The file is opened for reading and writing as with <>. However,
when the file is closed it is truncated to the its current location.
diff --git a/docs/ksh/features.html b/docs/ksh/features.html
index 8c3abe0dd..8527f9f6e 100644
--- a/docs/ksh/features.html
+++ b/docs/ksh/features.html
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ Almost the complete set of C language operators are available
with the same syntax and precedence.
Arithmetic expressions can be used to as an argument expansion
or as a separate command.
-In addition there is an arithmetic for command that works
+In addition, there is an arithmetic for command that works
like the for statement in C.
diff --git a/src/cmd/INIT/ratz.c b/src/cmd/INIT/ratz.c
index 944a92f6e..0de42fc9c 100644
--- a/src/cmd/INIT/ratz.c
+++ b/src/cmd/INIT/ratz.c
@@ -1761,7 +1761,7 @@ unsigned short FAR *work;
This routine assumes, but does not check, that all of the entries in
lens[] are in the range 0..MAXBITS. The caller must assure this.
- 1..MAXBITS is interpreted as that code length. zero means that that
+ 1..MAXBITS is interpreted as that code length. zero means that
symbol does not occur in this code.
The codes are sorted by computing a count of codes for each length,
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/COMPATIBILITY b/src/cmd/ksh93/COMPATIBILITY
index 2c02c8fc9..e70aa2c83 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/COMPATIBILITY
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/COMPATIBILITY
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ omitted features that are completely upward compatible.
with ksh-93, ${foo-~} will cause tilde expansion if foo is
not set. You need to escape the ~ for the previous behavior.
-8. Some changes in the tokenizing rules where made that might
+8. Some changes in the tokenizing rules were made that might
cause some scripts with previously ambiguous use of quoting
to produce syntax errors.
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/OBSOLETE b/src/cmd/ksh93/OBSOLETE
index 793d23f59..006e5de4c 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/OBSOLETE
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/OBSOLETE
@@ -120,13 +120,13 @@ to re-execute the command.
.LI
The
.B \-t
-option to \fBalias\fR builtin is is obsolete. It
+option to \fBalias\fR builtin is obsolete. It
is used to set and list tracked aliases.
There is no replacement.
.LI
The shell command line option
.B \-t
-is obsolete. This option cause the shell to exit after reading
+is obsolete. This option causes the shell to exit after reading
and executing one command. The is no replacement (although ending
\&"command" with the exit builtin should have the same effect).
.LI
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/PROMO.mm b/src/cmd/ksh93/PROMO.mm
index def455224..f542dbdb8 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/PROMO.mm
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/PROMO.mm
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ field width, and justification to shell variables.
More pattern matching capabilities: KSH-93 allows you to specify
extended regular expressions for file and string matches.
.LI
-KSH-93 uses a hierarchal name space for variables.
+KSH-93 uses a hierarchical name space for variables.
Compound variables can be defined and variables can
be passed by reference. In addition, each variable
can have one or more disciplines associated with
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/RELEASE b/src/cmd/ksh93/RELEASE
index 2faf28a49..cf91ff583 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/RELEASE
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/RELEASE
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
the compile test.
12-05-25 A command substitution containing a here-document that itself contains
a here-document no longer hangs.
-12-05-24 When the redirection operatory >; is directed to a symlink, it now
+12-05-24 When the redirection operator >; is directed to a symlink, it now
overwrites the file named by the link rather than the link.
12-05-21 +Added printf formats %(type)q where type can be html, url, pattern,
ere, or csv.
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
string when i was a valid subscript and j was <=0 rather than
generating nothing has been fixed.
12-04-17 A bug in which read -d delim from a terminal did not respond to
- interrupt and did not termrinate when the delimiter was entered
+ interrupt and did not terminate when the delimiter was entered
has been fixed.
12-04-17 A bug in which a directory in PATH containing a .paths file that
contains a line with FPATH=dir, where dir does not exist could
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@
are associated with the directory in PATH containing the .paths file.
12-04-09 Increased I/O buffer sizes for better performance.
12-04-09 A bug in which the leading 0 was stripped from $x, when $x contained
- a heximadecimal constant inside an arithmetic expression inside
+ a hexadecimal constant inside an arithmetic expression inside
a for or while loop.
12-04-06 Modified namespaces to hand variables FPATH, PATH, and OPTIND that
are defined in name spaces appropriately. This also fixed OPTIND
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@
12-02-29 --- Release ksh93u+ ---
12-02-29 A bug in which ~user expanded first in a subshell prevented it
from expanding later in a program has been fixed.
-12-02-29 A bug which could lead to a core dump when more that four shared
+12-02-29 A bug which could lead to a core dump when more than four shared
libraries were added with the builtin command has been fixed.
12-02-29 Fixed a few bugs which caused SIGCHLD to be blocked preventing
background jobs from being reaped until a foreground job was run.
