the
584.Sx Quoting
585subsection.
586.Ss Commands
587The shell interprets the words it reads according to a
588language, the specification of which is outside the scope
589of this man page (refer to the BNF in the
590.St -p1003.2
591document).
592Essentially though, a line is read and if
593the first word of the line (or after a control operator)
594is not a keyword, then the shell has recognized a
595simple command.
596Otherwise, a complex command or some
597other special construct may have been recognized.
598.Ss Simple Commands
599If a simple command has been recognized, the shell performs
600the following actions:
601.Bl -enum
602.It
603Leading words of the form
604.Dq Li name=value
605are stripped off and assigned to the environment of
606the simple command
607(they do not affect expansions).
608Redirection operators and
609their arguments (as described below) are stripped
610off and saved for processing.
611.It
612The remaining words are expanded as described in
613the section called
614.Sx Word Expansions ,
615and the first remaining word is considered the command
616name and the command is located.
617The remaining
618words are considered the arguments of the command.
619If no command name resulted, then the
620.Dq Li name=value
621variable assignments recognized in 1) affect the
622current shell.
623.It
624Redirections are performed as described in
625the next section.
626.El
627.Ss Redirections
628Redirections are used to change where a command reads its input
629or sends its output.
630In general, redirections open, close, or
631duplicate an existing reference to a file.
632The overall format
633used for redirection is:
634.Pp
635.D1 Oo Ar n Oc Ar redir-op file
636.Pp
637The
638.Ar redir-op
639is one of the redirection operators mentioned
640previously.
641The following gives some examples of how these
642operators can be used.
643Note that stdin and stdout are commonly used abbreviations
644for standard input and standard output respectively.
645.Bl -tag -width "1234567890XX" -offset indent
646.It Oo Ar n Oc Ns Li > Ar file
647redirect stdout (or file descriptor
648.Ar n )
649to
650.Ar file
651.It Oo Ar n Oc Ns Li >| Ar file
652same as above, but override the
653.Fl C
654option
655.It Oo Ar n Oc Ns Li >> Ar file
656append stdout (or file descriptor
657.Ar n )
658to
659.Ar file
660.It Oo Ar n Oc Ns Li < Ar file
661redirect stdin (or file descriptor
662.Ar n )
663from
664.Ar file
665.It Oo Ar n Oc Ns Li <> Ar file
666redirect stdin (or file descriptor
667.Ar n )
668to and from
669.Ar file
670.It Oo Ar n1 Oc Ns Li <& Ns Ar n2
671duplicate stdin (or file descriptor
672.Ar n1 )
673from file descriptor
674.Ar n2
675.It Oo Ar n Oc Ns Li <&-
676close stdin (or file descriptor
677.Ar n )
678.It Oo Ar n1 Oc Ns Li >& Ns Ar n2
679duplicate stdout (or file descriptor
680.Ar n1 )
681to file descriptor
682.Ar n2
683.It Oo Ar n Oc Ns Li >&-
684close stdout (or file descriptor
685.Ar n )
686.El
687.Pp
688The following redirection is often called a
689.Dq here-document .
690.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
691.Oo Ar n Oc Ns Li << Ar delimiter
692.Ar here-doc-text
693.Ar ...
694.Ar delimiter
695.Ed
696.Pp
697All the text on successive lines up to the delimiter is
698saved away and made available to the command on standard
699input, or file descriptor
700.Ar n
701if it is specified.
702If the
703.Ar delimiter
704as specified on the initial line is quoted, then the
705.Ar here-doc-text
706is treated literally, otherwise the text is subjected to
707parameter expansion, command substitution, and arithmetic
708expansion (as described in the section on
709.Sx Word Expansions ) .
710If the operator is
711.Dq Li <<-
712instead of
713.Dq Li << ,
714then leading tabs
715in the
716.Ar here-doc-text
717are stripped.
718.Ss Search and Execution
719There are three types of commands: shell functions,
720built-in commands, and normal programs.
721The command is searched for (by name) in that order.
722The three types of commands are all executed in a different way.
723.Pp
724When a shell function is executed, all of the shell positional
725parameters (except
726.Li $0 ,
727which remains unchanged) are
728set to the arguments of the shell function.
729The variables which are explicitly placed in the environment of
730the command (by placing assignments to them before the
731function name) are made local to the function and are set
732to the values given.
733Then the command given in the function definition is executed.
734The positional parameters are restored to their original values
735when the command completes.
736This all occurs within the current shell.
737.Pp
738Shell built-in commands are executed internally to the shell, without
739spawning a new process.
740There are two kinds of built-in commands: regular and special.
741Assignments before special builtins persist after they finish
742executing and assignment errors, redirection errors and certain
743operand errors cause a script to be aborted.
744Special builtins cannot be overridden with a function.
745Both regular and special builtins can affect the shell in ways
746normal programs cannot.
747.Pp
748Otherwise, if the command name does not match a function
749or built-in command, the command is searched for as a normal
750program in the file system (as described in the next section).
751When a normal program is executed, the shell runs the program,
752passing the arguments and the environment to the program.
753If the program is not a normal executable file
754(i.e., if it does not begin with the
755.Dq "magic number"
756whose ASCII representation is
757.Dq Li #! ,
758resulting in an
759.Er ENOEXEC
760return value from
761.Xr execve 2 )
762but appears to be a text file,
763the shell will run a new instance of
764.Nm
765to interpret it.
766.Pp
767Note that previous versions of this document
768and the source code itself misleadingly and sporadically
769refer to a shell script without a magic number
770as a
771.Dq "shell procedure" .
772.Ss Path Search
773When locating a command, the shell first looks to see if
774it has a shell function by that name.
775Then it looks for a
776built-in command by that name.
777If a built-in command is not found,
778one of two things happen:
779.Bl -enum
780.It
781Command names containing a slash are simply executed without
782performing any searches.
783.It
784The shell searches each entry in the
785.Va PATH
786variable
787in turn for the command.
788The value of the
789.Va PATH
790variable should be a series of
791entries separated by colons.
792Each entry consists of a
793directory name.
794The current directory
795may be indicated implicitly by an empty directory name,
796or explicitly by a single period.
797.El
798.Ss Command Exit Status
799Each command has an exit status that can influence the behavior
800of other shell commands.
801The paradigm is that a command exits
802with zero for normal or success, and non-zero for failure,
803error, or a false indication.
804The man page for each command
805should indicate the various exit codes and what they mean.
806Additionally, the built-in commands return exit codes, as does
807an executed shell function.
808.Pp
809If a command is terminated by a signal, its exit status is greater than 128.
810The signal name can be found by passing the exit status to
811.Li kill -l .
812.Pp
813If there is no command word,
814the exit status is the exit status of the last command substitution executed,
815or zero if the command does not contain any command substitutions.
816.Ss Complex Commands
817Complex commands are combinations of simple commands
818with control operators or keywords, together creating a larger complex
819command.
820More generally, a command is one of the following:
821.Bl -item -offset indent
822.It
823simple command
824.It
825pipeline
826.It
827list or compound-list
828.It
829compound command
830.It
831function definition
832.El
833.Pp
834Unless otherwise stated, the exit status of a command is
835that of the last simple command executed by the command,
836or zero if no simple command was executed.
837.Ss Pipelines
838A pipeline is a sequence of one or more commands separated
839by the control operator
840.Ql \&| .
841The standard output of all but
842the last command is connected to the standard input
843of the next command.
844The standard output of the last
845command is inherited from the shell, as usual.
846.Pp
847The format for a pipeline is:
848.Pp
849.D1 Oo Li \&! Oc Ar command1 Op Li \&| Ar command2 ...
850.Pp
851The standard output of
852.Ar command1
853is connected to the standard input of
854.Ar command2 .
855The standard input, standard output, or
856both of a command is considered to be assigned by the
857pipeline before any redirection specified by redirection
858operators that are part of the command.
859.Pp
860Note that unlike some other shells,
861.Nm
862executes each process in a pipeline with more than one command
863in a subshell environment and as a child of the
864.Nm
865process.
866.Pp
867If the pipeline is not in the background (discussed later),
868the shell waits for all commands to complete.
869.Pp
870If the keyword
871.Ic !\&
872does not precede the pipeline, the
873exit status is the exit status of the last command specified
874in the pipeline if the
875.Cm pipefail
876option is not set or all commands returned zero,
877or the last non-zero exit status of any command in the pipeline otherwise.
878Otherwise, the exit status is the logical
879NOT of that exit status.
880That is, if
881that status is zero, the exit status is 1; if
882that status is greater than zero, the exit status
883is zero.
