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authorMark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org>2002-02-06 23:15:46 +0000
committerMark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org>2002-02-06 23:15:46 +0000
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[Bug 190] reorganise and sync descriptions
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-<sect2>
-<title>Contents</title>
+<sect2><title>Contents of bash-&bash-contversion;</title>
-<para>The Bash package contains the bash program</para>
+<sect3><title>Program Files</title>
+<para>bash, sh (link to bash) and bashbug</para></sect3>
-</sect2>
-
-<sect2><title>Description</title>
+<sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
+<sect4><title>bash</title>
<para>Bash is the Bourne-Again SHell, which is a widely used command
interpreter on Unix systems. Bash is a program that reads from standard
input, the keyboard. A user types something and the program will evaluate
-what he has typed and do something with it, like running a program.</para>
+what he has typed and do something with it, like running a
+program.</para></sect4>
+
+<sect4><title>bashbug</title>
+<para>bashbug is a shell script to help the user compose and mail bug
+reports concerning bash in a standard format.</para></sect4>
+
+<sect4><title>sh</title>
+<para>sh is a symlink to the bash program. When invoked as sh, bash
+tries to mimic the startup behavior of historical versions of sh as closely
+as possible, while conforming to the POSIX standard as
+well.</para></sect4>
+
+</sect3>
</sect2>