@@ -251,17 +251,17 @@
array elements has been fixed.
12-02-02 A bug in the ulimit option table was fixed.
12-01-26 A bug in which a set command that did not change monitor could
- effect the behavior of the monitor when monitor mode is on is fixed.
+ affect the behavior of the monitor when monitor mode is on is fixed.
12-01-21 +You can now test whether the shell implements a math function using
typeset -f .sh.math.name, where name is the name of the function.
12-01-21 A bug in which typeset -L and typeset -R did not handle multibyte
characters correctly has been fixed.
12-01-20 A bug that could cause the shell to hang waiting for an incorrect
job pid has been fixed.
-12-01-19 A memory leak which occurred for a nested command subtiution has been
+12-01-19 A memory leak which occurred for a nested command substitution has been
fixed.
12-01-17 A bug in which typeset -u PS1 could enable the uppercase attribute
- for some other variables, for exampe, HISTFILE has been fixed.
+ for some other variables, for example, HISTFILE has been fixed.
12-01-16 A bug in which .sh.match was not correct after a substring match when
the replacement string contained a substring match has been fixed.
12-01-12 +Files that are sourced from profile files are now read and executed
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@
been fixed.
11-12-07 I fixed a bug in which a variable expansion in a large here-document
could be expanded to a null string.
-11-12-06 An optimization to read was added in the case the the read command
+11-12-06 An optimization to read was added in the case the read command
was redirected from a file.
11-12-06 Changes were made to make the line limit for read unlimited by
default.
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@
recursion.
11-10-10 +Added alternate flag to printf %H for encoding of URI's.
11-10-10 A bug which could lead to a core dump when the shell was invoked
- with more than twenty five open files has been fixed.
+ with more than twenty-five open files has been fixed.
11-10-06 A bug in the scoping of name references in functions called by other
functions has been fixed.
11-10-05 A bug in which wait on a pid may return the exit status of an
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@
11-09-21 Added letoctal option that enables the let command to recognize
octal constants starting with 0.
11-09-20 A bug in which ${var.} could cause a core dump has been fixed.
-11-09-20 A bug with SHOPT_EDPREDICT when neither vi or emacs was enabled for
+11-09-20 A bug with SHOPT_EDPREDICT when neither vi nor emacs was enabled for
lines beginning with # when in a multibyte locale has been fixed.
11-09-20 A bug in emacs edit mode with SHOPT_EDPREDICT that would cause
history searches matching comments lines to generate predictions
@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@
an array has been fixed.
10-11-23 If a type definition is made without a compound variable assignment it
produces an error message and no longer shows up as a defined type.
-10-11-22 The handling of \ inside [...] for for shell and ~(E) patterns has
+10-11-22 The handling of \ inside [...] for shell and ~(E) patterns has
been fixed.
10-11-22 A patch was made to pfsh to handle an error case.
10-11-22 +Modified types defined in namespace so that they do not clash with
@@ -733,7 +733,7 @@
the variable had an attribute but did not have a value.
10-06-18 Modified trap handling so that if the same signal is received when
executing the handler, it is deferred until the handler completes.
-10-06-16 Fixed a bug in which ulimit -v was setting the the cpu limit
+10-06-16 Fixed a bug in which ulimit -v was setting the cpu limit
on Linux.
10-06-14 +The command 'typeset -T' now generates the list of type definitions
in a format that can be used as input to the shell.
@@ -1045,7 +1045,7 @@
09-06-19 Two bugs related to read -b for array variables has been fixed.
09-06-19 A bug with typeset for compound variables containing arrays of
compound variables has been fixed.
-09-06-18 A bug in appending a compound variable to a an indexed array of
+09-06-18 A bug in appending a compound variable to an indexed array of
compound variables has been fixed.
09-06-18 A bug which occurs when appending a compound variable to an indexed
array element has been fixed.
@@ -1088,7 +1088,7 @@
09-04-07 The emacs edit command M-_ and M_. and the vi command _ was fixed
to handle the case there there is no history file.
09-04-05 A bug in handling new-lines with read -n has been fixed.
-09-04-05 The ENV variable defaults the the file named by $HOME/.kshrc rather
+09-04-05 The ENV variable defaults to the file named by $HOME/.kshrc rather
then to the string $HOME/.kshrc.
09-03-31 A bug in which a nested command substitution with redirections could
leave a file descriptor open has been fixed.
@@ -1336,7 +1336,7 @@
08-06-23 _KSH_VERSION added as a name reference to .sh.version.
08-06-20 type now outputs 'special builtin' for special builtins.
08-06-19 A couple of bugs in multi-dimensional arrays have been fixed.
-08-06-19 A bug in which a syntax error in a dot script could generated
+08-06-19 A bug in which a syntax error in a dot script could generate
a syntax error in the next subsequent command has been fixed.