884.Pp
885Because pipeline assignment of standard input or standard
886output or both takes place before redirection, it can be
887modified by redirection.
888For example:
889.Pp
890.Dl "command1 2>&1 | command2"
891.Pp
892sends both the standard output and standard error of
893.Ar command1
894to the standard input of
895.Ar command2 .
896.Pp
897A
898.Ql \&;
899or newline terminator causes the preceding
900AND-OR-list
901(described below in the section called
902.Sx Short-Circuit List Operators )
903to be executed sequentially;
904an
905.Ql &
906causes asynchronous execution of the preceding AND-OR-list.
907.Ss Background Commands (&)
908If a command is terminated by the control operator ampersand
909.Pq Ql & ,
910the shell executes the command in a subshell environment (see
911.Sx Grouping Commands Together
912below) and asynchronously;
913the shell does not wait for the command to finish
914before executing the next command.
915.Pp
916The format for running a command in background is:
917.Pp
918.D1 Ar command1 Li & Op Ar command2 Li & Ar ...
919.Pp
920If the shell is not interactive, the standard input of an
921asynchronous command is set to
922.Pa /dev/null .
923.Pp
924The exit status is zero.
925.Ss Lists (Generally Speaking)
926A list is a sequence of zero or more commands separated by
927newlines, semicolons, or ampersands,
928and optionally terminated by one of these three characters.
929The commands in a
930list are executed in the order they are written.
931If command is followed by an ampersand, the shell starts the
932command and immediately proceeds onto the next command;
933otherwise it waits for the command to terminate before
934proceeding to the next one.
935.Ss Short-Circuit List Operators
936.Dq Li &&
937and
938.Dq Li ||
939are AND-OR list operators.
940.Dq Li &&
941executes the first command, and then executes the second command
942if the exit status of the first command is zero.
943.Dq Li ||
944is similar, but executes the second command if the exit
945status of the first command is nonzero.
946.Dq Li &&
947and
948.Dq Li ||
949both have the same priority.
950.Ss Flow-Control Constructs (if, while, for, case)
951The syntax of the
952.Ic if
953command is:
954.Bd -unfilled -offset indent -compact
955.Ic if Ar list
956.Ic then Ar list
957.Oo Ic elif Ar list
958.Ic then Ar list Oc Ar ...
959.Op Ic else Ar list
960.Ic fi
961.Ed
962.Pp
963The exit status is that of selected
964.Ic then
965or
966.Ic else
967list,
968or zero if no list was selected.
969.Pp
970The syntax of the
971.Ic while
972command is:
973.Bd -unfilled -offset indent -compact
974.Ic while Ar list
975.Ic do Ar list
976.Ic done
977.Ed
978.Pp
979The two lists are executed repeatedly while the exit status of the
980first list is zero.
981The
982.Ic until
983command is similar, but has the word
984.Ic until
985in place of
986.Ic while ,
987which causes it to
988repeat until the exit status of the first list is zero.
989.Pp
990The exit status is that of the last execution of the second list,
991or zero if it was never executed.
992.Pp
993The syntax of the
994.Ic for
995command is:
996.Bd -unfilled -offset indent -compact
997.Ic for Ar variable Op Ic in Ar word ...
998.Ic do Ar list
999.Ic done
1000.Ed
1001.Pp
1002If
1003.Ic in
1004and the following words are omitted,
1005.Ic in Li \&"$@\&"
1006is used instead.
1007The words are expanded, and then the list is executed
1008repeatedly with the variable set to each word in turn.
1009The
1010.Ic do
1011and
1012.Ic done
1013commands may be replaced with
1014.Ql {
1015and
1016.Ql } .
1017.Pp
1018The syntax of the
1019.Ic break
1020and
1021.Ic continue
1022commands is:
1023.D1 Ic break Op Ar num
1024.D1 Ic continue Op Ar num
1025.Pp
1026The
1027.Ic break
1028command terminates the
1029.Ar num
1030innermost
1031.Ic for
1032or
1033.Ic while
1034loops.
1035The
1036.Ic continue
1037command continues with the next iteration of the innermost loop.
1038These are implemented as special built-in commands.
1039.Pp
1040The syntax of the
1041.Ic case
1042command is:
1043.Bd -unfilled -offset indent -compact
1044.Ic case Ar word Ic in
1045.Ar pattern ) Ar list Li ;;
1046.Ar ...
1047.Ic esac
1048.Ed
1049.Pp
1050The pattern can actually be one or more patterns
1051(see
1052.Sx Shell Patterns
1053described later),
1054separated by
1055.Ql \&|
1056characters.
1057Tilde expansion, parameter expansion, command substitution,
1058arithmetic expansion and quote removal are applied to the word.
1059Then, each pattern is expanded in turn using tilde expansion,
1060parameter expansion, command substitution and arithmetic expansion and
1061the expanded form of the word is checked against it.
1062If a match is found, the corresponding list is executed.
1063If the selected list is terminated by the control operator
1064.Ql ;&
1065instead of
1066.Ql ;; ,
1067execution continues with the next list,
1068continuing until a list terminated with
1069.Ql ;;
1070or the end of the
1071.Ic case
1072command.
1073.Ss Grouping Commands Together
1074Commands may be grouped by writing either
1075.Pp
1076.Sm off
1077.Bd -literal -offset indent
1078.Po Ar list Pc
1079.Ed
1080.Sm on
1081.Pp
1082or
1083.Bd -literal -offset indent
1084.No { Ar list ; }
1085.Ed
1086.Pp
1087The first form executes the commands in a subshell environment.
1088A subshell environment has its own copy of:
1089.Bl -enum
1090.It
1091The current working directory as set by
1092.Ic cd .
1093.It
1094The file creation mask as set by
1095.Ic umask .
1096.It
1097Resource limits as set by
1098.Ic ulimit .
1099.It
1100References to open files.
1101.It
1102Traps as set by
1103.Ic trap .
1104.It
1105Known jobs.
1106.It
1107Positional parameters and variables.
1108.It
1109Shell options.
1110.It
1111Shell functions.
1112.It
1113Shell aliases.
1114.El
1115.Pp
1116These are copied from the parent shell environment,
1117except that trapped (but not ignored) signals are reset to the default action
1118and known jobs are cleared.
1119Any changes do not affect the parent shell environment.
1120.Pp
1121A subshell environment may be implemented as a child process or differently.
1122If job control is enabled in an interactive shell,
1123commands grouped in parentheses can be suspended and continued as a unit.
1124.Pp
1125For compatibility with other shells,
1126two open parentheses in sequence should be separated by whitespace.
1127.Pp
1128The second form never forks another shell,
1129so it is slightly more efficient.
1130Grouping commands together this way allows the user to
1131redirect their output as though they were one program:
1132.Bd -literal -offset indent
1133{ echo -n "hello"; echo " world"; } > greeting
1134.Ed
1135.Ss Functions
1136The syntax of a function definition is
1137.Pp
1138.D1 Ar name Li \&( \&) Ar command
1139.Pp
1140A function definition is an executable statement; when
1141executed it installs a function named
1142.Ar name
1143and returns an
1144exit status of zero.
1145The
1146.Ar command
1147is normally a list
1148enclosed between
1149.Ql {
1150and
1151.Ql } .
1152.Pp
1153Variables may be declared to be local to a function by
1154using the
1155.Ic local
1156command.
1157This should appear as the first statement of a function,
1158and the syntax is:
1159.Pp
1160.D1 Ic local Oo Ar variable ... Oc Op Fl
1161.Pp
1162The
1163.Ic local
1164command is implemented as a built-in command.
1165The exit status is zero
1166unless the command is not in a function or a variable name is invalid.
1167.Pp
1168When a variable is made local, it inherits the initial
1169value and exported and readonly flags from the variable
1170with the same name in the surrounding scope, if there is
1171one.
1172Otherwise, the variable is initially unset.
1173The shell
1174uses dynamic scoping, so that if the variable
1175.Va x
1176is made local to function
1177.Em f ,
1178which then calls function
1179.Em g ,
1180references to the variable
1181.Va x
1182made inside
1183.Em g
1184will refer to the variable
1185.Va x
1186declared inside
1187.Em f ,
1188not to the global variable named
1189.Va x .
1190.Pp
1191The only special parameter that can be made local is
1192.Ql - .
1193Making
1194.Ql -
1195local causes any shell options
1196(including those that only have long names)
1197that are
1198changed via the
1199.Ic set
1200command inside the function to be
1201restored to their original values when the function
1202returns.
