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| author |  David Adam (zanchey) <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> | 2013-05-12 15:56:01 +0800 |
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| committer |  ridiculousfish <corydoras@ridiculousfish.com> | 2013-05-13 01:48:20 -0700 |
| commit | 1287b9d82382bf22e16edda67eae755f07397f2e (patch) | |
| tree | 811814b029d65ac11a193e616ca4a71d216dbe0c /doc_src/begin.txt | |
| parent | 91aab03b90a6b583a3c0ecff5b015c6066d34f28 (diff) | |
Help cleanup
Large list of changes, including formatting and typos for most commands.
More substantive changes have been made to alias, bind, block, break,
builtin, case, cd, commandline, count, else, emit, fish_config, funced,
function, functions, history, math, mimedb, nextd, not, popd, prevd,
pushd, pwd, random, read, set, set_color, switch, test, trap, type,
ulimit, umask, and while.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc_src/begin.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc_src/begin.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc_src/begin.txt b/doc_src/begin.txt index f5f7f53e..fafe9849 100644 --- a/doc_src/begin.txt +++ b/doc_src/begin.txt @@ -5,15 +5,18 @@ \subsection begin-description Description -The \c begin builtin is used to create a new block of code. The block +\c begin is used to create a new block of code. + +The block is unconditionally executed. <code>begin; ...; end</tt> is equivalent -to <tt>if true; ...; end</tt>. The begin command is used to group any -number of commands into a block. The reason for doing so is usually -either to introduce a new variable scope, to redirect the input or +to <tt>if true; ...; end</tt>. + +\c begin is used to group a number of commands into a block. +This allows the introduction of a new variable scope, redirection of the input or output of a set of commands as a group, or to specify precedence when using the conditional commands like \c and. -The \c begin command does not change the current exit status. +\c begin does not change the current exit status. \subsection begin-example Example |