08-06-17 Reduced the maximum function call depth to 2048 to avoid exceptions
on some architectures.
@@ -1344,7 +1344,7 @@
specified variable was not set has been fixed.
08-06-16 +When typeset -p is followed by variable names, it now displays
the attributes names and values for the specific names.
-08-06-14 A bug that could effect the drawing of the screen from multiline
+08-06-14 A bug that could affect the drawing of the screen from multiline
emacs or gmacs mode when walking up the history file has been fixed.
08-06-13 A bug in which a compound variable defined in a subshell could
have side effects into the parent shell has been fixed.
@@ -1477,7 +1477,7 @@
files, generates the output in a temporary file and writes the
specified file only of the command has completed successfully.
08-02-15 A bug in ${var/pattern/string} for patterns of the form ?(*) and +(*)
- has bee fixed.
+ has been fixed.
08-02-07 A bug in which test \( ! -e \) produced an error has been fixed.
08-02-14 +The typeset -a option can now optionally be followed by the name
of an enumeration type which allows subscripts to be enumerations.
@@ -1525,7 +1525,7 @@
08-04-11 A bug which caused $(exec > /dev/null) to go into an infinite loop
has been fixed.
08-03-27 A bug in which typeset -LZ was being treated as -RZ has been fixed.
-08-03-06 A bug with ksh -P on systems that support the the profile shell,
+08-03-06 A bug with ksh -P on systems that support the profile shell,
in which it would exit after running a non-builtin has been fixed.
08-01-31 A bug in which command substitution inside ((...)) could cause
syntax errors or lead to core dumps has been fixed.
@@ -1568,9 +1568,9 @@
07-11-15 A bug in which "hash -- name" treated "--" as an invalid name operand
has been fixed.
07-11-15 typeset now handles "-t -- [-r] [--]" for s5r4 hash(1) compatibility.
-07-11-15 A bug in which the umask builtin mis-handled symbolic mode operands
+07-11-15 A bug in which the umask builtin mishandled symbolic mode operands
has been fixed.
-07-11-15 Bugs in which shell arithmetic and the printf builtin mis-handled the
+07-11-15 Bugs in which shell arithmetic and the printf builtin mishandled the
signs of { -NaN -Inf -0.0 } have been fixed.
07-11-15 +The full { SIGRTMIN SIGRTMIN+1 ... SIGRTMAX-1 SIGRTMAX } range
of signals, determined at runtime, are now supported.
@@ -1598,7 +1598,7 @@
07-09-20 A bug in which a nameref to a compound variable that was local
to the calling function would not expand correctly when displaying
is value has been fixed.
-07-09-19 A bug which cause cause a core dump if .sh.edchar returned
+07-09-19 A bug which could cause a core dump if .sh.edchar returned
80 characters or more from a keyboard trap has been fixed.
07-09-14 A bug in which could cause a core dump when more than 8 file
descriptors were in use has been fixed.
@@ -1618,7 +1618,7 @@
has been fixed.
07-08-08 A bug in which a trap ignored in a subshell caused it to be
ignored by the parent has been fixed.
-07-08-07 A bug in which the set command would generated erroneous output
+07-08-07 A bug in which the set command would generate erroneous output
for a variable with the -RZ attribute if the variable name had been
passed to a function has been fixed.
07-08-02 A bug in which read x[1] could core dump has been fixed.
@@ -1693,7 +1693,7 @@
06-11-20 A bug in which "${foo[@]:1}}" expands a null argument (instead of
no argument), when foo[0] is not empty has been fixed.
06-11-16 The discipline functions have been modified to allow each subscript
- to act independently. Currently the discipline function will not
+ to act independently. Currently, the discipline function will not
be called when called from a discipline function of the same variable.
06-11-14 A bug which could cause a core dump if a file descriptor for
an internal file was closed from with a subshell has been fixed.
@@ -1955,7 +1955,7 @@
the shared library named by libname will first be searched for a
built-in version of the command.
04-09-03 <<< here documents now handle quotes in the word token correctly.
-04-08-08 +The maximum size for read -n and and read -N was increased from
+04-08-08 +The maximum size for read -n and read -N was increased from
4095 to 32M.
04-08-04 +printf %q was modified so that if an no operand was supplied, no
no output would be generated rather than a quoted empty string.
@@ -2122,7 +2122,7 @@
would go to the standard output of the invoking command when
uname was invoked with a non-standard option has been fixed.
03-05-19 A job control bug which would cause the shell to exit because
- it hadn't take back the terminal has been fixed. The bug
+ it hadn't taken back the terminal has been fixed. The bug
could occur when running a function that contained a pipeline
whose last element was a function.