1203.Pp
1204The syntax of the
1205.Ic return
1206command is
1207.Pp
1208.D1 Ic return Op Ar exitstatus
1209.Pp
1210It terminates the current executional scope, returning from the closest
1211nested function or sourced script;
1212if no function or sourced script is being executed,
1213it exits the shell instance.
1214The
1215.Ic return
1216command is implemented as a special built-in command.
1217.Ss Variables and Parameters
1218The shell maintains a set of parameters.
1219A parameter
1220denoted by a name
1221(consisting solely
1222of alphabetics, numerics, and underscores,
1223and starting with an alphabetic or an underscore)
1224is called a variable.
1225When starting up,
1226the shell turns all environment variables with valid names into shell
1227variables.
1228New variables can be set using the form
1229.Pp
1230.D1 Ar name Ns = Ns Ar value
1231.Pp
1232A parameter can also be denoted by a number
1233or a special character as explained below.
1234.Pp
1235Assignments are expanded differently from other words:
1236tilde expansion is also performed after the equals sign and after any colon
1237and usernames are also terminated by colons,
1238and field splitting and pathname expansion are not performed.
1239.Pp
1240This special expansion applies not only to assignments that form a simple
1241command by themselves or precede a command word,
1242but also to words passed to the
1243.Ic export ,
1244.Ic local
1245or
1246.Ic readonly
1247built-in commands that have this form.
1248For this, the builtin's name must be literal
1249(not the result of an expansion)
1250and may optionally be preceded by one or more literal instances of
1251.Ic command
1252without options.
1253.Ss Positional Parameters
1254A positional parameter is a parameter denoted by a number greater than zero.
1255The shell sets these initially to the values of its command line
1256arguments that follow the name of the shell script.
1257The
1258.Ic set
1259built-in command can also be used to set or reset them.
1260.Ss Special Parameters
1261Special parameters are parameters denoted by a single special character
1262or the digit zero.
1263They are shown in the following list, exactly as they would appear in input
1264typed by the user or in the source of a shell script.
1265.Bl -hang
1266.It Li $*
1267Expands to the positional parameters, starting from one.
1268When
1269the expansion occurs within a double-quoted string
1270it expands to a single field with the value of each parameter
1271separated by the first character of the
1272.Va IFS
1273variable,
1274or by a space if
1275.Va IFS
1276is unset.
1277.It Li $@
1278Expands to the positional parameters, starting from one.
1279When
1280the expansion occurs within double-quotes, each positional
1281parameter expands as a separate argument.
1282If there are no positional parameters, the
1283expansion of
1284.Li @
1285generates zero arguments, even when
1286.Li @
1287is double-quoted.
1288What this basically means, for example, is
1289if
1290.Li $1
1291is
1292.Dq Li abc
1293and
1294.Li $2
1295is
1296.Dq Li "def ghi" ,
1297then
1298.Li \&"$@\&"
1299expands to
1300the two arguments:
1301.Bd -literal -offset indent
1302"abc"   "def ghi"
1303.Ed
1304.It Li $#
1305Expands to the number of positional parameters.
1306.It Li $?
1307Expands to the exit status of the most recent pipeline.
1308.It Li $-
1309(hyphen) Expands to the current option flags (the single-letter
1310option names concatenated into a string) as specified on
1311invocation, by the
1312.Ic set
1313built-in command, or implicitly
1314by the shell.
1315.It Li $$
1316Expands to the process ID of the invoked shell.
1317A subshell
1318retains the same value of
1319.Va $
1320as its parent.
1321.It Li $!
1322Expands to the process ID of the most recent background
1323command executed from the current shell.
1324For a
1325pipeline, the process ID is that of the last command in the
1326pipeline.
1327If this parameter is referenced, the shell will remember
1328the process ID and its exit status until the
1329.Ic wait
1330built-in command reports completion of the process.
1331.It Li $0
1332(zero) Expands to the name of the shell script if passed on the command line,
1333the
1334.Ar name
1335operand if given (with
1336.Fl c )
1337or otherwise argument 0 passed to the shell.
1338.El
1339.Ss Special Variables
1340The following variables are set by the shell or
1341have special meaning to it:
1342.Bl -tag -width ".Va HISTSIZE"
1343.It Va CDPATH
1344The search path used with the
1345.Ic cd
1346built-in.
1347.It Va EDITOR
1348The fallback editor used with the
1349.Ic fc
1350built-in.
1351If not set, the default editor is
1352.Xr ed 1 .
1353.It Va FCEDIT
1354The default editor used with the
1355.Ic fc
1356built-in.
1357.It Va HISTFILE
1358File used for persistent history storage.
1359If unset
1360.Pa ~/.sh_history
1361will be used.
1362If set but empty or
1363.Va HISTSIZE
1364is set to 0
1365the shell will not load and save the history.
1366.It Va HISTSIZE
1367The number of previous commands that are accessible.
1368.It Va HOME
1369The user's home directory,
1370used in tilde expansion and as a default directory for the
1371.Ic cd
1372built-in.
1373.It Va IFS
1374Input Field Separators.
1375This is initialized at startup to
1376.Aq space ,
1377.Aq tab ,
1378and
1379.Aq newline
1380in that order.
1381This value also applies if
1382.Va IFS
1383is unset, but not if it is set to the empty string.
1384See the
1385.Sx White Space Splitting
1386section for more details.
1387.It Va LINENO
1388The current line number in the script or function.
1389.It Va MAIL
1390The name of a mail file, that will be checked for the arrival of new
1391mail.
1392Overridden by
1393.Va MAILPATH .
1394.It Va MAILPATH
1395A colon
1396.Pq Ql \&:
1397separated list of file names, for the shell to check for incoming
1398mail.
1399This variable overrides the
1400.Va MAIL
1401setting.
1402There is a maximum of 10 mailboxes that can be monitored at once.
1403.It Va OPTIND
1404The index of the next argument to be processed by
1405.Ic getopts .
1406This is initialized to 1 at startup.
1407.It Va PATH
1408The default search path for executables.
1409See the
1410.Sx Path Search
1411section for details.
1412.It Va PPID
1413The parent process ID of the invoked shell.
1414This is set at startup
1415unless this variable is in the environment.
1416A later change of parent process ID is not reflected.
1417A subshell retains the same value of
1418.Va PPID .
1419.It Va PS1
1420The primary prompt string, which defaults to
1421.Dq Li "$ " ,
1422unless you are the superuser, in which case it defaults to
1423.Dq Li "# " .
1424.Va PS1
1425may include any of the following formatting sequences,
1426which are replaced by the given information:
1427.Bl -tag -width indent
1428.It Li \eD{format}
1429The current time in
1430.Xr strftime 3
1431.Ar format .
1432The braces are required.
1433Empty
1434.Ar format
1435is equivalent to
1436\&%X,
1437national representation of the time.
1438.It Li \eH
1439This system's fully-qualified hostname (FQDN).
1440.It Li \eh
1441This system's hostname.
1442.It Li \eu
1443User name.
1444.It Li \eW
1445The final component of the current working directory.
1446.It Li \ew
1447The entire path of the current working directory.
1448.It Li \e$
1449Superuser status.
1450.Dq Li "$"
1451for normal users and
1452.Dq Li "#"
1453for superusers.
1454.It Li \e\e
1455A literal backslash.
1456.It Li \e[
1457Start of a sequence of non-printing characters (used, for example,
1458to embed ANSI CSI sequences into the prompt).
1459.It Li \e]
1460End of a sequence of non-printing characters.
1461.El
1462.Pp
1463The following special and non-printing characters are supported
1464within the sequence of non-printing characters:
1465.Bl -tag -width indent
1466.It Li \ea
1467Emits ASCII BEL (0x07, 007) character.
1468.It Li \ee
1469Emits ASCII ESC (0x1b, 033) character.
1470.It Li \er
1471Emits ASCII CR (0x0d, 015) character.
1472.It Li \en
1473Emits CRLF sequence.
1474.El
1475.It Va PS2
1476The secondary prompt string, which defaults to
1477.Dq Li "> " .
1478.Va PS2
1479may include any of the formatting sequences from
1480.Va PS1 .
1481.It Va PS4
1482The prefix for the trace output (if
1483.Fl x
1484is active).
1485The default is
1486.Dq Li "+ " .
1487.El
1488.Ss Word Expansions
1489This clause describes the various expansions that are
1490performed on words.
1491Not all expansions are performed on
1492every word, as explained later.
1493.Pp
1494Tilde expansions, parameter expansions, command substitutions,
1495arithmetic expansions, and quote removals that occur within
1496a single word expand to a single field.
1497It is only field
1498splitting or pathname expansion that can create multiple
1499fields from a single word.
