(sh-utils.info)Introduction

Introduction
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   First of all, this manual is incomplete.  The `stty' section, in
particular, needs substantial reorganization and additional explanatory
text before it will be up to the standard of other GNU manuals.
Explanatory text in general is lacking; the manual presently assumes you
pretty much know what to do, and just need to be reminded of how.  Thus,
if you are interested, please get involved in improving this manual.
The entire GNU community will benefit.

   Some of these programs are useful only when writing shell scripts;
utilities like these are, in fact, the "language" of shell scripts (to
a great extent).  Others are occasionally useful interactively.

   The GNU shell utilities are mostly compatible with the POSIX.2
standard.

   Please report bugs to `sh-utils-bugs@gnu.ai.mit.edu'.  Remember to
include the version number, machine architecture, input files, and any
other information needed to reproduce the bug: your input, what you
expected, what you got, and why it is wrong.  Diffs are welcome, but
please include a description of the problem as well, since this is
sometimes difficult to infer. Note: Bugs.

   This manual is based on the Unix man pages in the distribution, which
were originally written by David MacKenzie and updated by Jim Meyering.
Franc,ois Pinard did the initial conversion to Texinfo format.  Karl
Berry did the indexing, some reorganization, and editing of the results.
Richard Stallman contributed his usual invaluable insights to the
overall process.