03-05-19 A job control timing bug introduced in ksh93o on some systems
@@ -2380,7 +2380,7 @@
01-09-25 Some spelling errors in the documentation were corrected.
01-09-24 +The /dev/tcp/host/port and /dev/udp/host/port now allow
the ports to be specified by service name.
-01-09-24 +The change staring with ksh93g in which the the appropriate
+01-09-24 +The change staring with ksh93g in which the appropriate
library path variable is prepended with a corresponding library
directory has been modified. With the new method, only the
library path defined in the file named .paths in the directory
@@ -2437,7 +2437,7 @@
long integers to floating point variables has been fixed.
01-06-18 A bug in the handling of unsigned integers (typeset -ui) has
been fixed.
-01-06-04 The evaluation of the PS1 prompt no longer effects the value
+01-06-04 The evaluation of the PS1 prompt no longer affects the value
of the $? variable.
01-06-01 A small memory leak from subshells has been fixed.
01-05-22 A bug in which attributes for variables that did not have
@@ -2505,13 +2505,13 @@
command and copies the remainder so that it can be used
for standard input.
01-04-30 +The shcomp command was modified so that it can work in an
- EBCIDIC environment and that binary scripts are portable
+ EBCDIC environment and that binary scripts are portable
across environments.
01-04-30 A bug in the handling of a trailing : in PATH has been fixed.
01-04-30 A bug in which the builtin version of a command would get invoked
even though the full pathname for the command was specified
has been fixed.
-01-04-30 A bug in which read would loose the last character when
+01-04-30 A bug in which read would lose the last character when
reading the last line of a file that did not contain a new-line
character has been fixed.
01-04-23 A bug on some systems in which in vi mode the end of file
@@ -2711,7 +2711,7 @@
trap is not triggered while executing trap commands
to avoid recursive trap calls.
99-03-31 A bug in which a local variable in a function declared readonly
- would generated an error when the function went out of
+ would generate an error when the function went out of
scope has been fixed.
99-03-31 A bug in which \ entered from the keyboard
with the KEYBD trap enabled has been fixed.
@@ -2754,7 +2754,7 @@
the variable it references was the subject of a compound
assignment has been fixed.
98-04-30 A bug which in which assignment to array variables in
- a subshell could effect the parent shell has been
+ a subshell could affect the parent shell has been
fixed.
98-04-30 read name?prompt was putting a 0 byte at the end of the
prompt on standard error.
@@ -2861,7 +2861,7 @@
produce unnormalized results has been fixed.
96-07-31 A bug which causes some arithmetic expressions to be
incorrectly evaluated as integer expressions rather
- that floating point has been fixed.
+ than floating point has been fixed.
96-07-31 Functions defined inside a subshell no longer remain
defined when the subshell completes.
96-07-31 The error message from sh -c ';echo foo' has been
@@ -3043,7 +3043,7 @@
the job list as required by the POSIX standard.
94-12-31 The value of OPTARG when an option that required
an argument but didn't have one was incorrect in the
- case the the option string began with a :.
+ case the option string began with a :.
94-12-31 A bug which caused the terminal to get into a bad
state with some KEYBD traps in vi-mode has been fixed.
94-12-31 A bug which caused an invalid trap to cause a script
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/RELEASE88 b/src/cmd/ksh93/RELEASE88
index d2e8e88c6..3196aad43 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/RELEASE88
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/RELEASE88
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ of ksh.
6. ${@:expr1:expr2} expands to at most expr2 positional parameters
starting at expr1.
7. ${!name} expands to the name of the variable named by name.
- It will expand to name unless name is reference variable.
+ It will expand to name unless name is a reference variable.
8. ${!name[sub]} expands to the name of the subscript of the
given variable. If sub is @ or * the list of subscripts
is generated.
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ of ksh.
13. ${name/%pattern/string} Same as above but the pattern
to be replaced must match at the end.
14. ${name//pattern/string} expands to the value of name with
- the each occurrence of pattern replaced by string.
+ each occurrence of pattern replaced by string.
With aggregates (@ or *) this operation is applied to each.
d. The name space for variables has been extended. The character '.'
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ of ksh.
within a name. However, to create a name of the form, foo.bar,
the variable foo must exist. The namespace starting with .sh
is reserved for shell implementation variables. Exported
- variable cannot contain a '.'.
+ variables cannot contain a '.'.
e. Compound assignments. The assignment syntax, varname=value,
has been extended to allow assignments of the form
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ of ksh.
h. On systems that support dynamic loading with dlopen(), it is
now possible to add built-in commands at runtime with the
- a builtin command named builtin.
+ builtin command named 'builtin'.
i. The following builtins have been added:
1. command name [ ... ]
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ of ksh.
that the string needs translation but is otherwise ignored.
This means that if a message catalog of all $"..." strings
is generated, then a program such as print $"hello world"
- could display "bonjour monde" in the french locale.