1500The single exception to this rule is
1501the expansion of the special parameter
1502.Va @
1503within double-quotes,
1504as was described above.
1505.Pp
1506The order of word expansion is:
1507.Bl -enum
1508.It
1509Tilde Expansion, Parameter Expansion, Command Substitution,
1510Arithmetic Expansion (these all occur at the same time).
1511.It
1512Field Splitting is performed on fields generated by step (1)
1513unless the
1514.Va IFS
1515variable is null.
1516.It
1517Pathname Expansion (unless the
1518.Fl f
1519option is in effect).
1520.It
1521Quote Removal.
1522.El
1523.Pp
1524The
1525.Ql $
1526character is used to introduce parameter expansion, command
1527substitution, or arithmetic expansion.
1528.Ss Tilde Expansion (substituting a user's home directory)
1529A word beginning with an unquoted tilde character
1530.Pq Ql ~
1531is
1532subjected to tilde expansion.
1533All the characters up to a slash
1534.Pq Ql /
1535or the end of the word are treated as a username
1536and are replaced with the user's home directory.
1537If the
1538username is missing (as in
1539.Pa ~/foobar ) ,
1540the tilde is replaced with the value of the
1541.Va HOME
1542variable (the current user's home directory).
1543.Ss Parameter Expansion
1544The format for parameter expansion is as follows:
1545.Pp
1546.D1 Li ${ Ns Ar expression Ns Li }
1547.Pp
1548where
1549.Ar expression
1550consists of all characters until the matching
1551.Ql } .
1552Any
1553.Ql }
1554escaped by a backslash or within a single-quoted or double-quoted
1555string, and characters in
1556embedded arithmetic expansions, command substitutions, and variable
1557expansions, are not examined in determining the matching
1558.Ql } .
1559If the variants with
1560.Ql + ,
1561.Ql - ,
1562.Ql =
1563or
1564.Ql ?\&
1565occur within a double-quoted string,
1566as an extension there may be unquoted parts
1567(via double-quotes inside the expansion);
1568.Ql }
1569within such parts are also not examined in determining the matching
1570.Ql } .
1571.Pp
1572The simplest form for parameter expansion is:
1573.Pp
1574.D1 Li ${ Ns Ar parameter Ns Li }
1575.Pp
1576The value, if any, of
1577.Ar parameter
1578is substituted.
1579.Pp
1580The parameter name or symbol can be enclosed in braces, which are
1581optional except for positional parameters with more than one digit or
1582when parameter is followed by a character that could be interpreted as
1583part of the name.
1584If a parameter expansion occurs inside double-quotes:
1585.Bl -enum
1586.It
1587Field splitting is not performed on the results of the
1588expansion, with the exception of the special parameter
1589.Va @ .
1590.It
1591Pathname expansion is not performed on the results of the
1592expansion.
1593.El
1594.Pp
1595In addition, a parameter expansion can be modified by using one of the
1596following formats.
1597.Bl -tag -width indent
1598.It Li ${ Ns Ar parameter Ns Li :- Ns Ar word Ns Li }
1599Use Default Values.
1600If
1601.Ar parameter
1602is unset or null, the expansion of
1603.Ar word
1604is substituted; otherwise, the value of
1605.Ar parameter
1606is substituted.
1607.It Li ${ Ns Ar parameter Ns Li := Ns Ar word Ns Li }
1608Assign Default Values.
1609If
1610.Ar parameter
1611is unset or null, the expansion of
1612.Ar word
1613is assigned to
1614.Ar parameter .
1615In all cases, the
1616final value of
1617.Ar parameter
1618is substituted.
1619Quoting inside
1620.Ar word
1621does not prevent field splitting or pathname expansion.
1622Only variables, not positional
1623parameters or special parameters, can be
1624assigned in this way.
1625.It Li ${ Ns Ar parameter Ns Li :? Ns Oo Ar word Oc Ns Li }
1626Indicate Error if Null or Unset.
1627If
1628.Ar parameter
1629is unset or null, the expansion of
1630.Ar word
1631(or a message indicating it is unset if
1632.Ar word
1633is omitted) is written to standard
1634error and the shell exits with a nonzero
1635exit status.
1636Otherwise, the value of
1637.Ar parameter
1638is substituted.
1639An
1640interactive shell need not exit.
1641.It Li ${ Ns Ar parameter Ns Li :+ Ns Ar word Ns Li }
1642Use Alternate Value.
1643If
1644.Ar parameter
1645is unset or null, null is substituted;
1646otherwise, the expansion of
1647.Ar word
1648is substituted.
1649.El
1650.Pp
1651In the parameter expansions shown previously, use of the colon in the
1652format results in a test for a parameter that is unset or null; omission
1653of the colon results in a test for a parameter that is only unset.
1654.Pp
1655The
1656.Ar word
1657inherits the type of quoting
1658(unquoted, double-quoted or here-document)
1659from the surroundings,
1660with the exception that a backslash that quotes a closing brace is removed
1661during quote removal.
1662.Bl -tag -width indent
1663.It Li ${# Ns Ar parameter Ns Li }
1664String Length.
1665The length in characters of
1666the value of
1667.Ar parameter .
1668.El
1669.Pp
1670The following four varieties of parameter expansion provide for substring
1671processing.
1672In each case, pattern matching notation
1673(see
1674.Sx Shell Patterns ) ,
1675rather than regular expression notation,
1676is used to evaluate the patterns.
1677If parameter is one of the special parameters
1678.Va *
1679or
1680.Va @ ,
1681the result of the expansion is unspecified.
1682Enclosing the full parameter expansion string in double-quotes does not
1683cause the following four varieties of pattern characters to be quoted,
1684whereas quoting characters within the braces has this effect.
1685.Bl -tag -width indent
1686.It Li ${ Ns Ar parameter Ns Li % Ns Ar word Ns Li }
1687Remove Smallest Suffix Pattern.
1688The
1689.Ar word
1690is expanded to produce a pattern.
1691The
1692parameter expansion then results in
1693.Ar parameter ,
1694with the smallest portion of the
1695suffix matched by the pattern deleted.
1696.It Li ${ Ns Ar parameter Ns Li %% Ns Ar word Ns Li }
1697Remove Largest Suffix Pattern.
1698The
1699.Ar word
1700is expanded to produce a pattern.
1701The
1702parameter expansion then results in
1703.Ar parameter ,
1704with the largest portion of the
1705suffix matched by the pattern deleted.
1706.It Li ${ Ns Ar parameter Ns Li # Ns Ar word Ns Li }
1707Remove Smallest Prefix Pattern.
1708The
1709.Ar word
1710is expanded to produce a pattern.
1711The
1712parameter expansion then results in
1713.Ar parameter ,
1714with the smallest portion of the
1715prefix matched by the pattern deleted.
1716.It Li ${ Ns Ar parameter Ns Li ## Ns Ar word Ns Li }
1717Remove Largest Prefix Pattern.
1718The
1719.Ar word
1720is expanded to produce a pattern.
1721The
1722parameter expansion then results in
1723.Ar parameter ,
1724with the largest portion of the
1725prefix matched by the pattern deleted.
1726.El
1727.Ss Command Substitution
1728Command substitution allows the output of a command to be substituted in
1729place of the command name itself.
1730Command substitution occurs when
1731the command is enclosed as follows:
1732.Pp
1733.D1 Li $( Ns Ar command Ns Li )\&
1734.Pp
1735or the backquoted version:
1736.Pp
1737.D1 Li ` Ns Ar command Ns Li `
1738.Pp
1739The shell expands the command substitution by executing command
1740and replacing the command substitution
1741with the standard output of the command,
1742removing sequences of one or more newlines at the end of the substitution.
1743Embedded newlines before the end of the output are not removed;
1744however, during field splitting, they may be translated into spaces
1745depending on the value of
1746.Va IFS
1747and the quoting that is in effect.
1748The command is executed in a subshell environment,
1749except that the built-in commands
1750.Ic jobid ,
1751.Ic jobs ,
1752and
1753.Ic trap
1754return information about the parent shell environment
1755and
1756.Ic times
1757returns information about the same process
1758if they are the only command in a command substitution.
1759.Pp
1760If a command substitution of the
1761.Li $(
1762form begins with a subshell,
1763the
1764.Li $(
1765and
1766.Li (\&
1767must be separated by whitespace
1768to avoid ambiguity with arithmetic expansion.
1769.Ss Arithmetic Expansion
1770Arithmetic expansion provides a mechanism for evaluating an arithmetic
1771expression and substituting its value.
