Re: [PATCH] Documentation update for recent GRUB script changes

[BVK Chaitanya]

Updated patch with break, shift and continue commands documentation
copied as it is from BASH man page and with other suggestions is
attached.


On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Colin Watson <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 04:18:14PM +0530, BVK Chaitanya wrote:
>>  The special variable name @samp{?} expands to the exit status of the most
>> -recently executed command.
>> +recently executed command.  When positional variable names are active, other
>> +special variable names @samp{@@}, @samp{*} and @samp{#} are defined and they
>> +expand to all positional parameters with necessary quoting, positional
>> +parameters without any quoting, and positional parameter count respectively.
>
> So does this have different magic quoting properties from bash, then?
> In bash, $@ and $* have specially-defined expansions when they occur
> within double quotes.  If GRUB script is different then I think it would
> be worth spelling out the differences.
>

No, their behavior is completely similar to BASH semantics.




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