+ could display "bonjour monde" in the French locale.
q. Backreferences have been added to pattern matching. The sequence
\d, where d is a digit from 1-9, matches the same string as
the d-th previous parenthesis group. Backreferences
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ of ksh.
characters are quoted in a manner that then can be re-input.
4. The trace output puts quotes around the output so that it
can be reused as input.
- 5. The output for trap is in a format that can be reinput the
+ 5. The output for trap is in a format that can be reinput to
the shell to restore the traps.
6. kill -l lists the signal names without numbers as
required by the POSIX standard.
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ of ksh.
the FEATURE mechanism of nmake. Other options are set
in the OPTIONS file.
- c. The are several new compile time options. See the README
+ c. There are several new compile time options. See the README
file for details. Some of the old ones have been removed.
d. The install script is a Mamfile that is generated by
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/RELEASE93 b/src/cmd/ksh93/RELEASE93
index 2e282012e..8005882f8 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/RELEASE93
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/RELEASE93
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ of ksh.
the job list as required by the POSIX standard.
l. The value of OPTARG when an option that required
an argument but didn't have one was incorrect in the
- case the the option string began with a :.
+ case the option string began with a :.
m. A bug which caused the terminal to get into a bad
state with some KEYBD traps in vi-mode has been fixed.
n. A bug which caused an invalid trap to cause a script
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/TYPES b/src/cmd/ksh93/TYPES
index baa39351e..5b00a686b 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/TYPES
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/TYPES
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ typeset -T option to the shell. The method for defining types via
a shared library is not described here. However, the source file
bltins/enum.c is an example of a builtin that creates enumeration types.
-By convention, typenames begin with a capitol letter and end in _t.
+By convention, typenames begin with a capital letter and end in _t.
To define a type, use
typeset -T Type_t=(
definition
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ When a type is defined, a declaration built-in command by this name
is added to ksh. As with other shell builtins, you can get the man page
for this newly added command by invoking Pt_t --man. The information from
the -h options will be embedded in this man page. Any functions that
-use getopts to process arguments will be cross referenced on the generated
+use getopts to process arguments will be cross-referenced on the generated
man page.
Since Pt_t is now a declaration command it can be used in the definition
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/hist.c b/src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/hist.c
index 46ae07758..66a0336e2 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/hist.c
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/hist.c
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ int b_hist(int argc,char *argv[], Shbltin_t *context)
errormsg(SH_DICT,ERROR_exit(1),e_badrange,range[0],range[1]);
if(edit && *edit=='-' && range[0]!=range[1])
errormsg(SH_DICT,ERROR_exit(1),e_eneedsarg);
- /* now list commands from range[rflag] to range[1-rflag] */
+ /* now list commands from range[flag] to range[1-flag] */
incr = 1;
flag = rflag>0;
if(range[1-flag] < range[flag])
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/builtins.mm b/src/cmd/ksh93/builtins.mm
index 48231f1d6..0e4bae45d 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/builtins.mm
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/builtins.mm
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ to terminate your command.
The return value will become the exit status of the command.
The \f5open\fP built-in, installed in \f5lib/ksh\fP in the AST Toolkit, uses this method.
The \f5Shbltin_t\fP structure contains a field named \f5shp\fP which is
-a pointer the the shell data that is needed for \f5shell\fP library callbacks.
+a pointer to the shell data that is needed for \f5shell\fP library callbacks.
It also contains the fields, \f5shrun\fP, \f5shtrap\fP, \f5shexit\fP,
and \f5shbltin\fP
that are function pointers to the \f5shell\fP library functions \f5sh_run\fP, \f5sh_trap\fP
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ The variable \f5opt_info.num\fP will contain this
value after the given argument is encountered.
.LI \f5?\fP
Used after a \f5:\fP or \f5#\fP (and after the optional \f5?\fP)
-to indicate the the
+to indicate the
preceding option argument is not required.
.LI \f5[\fP...\f5]\fP
After a \f5:\fP or \f5#\fP, the characters contained
@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ name space.
The \fBshell\fP library is used to access other shell services.
.H 2 "The nval library"
A great deal of power is derived from the ability to use
-portions of the hierarchal variable namespace provided by \f5ksh-93\fP
+portions of the hierarchical variable namespace provided by \f5ksh-93\fP
and turn these names into active objects.
.P
The \fBnval\fP library is used to interface with shell
@@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ using this handle so that the space can be freed once
the value is unset.
The two most frequent operations are to get the value of
the variable, and to assign value to the variable.
-The \f5nv_getval()\fP returns a pointer the the
+The \f5nv_getval()\fP function returns a pointer to the
value of the variable.
In some cases the pointer returned is to a region that
will be overwritten by the next \f5nv_getval()\fP call
@@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ The \f5getval()\fP
function is called by \f5nv_getval()\fP
value and must return a string.