1772The format for arithmetic expansion is as follows:
1773.Pp
1774.D1 Li $(( Ns Ar expression Ns Li ))
1775.Pp
1776The
1777.Ar expression
1778is treated as if it were in double-quotes, except
1779that a double-quote inside the expression is not treated specially.
1780The
1781shell expands all tokens in the
1782.Ar expression
1783for parameter expansion,
1784command substitution,
1785arithmetic expansion
1786and quote removal.
1787.Pp
1788The allowed expressions are a subset of C expressions,
1789summarized below.
1790.Bl -tag -width "Variables" -offset indent
1791.It Values
1792All values are of type
1793.Ft intmax_t .
1794.It Constants
1795Decimal, octal (starting with
1796.Li 0 )
1797and hexadecimal (starting with
1798.Li 0x )
1799integer constants.
1800.It Variables
1801Shell variables can be read and written
1802and contain integer constants.
1803.It Unary operators
1804.Li "! ~ + -"
1805.It Binary operators
1806.Li "* / % + - << >> < <= > >= == != & ^ | && ||"\&
1807.It Assignment operators
1808.Li "= += -= *= /= %= <<= >>= &= ^= |="
1809.It Conditional operator
1810.Li "? :"\&
1811.El
1812.Pp
1813The result of the expression is substituted in decimal.
1814.Ss White Space Splitting (Field Splitting)
1815In certain contexts,
1816after parameter expansion, command substitution, and
1817arithmetic expansion the shell scans the results of
1818expansions and substitutions that did not occur in double-quotes for
1819field splitting and multiple fields can result.
1820.Pp
1821Characters in
1822.Va IFS
1823that are whitespace
1824.Po
1825.Aq space ,
1826.Aq tab ,
1827and
1828.Aq newline
1829.Pc
1830are treated differently from other characters in
1831.Va IFS .
1832.Pp
1833Whitespace in
1834.Va IFS
1835at the beginning or end of a word is discarded.
1836.Pp
1837Subsequently, a field is delimited by either
1838.Bl -enum
1839.It
1840a non-whitespace character in
1841.Va IFS
1842with any whitespace in
1843.Va IFS
1844surrounding it, or
1845.It
1846one or more whitespace characters in
1847.Va IFS .
1848.El
1849.Pp
1850If a word ends with a non-whitespace character in
1851.Va IFS ,
1852there is no empty field after this character.
1853.Pp
1854If no field is delimited, the word is discarded.
1855In particular, if a word consists solely of an unquoted substitution
1856and the result of the substitution is null,
1857it is removed by field splitting even if
1858.Va IFS
1859is null.
1860.Ss Pathname Expansion (File Name Generation)
1861Unless the
1862.Fl f
1863option is set,
1864file name generation is performed
1865after word splitting is complete.
1866Each word is
1867viewed as a series of patterns, separated by slashes.
1868The
1869process of expansion replaces the word with the names of
1870all existing files whose names can be formed by replacing
1871each pattern with a string that matches the specified pattern.
1872There are two restrictions on this: first, a pattern cannot match
1873a string containing a slash, and second,
1874a pattern cannot match a string starting with a period
1875unless the first character of the pattern is a period.
1876The next section describes the patterns used for
1877Pathname Expansion,
1878the four varieties of parameter expansion for substring processing and the
1879.Ic case
1880command.
1881.Ss Shell Patterns
1882A pattern consists of normal characters, which match themselves,
1883and meta-characters.
1884The meta-characters are
1885.Ql * ,
1886.Ql \&? ,
1887and
1888.Ql \&[ .
1889These characters lose their special meanings if they are quoted.
1890When command or variable substitution is performed and the dollar sign
1891or back quotes are not double-quoted, the value of the
1892variable or the output of the command is scanned for these
1893characters and they are turned into meta-characters.
1894.Pp
1895An asterisk
1896.Pq Ql *
1897matches any string of characters.
1898A question mark
1899.Pq Ql \&?
1900matches any single character.
1901A left bracket
1902.Pq Ql \&[
1903introduces a character class.
1904The end of the character class is indicated by a
1905.Ql \&] ;
1906if the
1907.Ql \&]
1908is missing then the
1909.Ql \&[
1910matches a
1911.Ql \&[
1912rather than introducing a character class.
1913A character class matches any of the characters between the square brackets.
1914A locale-dependent range of characters may be specified using a minus sign.
1915A named class of characters (see
1916.Xr wctype 3 )
1917may be specified by surrounding the name with
1918.Ql \&[:\&
1919and
1920.Ql :\&] .
1921For example,
1922.Ql \&[\&[:alpha:\&]\&]
1923is a shell pattern that matches a single letter.
1924The character class may be complemented by making an exclamation point
1925.Pq Ql !\&
1926the first character of the character class.
1927A caret
1928.Pq Ql ^
1929has the same effect but is non-standard.
1930.Pp
1931To include a
1932.Ql \&]
1933in a character class, make it the first character listed
1934(after the
1935.Ql \&!
1936or
1937.Ql ^ ,
1938if any).
1939To include a
1940.Ql - ,
1941make it the first or last character listed.
1942.Ss Built-in Commands
1943This section lists the built-in commands.
1944.Bl -tag -width indent
1945.It Ic \&:
1946A null command that returns a 0 (true) exit value.
1947.It Ic \&. Ar file
1948The commands in the specified file are read and executed by the shell.
1949The
1950.Ic return
1951command may be used to return to the
1952.Ic \&.
1953command's caller.
1954If
1955.Ar file
1956contains any
1957.Ql /
1958characters, it is used as is.
1959Otherwise, the shell searches the
1960.Va PATH
1961for the file.
1962If it is not found in the
1963.Va PATH ,
1964it is sought in the current working directory.
1965.It Ic \&[
1966A built-in equivalent of
1967.Xr test 1 .
1968.It Ic alias Oo Ar name Ns Oo = Ns Ar string Oc ... Oc
1969If
1970.Ar name Ns = Ns Ar string
1971is specified, the shell defines the alias
1972.Ar name
1973with value
1974.Ar string .
1975If just
1976.Ar name
1977is specified, the value of the alias
1978.Ar name
1979is printed.
1980With no arguments, the
1981.Ic alias
1982built-in command prints the names and values of all defined aliases
1983(see
1984.Ic unalias ) .
1985Alias values are written with appropriate quoting so that they are
1986suitable for re-input to the shell.
1987Also see the
1988.Sx Aliases
1989subsection.
1990.It Ic bg Op Ar job ...
1991Continue the specified jobs
1992(or the current job if no jobs are given)
1993in the background.
1994.It Ic bind Oo Fl aeklrsv Oc Oo Ar key Oo Ar command Oc Oc
1995List or alter key bindings for the line editor.
1996This command is documented in
1997.Xr editrc 5 .
1998.It Ic break Op Ar num
1999See the
2000.Sx Flow-Control Constructs
2001subsection.
2002.It Ic builtin Ar cmd Op Ar arg ...
2003Execute the specified built-in command,
2004.Ar cmd .
2005This is useful when the user wishes to override a shell function
2006with the same name as a built-in command.
2007.It Ic cd Oo Fl L | P Oc Oo Fl e Oc Op Ar directory
2008.It Ic cd Fl
2009Switch to the specified
2010.Ar directory ,
2011to the directory specified in the
2012.Va HOME
2013environment variable if no
2014.Ar directory
2015is specified or
2016to the directory specified in the
2017.Va OLDPWD
2018environment variable if
2019.Ar directory
2020is
2021.Fl .
2022If
2023.Ar directory
2024does not begin with
2025.Pa / , \&. ,
2026or
2027.Pa .. ,
2028then the directories listed in the
2029.Va CDPATH
2030variable will be
2031searched for the specified
2032.Ar directory .
2033If
2034.Va CDPATH
2035is unset, the current directory is searched.
2036The format of
2037.Va CDPATH
2038is the same as that of
2039.Va PATH .
2040In an interactive shell,
2041the
2042.Ic cd
2043command will print out the name of the directory
2044that it actually switched to
2045if the
2046.Va CDPATH
2047mechanism was used or if
2048.Ar directory
2049was
2050.Fl .
2051.Pp
2052If the
2053.Fl P
2054option is specified,
2055.Pa ..
2056is handled physically and symbolic links are resolved before
2057.Pa ..
2058components are processed.
2059If the
2060.Fl L
2061option is specified,
2062.Pa ..
2063is handled logically.
2064This is the default.
2065.Pp
2066The
2067.Fl e
2068option causes
2069.Ic cd
2070to return exit status 1 if the full pathname of the new directory
2071cannot be determined reliably or at all.
2072Normally this is not considered an error,
2073although a warning is printed.
