Minor documentation suggestion: while/until

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Bash Version: 4.1
Patch Level: 5
Release Status: release

Description:
Documentation nit: "list" overloaded in while/until description.

Repeat-By:

Here's the bash(1) man page section for while/until:

while list; do list; done
 until list; do list; done
      The while command continuously executes the do list as long as the
last command in  list
      returns  an  exit  status of zero.  The until command is identical to
the while command,
      except that the test is negated; the do list is executed as long as
the last command  in
      list returns a non-zero exit status.  The exit status of the while and
until commands is
      the exit status of the last do list command executed, or zero if none
was executed.


Fix:

If you changed them to something like this:

while listA; do listB; done
 until listA; do listB; done
      The while command continuously executes listB as long as the last
command in listA
      returns  an  exit  status of zero.  The until command is identical to
the while command,
      except that the test is negated; listB is executed as long as the last
command in
      listA returns a non-zero exit status.  The exit status of the while
and until commands is
      the exit status of the last command executed in listB, or zero if none
was executed.

I think they'd be easier to read.

-- 
Jeffrey Haemer <jeffrey.haemer@gmail.com>
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