The \f5getnum()\fP
-function is called by by the arithmetic evaluator
+function is called by the arithmetic evaluator
and must return double.
If omitted, then it will call \f5nv_getval()\fP and
convert the result to a number.
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/data/keywords.c b/src/cmd/ksh93/data/keywords.c
index fed2cf018..758d0a119 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/data/keywords.c
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/data/keywords.c
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
/*
* table of reserved words in shell language
- * This list must be in in ascii sorted order
+ * This list must be in ASCII sorted order
*/
const Shtable_t shtab_reserved[] =
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/data/options.c b/src/cmd/ksh93/data/options.c
index f1e3019d2..dae9a7e3c 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/data/options.c
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/data/options.c
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
/*
* This is the list of invocation and set options
- * This list must be in in ascii sorted order
+ * This list must be in ASCII sorted order
*/
const Shtable_t shtab_options[] =
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/edit/edit.c b/src/cmd/ksh93/edit/edit.c
index 895a96ba6..1b720650c 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/edit/edit.c
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/edit/edit.c
@@ -826,7 +826,7 @@ static void ed_nputchar(register Edit_t *ep, int n, int c)
* Do read, restart on interrupt unless SH_SIGSET or SH_SIGTRAP is set
* Use sfpkrd() to poll() or select() to wait for input if possible
* Unfortunately, systems that get interrupted from slow reads update
- * this access time for for the terminal (in violation of POSIX).
+ * this access time for the terminal (in violation of POSIX).
* The fixtime() macro, resets the time to the time at entry in
* this case. This is not necessary for systems that can handle
* sfpkrd() correctly (i,e., those that support poll() or select()
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/include/lexstates.h b/src/cmd/ksh93/include/lexstates.h
index 6370ae79e..03069e85e 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/include/lexstates.h
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/include/lexstates.h
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
#define S_ERR 20 /* invalid character in ${...} */
#define S_SPC1 21 /* special prefix characters after $ */
#define S_SPC2 22 /* special characters after $ */
-#define S_DIG 23 /* digit character after $*/
+#define S_DIG 23 /* digit character after $ */
#define S_ALP 24 /* alpahbetic character after $ */
#define S_LBRA 25 /* left brace after $ */
#define S_RBRA 26 /* right brace after $ */
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/nval.3 b/src/cmd/ksh93/nval.3
index bb058ca5c..baaf59099 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/nval.3
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/nval.3
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ with the cdt library and associate them with name-value pairs.
The \f5nv_dict()\fP function returns the dictionary associated with
the specified name-value pair, or if no dictionary was specified,
\f5NULL\fP is returned.
-The \f5nv_lastdict()\fP function returns a pointer the the
+The \f5nv_lastdict()\fP function returns a pointer to the
name-value pair that contains
the last dictionary searched on the previous \f5nv_open()\fP.
.PP
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ The \f5createf()\fP discipline function
must return the created name-value pair, otherwise the default action
will be taken.
If the name-value pair that is returned is the same as the
-one given, then the the behavior will be the same as if
+one given, then the behavior will be the same as if
an invalid name had been given to \f5nv_open()\fP.
The \f5nv_create()\fP function may be called within
the \f5createf()\fP discipline function
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ Otherwise, the bottom of the discipline stack is returned.
If \fIfp\fP is non-\f5NULL\fP and it is on the stack,
it is removed and \fIfp\fP is returned. If \fIfp\fP is non-\f5NULL\fP
and is not on the stack, \f5NULL\fP is returned.
-Otherwise, the the top discipline is popped
+Otherwise, the top discipline is popped
and returned.
.IP
\f5NV_CLONE\fP:
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/sh.1 b/src/cmd/ksh93/sh.1
index 040642d2f..28c1f81e3 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/sh.1
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/sh.1
@@ -5460,7 +5460,7 @@ in the history file.
If \f2count\fP is not specified,
it generates the list of matching commands or
file names as described above.
-Otherwise, the word under the the cursor is replaced by the
+Otherwise, the word under the cursor is replaced by the
\f2count\fP item from the most recently generated command or file list.
If the cursor is not on a word, it is inserted instead.
.TP 10
@@ -8483,7 +8483,7 @@ Morris I. Bolsky and David G. Korn,
.IR "The New KornShell Command and Programming Language" ,
Prentice Hall, 1995.
.PP
-.I "POSIX \- Part 2: Shell and Utilities,"
+.IR "POSIX \- Part 2: Shell and Utilities" ,
IEEE Std 1003.2-1992, ISO/IEC 9945-2, IEEE, 1993.