2074.Pp
2075If changing the directory fails, the exit status is greater than 1.
2076If the directory is changed, the exit status is 0, or also 1 if
2077.Fl e
2078was given.
2079.It Ic chdir
2080A synonym for the
2081.Ic cd
2082built-in command.
2083.It Ic command Oo Fl p Oc Op Ar utility Op Ar argument ...
2084.It Ic command Oo Fl p Oc Fl v Ar utility
2085.It Ic command Oo Fl p Oc Fl V Ar utility
2086The first form of invocation executes the specified
2087.Ar utility ,
2088ignoring shell functions in the search.
2089If
2090.Ar utility
2091is a special builtin,
2092it is executed as if it were a regular builtin.
2093.Pp
2094If the
2095.Fl p
2096option is specified, the command search is performed using a
2097default value of
2098.Va PATH
2099that is guaranteed to find all of the standard utilities.
2100.Pp
2101If the
2102.Fl v
2103option is specified,
2104.Ar utility
2105is not executed but a description of its interpretation by the shell is
2106printed.
2107For ordinary commands the output is the path name; for shell built-in
2108commands, shell functions and keywords only the name is written.
2109Aliases are printed as
2110.Dq Ic alias Ar name Ns = Ns Ar value .
2111.Pp
2112The
2113.Fl V
2114option is identical to
2115.Fl v
2116except for the output.
2117It prints
2118.Dq Ar utility Ic is Ar description
2119where
2120.Ar description
2121is either
2122the path name to
2123.Ar utility ,
2124a special shell builtin,
2125a shell builtin,
2126a shell function,
2127a shell keyword
2128or
2129an alias for
2130.Ar value .
2131.It Ic continue Op Ar num
2132See the
2133.Sx Flow-Control Constructs
2134subsection.
2135.It Ic echo Oo Fl e | n Oc Op Ar string ...
2136Print a space-separated list of the arguments to the standard output
2137and append a newline character.
2138.Bl -tag -width indent
2139.It Fl n
2140Suppress the output of the trailing newline.
2141.It Fl e
2142Process C-style backslash escape sequences.
2143The
2144.Ic echo
2145command understands the following character escapes:
2146.Bl -tag -width indent
2147.It \ea
2148Alert (ring the terminal bell)
2149.It \eb
2150Backspace
2151.It \ec
2152Suppress the trailing newline (this has the side-effect of truncating the
2153line if it is not the last character)
2154.It \ee
2155The ESC character (ASCII 0x1b)
2156.It \ef
2157Formfeed
2158.It \en
2159Newline
2160.It \er
2161Carriage return
2162.It \et
2163Horizontal tab
2164.It \ev
2165Vertical tab
2166.It \e\e
2167Literal backslash
2168.It \e0nnn
2169(Zero) The character whose octal value is
2170.Ar nnn
2171.El
2172.Pp
2173If
2174.Ar string
2175is not enclosed in quotes then the backslash itself must be escaped
2176with a backslash to protect it from the shell.
2177For example
2178.Bd -literal -offset indent
2179$ echo -e "a\evb"
2180a
2181 b
2182$ echo -e a\e\evb
2183a
2184 b
2185$ echo -e "a\e\eb"
2186a\eb
2187$ echo -e a\e\e\e\eb
2188a\eb
2189.Ed
2190.El
2191.Pp
2192Only one of the
2193.Fl e
2194and
2195.Fl n
2196options may be specified.
2197.It Ic eval Ar string ...
2198Concatenate all the arguments with spaces.
2199Then re-parse and execute the command.
2200.It Ic exec Op Ar command Op arg ...
2201Unless
2202.Ar command
2203is omitted,
2204the shell process is replaced with the specified program
2205(which must be a real program, not a shell built-in command or function).
2206Any redirections on the
2207.Ic exec
2208command are marked as permanent,
2209so that they are not undone when the
2210.Ic exec
2211command finishes.
2212.It Ic exit Op Ar exitstatus
2213Terminate the shell process.
2214If
2215.Ar exitstatus
2216is given
2217it is used as the exit status of the shell.
2218Otherwise, if the shell is executing an
2219.Cm EXIT
2220trap, the exit status of the last command before the trap is used;
2221if the shell is executing a trap for a signal,
2222the shell exits by resending the signal to itself.
2223Otherwise, the exit status of the preceding command is used.
2224The exit status should be an integer between 0 and 255.
2225.It Ic export Ar name ...
2226.It Ic export Op Fl p
2227The specified names are exported so that they will
2228appear in the environment of subsequent commands.
2229The only way to un-export a variable is to
2230.Ic unset
2231it.
2232The shell allows the value of a variable to be set
2233at the same time as it is exported by writing
2234.Pp
2235.D1 Ic export Ar name Ns = Ns Ar value
2236.Pp
2237With no arguments the
2238.Ic export
2239command lists the names
2240of all exported variables.
2241If the
2242.Fl p
2243option is specified, the exported variables are printed as
2244.Dq Ic export Ar name Ns = Ns Ar value
2245lines, suitable for re-input to the shell.
2246.It Ic false
2247A null command that returns a non-zero (false) exit value.
2248.It Ic fc Oo Fl e Ar editor Oc Op Ar first Op Ar last
2249.It Ic fc Fl l Oo Fl nr Oc Op Ar first Op Ar last
2250.It Ic fc Fl s Oo Ar old Ns = Ns Ar new Oc Op Ar first
2251The
2252.Ic fc
2253built-in command lists, or edits and re-executes,
2254commands previously entered to an interactive shell.
2255.Bl -tag -width indent
2256.It Fl e Ar editor
2257Use the editor named by
2258.Ar editor
2259to edit the commands.
2260The
2261.Ar editor
2262string is a command name,
2263subject to search via the
2264.Va PATH
2265variable.
2266The value in the
2267.Va FCEDIT
2268variable is used as a default when
2269.Fl e
2270is not specified.
2271If
2272.Va FCEDIT
2273is null or unset, the value of the
2274.Va EDITOR
2275variable is used.
2276If
2277.Va EDITOR
2278is null or unset,
2279.Xr ed 1
2280is used as the editor.
2281.It Fl l No (ell)
2282List the commands rather than invoking
2283an editor on them.
2284The commands are written in the
2285sequence indicated by the
2286.Ar first
2287and
2288.Ar last
2289operands, as affected by
2290.Fl r ,
2291with each command preceded by the command number.
2292.It Fl n
2293Suppress command numbers when listing with
2294.Fl l .
2295.It Fl r
2296Reverse the order of the commands listed
2297(with
2298.Fl l )
2299or edited
2300(with neither
2301.Fl l
2302nor
2303.Fl s ) .
2304.It Fl s
2305Re-execute the command without invoking an editor.
2306.It Ar first
2307.It Ar last
2308Select the commands to list or edit.
2309The number of previous commands that can be accessed
2310are determined by the value of the
2311.Va HISTSIZE
2312variable.
2313The value of
2314.Ar first
2315or
2316.Ar last
2317or both are one of the following:
2318.Bl -tag -width indent
2319.It Oo Cm + Oc Ns Ar num
2320A positive number representing a command number;
2321command numbers can be displayed with the
2322.Fl l
2323option.
2324.It Fl Ar num
2325A negative decimal number representing the
2326command that was executed
2327.Ar num
2328of
2329commands previously.
2330For example, \-1 is the immediately previous command.
2331.It Ar string
2332A string indicating the most recently entered command
2333that begins with that string.
2334If the
2335.Ar old Ns = Ns Ar new
2336operand is not also specified with
2337.Fl s ,
2338the string form of the first operand cannot contain an embedded equal sign.
2339.El
2340.El
2341.Pp
2342The following variables affect the execution of
2343.Ic fc :
2344.Bl -tag -width ".Va HISTSIZE"
2345.It Va FCEDIT
2346Name of the editor to use for history editing.
2347.It Va HISTSIZE
2348The number of previous commands that are accessible.
2349.El
2350.It Ic fg Op Ar job
2351Move the specified
2352.Ar job
2353or the current job to the foreground.
2354.It Ic getopts Ar optstring var
2355The POSIX
2356.Ic getopts
2357command.
2358The
2359.Ic getopts
2360command deprecates the older
2361.Xr getopt 1
2362command.
2363The first argument should be a series of letters, each possibly
2364followed by a colon which indicates that the option takes an argument.
2365The specified variable is set to the parsed option.
2366The index of
2367the next argument is placed into the shell variable
2368.Va OPTIND .
2369If an option takes an argument, it is placed into the shell variable
2370.Va OPTARG .
2371If an invalid option is encountered,
2372.Ar var
2373is set to
2374.Ql \&? .