.SH CAVEATS
.PP
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/fault.c b/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/fault.c
index e50758c44..ac1c4faab 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/fault.c
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/fault.c
@@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ void sh_done(void *ptr, register int sig)
(*shp->userinit)(shp, -1);
if(t=shp->st.trapcom[0])
{
- shp->st.trapcom[0]=0; /*should free but not long */
+ shp->st.trapcom[0]=0; /* should free but not long */
sh_trap(t,0);
savxit = shp->exitval;
}
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/macro.c b/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/macro.c
index 9ab89b104..89ada195a 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/macro.c
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/macro.c
@@ -1072,7 +1072,7 @@ static char *nextname(Mac_t *mp,const char *prefix, int len)
}
/*
- * This routine handles $param, ${parm}, and ${param op word}
+ * This routine handles $param, ${param}, and ${param op word}
* The input stream is assumed to be a string
*/
static int varsub(Mac_t *mp)
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/name.c b/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/name.c
index db142e9a0..b3be067e7 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/name.c
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/name.c
@@ -1115,7 +1115,7 @@ Namval_t *nv_create(const char *name, Dt_t *root, int flags, Namfun_t *dp)
else if(n==0 && (c==0 || (c=='[' && !nv_isarray(np))))
#endif /* SHOPT_FIXEDARRAY */
{
- /* subscript must be 0*/
+ /* subscript must be 0 */
cp[-1] = 0;
n = sh_arith(shp,sp+1);
cp[-1] = ']';
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/subshell.c b/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/subshell.c
index fe91e1ee5..7c157aae1 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/subshell.c
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/subshell.c
@@ -787,7 +787,7 @@ Sfio_t *sh_subshell(Shell_t *shp,Shnode_t *t, volatile int flags, int comsub)
/* Detach this scope from the unified view. */
shp->track_tree = dtview(sp->strack,0);
/* Delete (free) all elements of the subshell hash table. To allow dtnext() to
- set the pointer to the next item, we have to delete one item beind the loop. */
+ set the pointer to the next item, we have to delete one item behind the loop. */
prev_np = 0;
np = (Namval_t*)dtfirst(sp->strack);
while(np)
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/shell.3 b/src/cmd/ksh93/shell.3
index 587ad2285..725259c2e 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/shell.3
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/shell.3
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ the following public members:
\f5char *cmdname;\fP
\f5Dt_t *var_tree;\fP
.fi
-The \f5sh_getscope()\fP function can be used to the the
+The \f5sh_getscope()\fP function can be used to get the
scope information associated with existing scope.
Scopes are numbered from \f50\fP for the global scope
up to the current scope level. The \fIwhence\fP
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/io.sh b/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/io.sh
index 26554c091..4951c0e2b 100755
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/io.sh
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/io.sh
@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ then set -o posix
[[ $(< aha2.txt) == ok2 ]] || err_exit '&> does not redirect stderr'
fi
-# In POSIX mode, file descriptors > 2 should remain open when invoking another proram
+# In POSIX mode, file descriptors > 2 should remain open when invoking another program
if [[ -o ?posix ]]
then (set -o posix; exec 7>ok.txt; "$SHELL" -c 'print ok >&7' 2>/dev/null)
[[ $( 2 not inherited in POSIX mode'
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/path.sh b/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/path.sh
index 7b066a282..2a455f1df 100755
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/path.sh
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/path.sh
@@ -106,12 +106,12 @@ FPATH=$PWD/dir2
PATH=$FPATH:$p
[[ ${ foobar;} == foobar2 ]] || err_exit 'foobar should output foobar2 with ${}'
[[ ${ dir2;} == dir2 ]] || err_exit 'should be dir2'
-[[ ${ dir1;} == dir1 ]] 2> /dev/null && err_exit 'should not be be dir1'
+[[ ${ dir1;} == dir1 ]] 2> /dev/null && err_exit 'should not be dir1'
FPATH=$PWD/dir1
PATH=$FPATH:$p
[[ ${ foobar;} == foobar1 ]] || err_exit 'foobar should output foobar1 with ${}'
[[ ${ dir1;} == dir1 ]] || err_exit 'should be dir1'
-[[ ${ dir2;} == dir2 ]] 2> /dev/null && err_exit 'should not be be dir2'
+[[ ${ dir2;} == dir2 ]] 2> /dev/null && err_exit 'should not be dir2'
FPATH=$PWD/dir2
PATH=$FPATH:$p
[[ ${ foobar;} == foobar2 ]] || err_exit 'foobar should output foobar2 with ${} again'
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/variables.sh b/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/variables.sh
index cdcb97366..531461315 100755
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/variables.sh
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/variables.sh
@@ -1189,7 +1189,7 @@ Hi, I'm still a function! On line 6, my \$LINENO is 6
end: main script \$LINENO == 10"
got=$(FPATH=$tmp "$SHELL" ./lineno_autoload 2>&1)
-[[ $got == "$exp" ]] || err_exit 'Regression in \$LINENO and/or error messages.' \
+[[ $got == "$exp" ]] || err_exit 'Regression in $LINENO and/or error messages.' \
$'Diff follows:\n'"$(diff -u <(print -r -- "$exp") <(print -r -- "$got") | sed $'s/^/\t| /')"
# ======
diff --git a/src/lib/libast/man/aso.3 b/src/lib/libast/man/aso.3
index f80ca2675..1b635efed 100644
--- a/src/lib/libast/man/aso.3
+++ b/src/lib/libast/man/aso.3
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ closes the current method (releasing its resources),
temporarily instantiates the default method
(either \f5ASO_INTRINSIC\fP if available or \f5AS_SIGNAL\fP otherwise),
and initializes \f5meth\fP and instantiates it as the new method.
-If \f5disc\fP is \f50\fP the the global discipline is not modified.
+If \f5disc\fP is \f50\fP then the global discipline is not modified.
If \f5meth\fP is \f50\fP then \f51\fP is returned if \f5asoinit()\fP has
already been called to initialize a method, otherwise \f50\fP is returned.
If \f5meth->lockf\fP is \f50\fP and \f5(meth->type & ASO_INTRINSIC) != 0\fP
diff --git a/src/lib/libast/misc/optget.c b/src/lib/libast/misc/optget.c
index 5b9c0fe03..5148947cb 100644
--- a/src/lib/libast/misc/optget.c
+++ b/src/lib/libast/misc/optget.c
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ static unsigned char map[UCHAR_MAX];
static Optstate_t state;
-#if 0 /* #if !_PACKAGE_astsa // this somehow corrupts "Or:" usage mesages, e.g. in 'typeset -\?' */
+#if 0 /* #if !_PACKAGE_astsa // this somehow corrupts "Or:" usage messages, e.g. in 'typeset -\?' */
#define ID ast.id
diff --git a/src/lib/libast/uwin/crypt.c b/src/lib/libast/uwin/crypt.c
index 5d9569e05..13be1536a 100644
--- a/src/lib/libast/uwin/crypt.c
+++ b/src/lib/libast/uwin/crypt.c
@@ -675,7 +675,7 @@ static int des_setkey(register const char *key) {
/*
* Encrypt (or decrypt if num_iter < 0) the 8 chars at "in" with abs(num_iter)
- * iterations of DES, using the the given 24-bit salt and the pre-computed key
+ * iterations of DES, using the given 24-bit salt and the pre-computed key
* schedule, and store the resulting 8 chars at "out" (in == out is permitted).
*
* NOTE: the performance of this routine is critically dependent on your
diff --git a/src/lib/libast/uwin/random.c b/src/lib/libast/uwin/random.c
index ecea9b975..88bb61973 100644
--- a/src/lib/libast/uwin/random.c
+++ b/src/lib/libast/uwin/random.c
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ extern long int random();
/* For each of the currently supported random number generators, we have a
- break value on the amount of state information (you need at least thi
+ break value on the amount of state information (you need at least the
bytes of state info to support this random number generator), a degree for
the polynomial (actually a trinomial) that the R.N.G. is based on, and
separation between the two lower order coefficients of the trinomial. */
diff --git a/src/lib/libcmd/cmp.c b/src/lib/libcmd/cmp.c
index 25461d4c2..9cae5488b 100644
--- a/src/lib/libcmd/cmp.c
+++ b/src/lib/libcmd/cmp.c
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ static const char usage[] =
"[d:differences?Print at most \adifferences\a differences using "
"\b--verbose\b output format. \b--differences=0\b is equivalent to "
"\b--silent\b.]#[differences]"
-"[i:ignore-initial|skip?Skip the the first \askip1\a bytes in \afile1\a "
+"[i:ignore-initial|skip?Skip the first \askip1\a bytes in \afile1\a "
"and the first \askip2\a bytes in \afile2\a. If \askip2\a is omitted "
"then \askip1\a is used.]:[skip1[::skip2]]:=0::0]"
"[l:verbose?Write the decimal byte number and the differing bytes (in "
diff --git a/src/lib/libcmd/getconf.c b/src/lib/libcmd/getconf.c
index 05d360ec2..b8dd3097b 100644
--- a/src/lib/libcmd/getconf.c
+++ b/src/lib/libcmd/getconf.c
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ static const char usage[] =
" directory if \apath\a is omitted. If \avalue\a is specified then"
" \bgetconf\b attempts to change the process local value to \avalue\a."
" \b-\b may be used in place of \apath\a when it is not relevant."
-" If \apath\a is \b=\b then the the \avalue\a is cached and used"
+" If \apath\a is \b=\b then the \avalue\a is cached and used"
" for subsequent tests in the calling and all child processes."
" Only \bwritable\b variables may be set; \breadonly\b variables"
" cannot be changed.]"