2375It returns a false value (1) when it encounters the end of the options.
2376A new set of arguments may be parsed by assigning
2377.Li OPTIND=1 .
2378.It Ic hash Oo Fl rv Oc Op Ar command ...
2379The shell maintains a hash table which remembers the locations of commands.
2380With no arguments whatsoever, the
2381.Ic hash
2382command prints out the contents of this table.
2383.Pp
2384With arguments, the
2385.Ic hash
2386command removes each specified
2387.Ar command
2388from the hash table (unless they are functions) and then locates it.
2389With the
2390.Fl v
2391option,
2392.Ic hash
2393prints the locations of the commands as it finds them.
2394The
2395.Fl r
2396option causes the
2397.Ic hash
2398command to delete all the entries in the hash table except for functions.
2399.It Ic jobid Op Ar job
2400Print the process IDs of the processes in the specified
2401.Ar job .
2402If the
2403.Ar job
2404argument is omitted, use the current job.
2405.It Ic jobs Oo Fl lps Oc Op Ar job ...
2406Print information about the specified jobs, or all jobs if no
2407.Ar job
2408argument is given.
2409The information printed includes job ID, status and command name.
2410.Pp
2411If the
2412.Fl l
2413option is specified, the PID of each job is also printed.
2414If the
2415.Fl p
2416option is specified, only the process IDs for the process group leaders
2417are printed, one per line.
2418If the
2419.Fl s
2420option is specified, only the PIDs of the job commands are printed, one per
2421line.
2422.It Ic kill
2423A built-in equivalent of
2424.Xr kill 1
2425that additionally supports sending signals to jobs.
2426.It Ic local Oo Ar variable ... Oc Op Fl
2427See the
2428.Sx Functions
2429subsection.
2430.It Ic printf
2431A built-in equivalent of
2432.Xr printf 1 .
2433.It Ic pwd Op Fl L | P
2434Print the path of the current directory.
2435The built-in command may
2436differ from the program of the same name because the
2437built-in command remembers what the current directory
2438is rather than recomputing it each time.
2439This makes
2440it faster.
2441However, if the current directory is
2442renamed,
2443the built-in version of
2444.Xr pwd 1
2445will continue to print the old name for the directory.
2446.Pp
2447If the
2448.Fl P
2449option is specified, symbolic links are resolved.
2450If the
2451.Fl L
2452option is specified, the shell's notion of the current directory
2453is printed (symbolic links are not resolved).
2454This is the default.
2455.It Ic read Oo Fl p Ar prompt Oc Oo
2456.Fl t Ar timeout Oc Oo Fl er Oc Ar variable ...
2457The
2458.Ar prompt
2459is printed if the
2460.Fl p
2461option is specified
2462and the standard input is a terminal.
2463Then a line is
2464read from the standard input.
2465The trailing newline
2466is deleted from the line and the line is split as
2467described in the section on
2468.Sx White Space Splitting (Field Splitting)\&
2469above, and
2470the pieces are assigned to the variables in order.
2471If there are more pieces than variables, the remaining
2472pieces (along with the characters in
2473.Va IFS
2474that separated them)
2475are assigned to the last variable.
2476If there are more variables than pieces, the remaining
2477variables are assigned the null string.
2478.Pp
2479Backslashes are treated specially, unless the
2480.Fl r
2481option is
2482specified.
2483If a backslash is followed by
2484a newline, the backslash and the newline will be
2485deleted.
2486If a backslash is followed by any other
2487character, the backslash will be deleted and the following
2488character will be treated as though it were not in
2489.Va IFS ,
2490even if it is.
2491.Pp
2492If the
2493.Fl t
2494option is specified and the
2495.Ar timeout
2496elapses before a complete line of input is supplied,
2497the
2498.Ic read
2499command will return an exit status as if terminated by
2500.Dv SIGALRM
2501without assigning any values.
2502The
2503.Ar timeout
2504value may optionally be followed by one of
2505.Ql s ,
2506.Ql m
2507or
2508.Ql h
2509to explicitly specify seconds, minutes or hours.
2510If none is supplied,
2511.Ql s
2512is assumed.
2513.Pp
2514The
2515.Fl e
2516option exists only for backward compatibility with older scripts.
2517.Pp
2518The exit status is 0 on success, 1 on end of file,
2519between 2 and 128 if an error occurs
2520and greater than 128 if a trapped signal interrupts
2521.Ic read .
2522.It Ic readonly Oo Fl p Oc Op Ar name ...
2523Each specified
2524.Ar name
2525is marked as read only,
2526so that it cannot be subsequently modified or unset.
2527The shell allows the value of a variable to be set
2528at the same time as it is marked read only
2529by using the following form:
2530.Pp
2531.D1 Ic readonly Ar name Ns = Ns Ar value
2532.Pp
2533With no arguments the
2534.Ic readonly
2535command lists the names of all read only variables.
2536If the
2537.Fl p
2538option is specified, the read-only variables are printed as
2539.Dq Ic readonly Ar name Ns = Ns Ar value
2540lines, suitable for re-input to the shell.
2541.It Ic return Op Ar exitstatus
2542See the
2543.Sx Functions
2544subsection.
2545.It Ic set Oo Fl /+abCEefIimnpTuVvx Oc Oo Fl /+o Ar longname
2546.Oc Op Fl - Ar arg ...
2547The
2548.Ic set
2549command performs three different functions:
2550.Bl -item
2551.It
2552With no arguments, it lists the values of all shell variables.
2553.It
2554If options are given,
2555either in short form or using the long
2556.Dq Fl /+o Ar longname
2557form,
2558it sets or clears the specified options as described in the section called
2559.Sx Argument List Processing .
2560.It
2561If the
2562.Dq Fl -
2563option is specified,
2564.Ic set
2565will replace the shell's positional parameters with the subsequent
2566arguments.
2567If no arguments follow the
2568.Dq Fl -
2569option,
2570all the positional parameters will be cleared,
2571which is equivalent to executing the command
2572.Dq Li "shift $#" .
2573The
2574.Dq Fl -
2575flag may be omitted when specifying arguments to be used
2576as positional replacement parameters.
2577This is not recommended,
2578because the first argument may begin with a dash
2579.Pq Ql -
2580or a plus
2581.Pq Ql + ,
2582which the
2583.Ic set
2584command will interpret as a request to enable or disable options.
2585.El
2586.It Ic setvar Ar variable value
2587Assigns the specified
2588.Ar value
2589to the specified
2590.Ar variable .
2591The
2592.Ic setvar
2593command is intended to be used in functions that
2594assign values to variables whose names are passed as parameters.
2595In general it is better to write
2596.Dq Ar variable Ns = Ns Ar value
2597rather than using
2598.Ic setvar .
2599.It Ic shift Op Ar n
2600Shift the positional parameters
2601.Ar n
2602times, or once if
2603.Ar n
2604is not specified.
2605A shift sets the value of
2606.Li $1
2607to the value of
2608.Li $2 ,
2609the value of
2610.Li $2
2611to the value of
2612.Li $3 ,
2613and so on,
2614decreasing the value of
2615.Li $#
2616by one.
2617For portability, shifting if there are zero positional parameters
2618should be avoided, since the shell may abort.
2619.It Ic test
2620A built-in equivalent of
2621.Xr test 1 .
2622.It Ic times
2623Print the amount of time spent executing the shell process and its children.
2624The first output line shows the user and system times for the shell process
2625itself, the second one contains the user and system times for the
2626children.
2627.It Ic trap Oo Ar action Oc Ar signal ...
2628.It Ic trap Fl l
2629Cause the shell to parse and execute
2630.Ar action
2631when any specified
2632.Ar signal
2633is received.
2634The signals are specified by name or number.
2635In addition, the pseudo-signal
2636.Cm EXIT
2637may be used to specify an
2638.Ar action
2639that is performed when the shell terminates.
2640The
2641.Ar action
2642may be an empty string or a dash
2643.Pq Ql - ;
2644the former causes the specified signal to be ignored
2645and the latter causes the default action to be taken.
2646Omitting the
2647.Ar action
2648and using only signal numbers is another way to request the default action.
2649In a subshell or utility environment,
2650the shell resets trapped (but not ignored) signals to the default action.
2651The
2652.Ic trap
2653command has no effect on signals that were ignored on entry to the shell.
2654.Pp
2655Option
2656.Fl l
2657causes the
2658.Ic trap
2659command to display a list of valid signal names.
2660.It Ic true
2661A null command that returns a 0 (true) exit value.
2662.It Ic type Op Ar name ...
2663Interpret each
2664.Ar name
2665as a command and print the resolution of the command search.
2666Possible resolutions are:
2667shell keyword, alias, special shell builtin, shell builtin, command,
2668tracked alias
2669and not found.
2670For aliases the alias expansion is printed;
2671for commands and tracked aliases
2672the complete pathname of the command is printed.
2673.It Ic ulimit Oo Fl HSabcdfklmnopstuvw Oc Op Ar limit
2674Set or display resource limits (see
2675.Xr getrlimit 2 ) .
2676If
2677.Ar limit
2678is specified, the named resource will be set;
2679otherwise the current resource value will be displayed.
2680.Pp
2681If
2682.Fl H
2683is specified, the hard limits will be set or displayed.
2684While everybody is allowed to reduce a hard limit,
2685only the superuser can increase it.
2686The
2687.Fl S
2688option
2689specifies the soft limits instead.
2690When displaying limits,
2691only one of
2692.Fl S
2693or
2694.Fl H
2695can be given.
2696The default is to display the soft limits,
2697and to set both the hard and the soft limits.
2698.Pp
2699Option
2700.Fl a
2701causes the
2702.Ic ulimit
2703command to display all resources.
2704The parameter
2705.Ar limit
2706is not acceptable in this mode.
2707.Pp
2708The remaining options specify which resource value is to be
2709displayed or modified.
2710They are mutually exclusive.
2711.Bl -tag -width indent
2712.It Fl b Ar sbsize
2713The maximum size of socket buffer usage, in bytes.
2714.It Fl c Ar coredumpsize
2715The maximal size of core dump files, in 512-byte blocks.
2716Setting
2717.Ar coredumpsize
2718to 0 prevents core dump files from being created.
2719.It Fl d Ar datasize
2720The maximal size of the data segment of a process, in kilobytes.
2721.It Fl f Ar filesize
2722The maximal size of a file, in 512-byte blocks.
2723.It Fl k Ar kqueues
2724The maximal number of kqueues
2725(see
2726.Xr kqueue 2 )
2727for this user ID.
2728.It Fl l Ar lockedmem
2729The maximal size of memory that can be locked by a process, in
2730kilobytes.
2731.It Fl m Ar memoryuse
2732The maximal resident set size of a process, in kilobytes.
2733.It Fl n Ar nofiles
2734The maximal number of descriptors that could be opened by a process.
2735.It Fl o Ar umtxp
2736The maximal number of process-shared locks
2737(see
2738.Xr pthread 3 )
2739for this user ID.
2740.It Fl p Ar pseudoterminals
2741The maximal number of pseudo-terminals for this user ID.
2742.It Fl s Ar stacksize
2743The maximal size of the stack segment, in kilobytes.
2744.It Fl t Ar time
2745The maximal amount of CPU time to be used by each process, in seconds.
2746.It Fl u Ar userproc
2747The maximal number of simultaneous processes for this user ID.
2748.It Fl v Ar virtualmem
2749The maximal virtual size of a process, in kilobytes.
2750.It Fl w Ar swapuse
2751The maximum amount of swap space reserved or used for this user ID,
2752in kilobytes.
2753.El
2754.It Ic umask Oo Fl S Oc Op Ar mask
2755Set the file creation mask (see
2756.Xr umask 2 )
2757to the octal or symbolic (see
2758.Xr chmod 1 )
2759value specified by
2760.Ar mask .
2761If the argument is omitted, the current mask value is printed.
2762If the
2763.Fl S
2764option is specified, the output is symbolic, otherwise the output is octal.
2765.It Ic unalias Oo Fl a Oc Op Ar name ...
2766The specified alias names are removed.
2767If
2768.Fl a
2769is specified, all aliases are removed.
2770.It Ic unset Oo Fl fv Oc Ar name ...
2771The specified variables or functions are unset and unexported.
2772If the
2773.Fl v
2774option is specified or no options are given, the
2775.Ar name
2776arguments are treated as variable names.
2777If the
2778.Fl f
2779option is specified, the
2780.Ar name
2781arguments are treated as function names.
2782.It Ic wait Op Ar job ...
2783Wait for each specified
2784.Ar job
2785to complete and return the exit status of the last process in the
2786last specified
2787.Ar job .
2788If any
2789.Ar job
2790specified is unknown to the shell, it is treated as if it
2791were a known job that exited with exit status 127.
2792If no operands are given, wait for all jobs to complete
2793and return an exit status of zero.
2794.El
2795.Ss Command Line Editing
2796When
2797.Nm
2798is being used interactively from a terminal, the current command
2799and the command history
2800(see
2801.Ic fc
2802in
2803.Sx Built-in Commands )
2804can be edited using
2805.Nm vi Ns -mode
2806command line editing.
2807This mode uses commands similar
2808to a subset of those described in the
2809.Xr vi 1
2810man page.
2811The command
2812.Dq Li "set -o vi"
2813(or
2814.Dq Li "set -V" )
2815enables
2816.Nm vi Ns -mode
2817editing and places
2818.Nm
2819into
2820.Nm vi
2821insert mode.
2822With
2823.Nm vi Ns -mode
2824enabled,
2825.Nm
2826can be switched between insert mode and command mode by typing
2827.Aq ESC .
2828Hitting
2829.Aq return
2830while in command mode will pass the line to the shell.
2831.Pp
2832Similarly, the
2833.Dq Li "set -o emacs"
2834(or
2835.Dq Li "set -E" )
2836command can be used to enable a subset of
2837.Nm emacs Ns -style
2838command line editing features.
2839.Sh ENVIRONMENT
2840The following environment variables affect the execution of
2841.Nm :
2842.Bl -tag -width ".Ev LANGXXXXXX"
2843.It Ev ENV
2844Initialization file for interactive shells.
2845.It Ev LANG , Ev LC_*
2846Locale settings.
2847These are inherited by children of the shell,
2848and is used in a limited manner by the shell itself.
2849.It Ev OLDPWD
2850The previous current directory.
2851This is used and updated by
2852.Ic cd .
2853.It Ev PWD
2854An absolute pathname for the current directory,
2855possibly containing symbolic links.
2856This is used and updated by the shell.
2857.It Ev TERM
2858The default terminal setting for the shell.
2859This is inherited by children of the shell, and is used in the history
2860editing modes.
2861.El
2862.Pp
2863Additionally, environment variables are turned into shell variables
2864at startup,
2865which may affect the shell as described under
2866.Sx Special Variables .
2867.Sh FILES
2868.Bl -tag -width "/etc/suid_profileXX" -compact
2869.It Pa ~/.profile
2870User's login profile.
2871.It Pa /etc/profile
2872System login profile.
2873.It Pa /etc/shells
2874Shell database.
2875.It Pa /etc/suid_profile
2876Privileged shell profile.
2877.El
2878.Sh EXIT STATUS
2879If the
2880.Ar script
2881cannot be found, the exit status will be 127;
2882if it cannot be opened for another reason, the exit status will be 126.
2883Other errors that are detected by the shell, such as a syntax error, will
2884cause the shell to exit with a non-zero exit status.
2885If the shell is not an interactive shell, the execution of the shell
2886file will be aborted.
2887Otherwise the shell will return the exit status of the last command
2888executed, or if the
2889.Ic exit
2890builtin is used with a numeric argument, it
2891will return the argument.
2892.Sh SEE ALSO
2893.Xr builtin 1 ,
2894.Xr chsh 1 ,
2895.Xr echo 1 ,
2896.Xr ed 1 ,
2897.Xr emacs 1 Pq Pa ports/editors/emacs ,
2898.Xr kill 1 ,
2899.Xr printf 1 ,
2900.Xr pwd 1 ,
2901.Xr test 1 ,
2902.Xr vi 1 ,
2903.Xr execve 2 ,
2904.Xr getrlimit 2 ,
2905.Xr umask 2 ,
2906.Xr wctype 3 ,
2907.Xr editrc 5 ,
2908.Xr shells 5
2909.Sh HISTORY
2910A
2911.Nm
2912command, the Thompson shell, appeared in
2913.At v1 .
2914It was superseded in
2915.At v7
2916by the Bourne shell, which inherited the name
2917.Nm .
2918.Pp
2919This version of
2920.Nm
2921was rewritten in 1989 under the
2922.Bx
2923license after the Bourne shell from
2924.At V.4 .
2925.Sh AUTHORS
2926This version of
2927.Nm
2928was originally written by
2929.An Kenneth Almquist .
2930.Sh BUGS
2931The
2932.Nm
2933utility does not recognize multibyte characters other than UTF-8.
2934Splitting using
2935.Va IFS
2936does not recognize multibyte characters.
2937