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    .\"
    .\"	Public Domain
    .\"
    .Dd $Mdocdate: November 26 2019 $
    .Dt KSH 1
    .Os
    .Sh NAME
    .Nm ksh ,
    .Nm rksh
    .Nd public domain Korn shell
    .Sh SYNOPSIS
    .Nm ksh
    .Bk -words
    .Op Fl +abCefhiklmnpruvXx
    .Op Fl +o Ar option
    .Op Fl c Ar string | Fl s | Ar file Op Ar argument ...
    .Ek
    .Sh DESCRIPTION
    .Nm
    is a command interpreter intended for both interactive and shell
    script use.
    Its command language is a superset of the
    .Xr sh 1
    shell language.
    .Pp
    The options are as follows:
    .Bl -tag -width Ds
    .It Fl c Ar string
    .Nm
    will execute the command(s) contained in
    .Ar string .
    .It Fl i
    Interactive shell.
    A shell is
    .Dq interactive
    if this
    option is used or if both standard input and standard error are attached
    to a
    .Xr tty 4 .
    An interactive shell has job control enabled, ignores the
    .Dv SIGINT ,
    .Dv SIGQUIT ,
    and
    .Dv SIGTERM
    signals, and prints prompts before reading input (see the
    .Ev PS1
    and
    .Ev PS2
    parameters).
    For non-interactive shells, the
    .Ic trackall
    option is on by default (see the
    .Ic set
    command below).
    .It Fl l
    Login shell.
    If the basename the shell is called with (i.e. argv[0])
    starts with
    .Ql -
    or if this option is used,
    the shell is assumed to be a login shell and the shell reads and executes
    the contents of
    .Pa /etc/profile
    and
    .Pa $HOME/.profile
    if they exist and are readable.
    .It Fl p
    Privileged shell.
    A shell is
    .Dq privileged
    if this option is used
    or if the real user ID or group ID does not match the
    effective user ID or group ID (see
    .Xr getuid 2
    and
    .Xr getgid 2 ) .
    A privileged shell does not process
    .Pa $HOME/.profile
    nor the
    .Ev ENV
    parameter (see below).
    Instead, the file
    .Pa /etc/suid_profile
    is processed.
    Clearing the privileged option causes the shell to set
    its effective user ID (group ID) to its real user ID (group ID).
    .It Fl r
    Restricted shell.
    A shell is
    .Dq restricted
    if this
    option is used;
    if the basename the shell was invoked with was
    .Dq rksh ;
    or if the
    .Ev SHELL
    parameter is set to
    .Dq rksh .
    The following restrictions come into effect after the shell processes any
    profile and
    .Ev ENV
    files:
    .Pp
    .Bl -bullet -compact
    .It
    The
    .Ic cd
    command is disabled.
    .It
    The
    .Ev SHELL ,
    .Ev ENV ,
    and
    .Ev PATH
    parameters cannot be changed.
    .It
    Command names can't be specified with absolute or relative paths.
    .It
    The
    .Fl p
    option of the built-in command
    .Ic command
    can't be used.
    .It
    Redirections that create files can't be used (i.e.\&
    .Sq Cm > ,
    .Sq Cm >| ,
    .Sq Cm >> ,
    .Sq Cm <> ) .
    .El
    .It Fl s
    The shell reads commands from standard input; all non-option arguments
    are positional parameters.
    .El
    .Pp
    In addition to the above, the options described in the
    .Ic set
    built-in command can also be used on the command line:
    both
    .Op Fl +abCefhkmnuvXx
    and
    .Op Fl +o Ar option
    can be used for single letter or long options, respectively.
    .Pp
    If neither the
    .Fl c
    nor the
    .Fl s
    option is specified, the first non-option argument specifies the name
    of a file the shell reads commands from.
    If there are no non-option
    arguments, the shell reads commands from the standard input.
    The name of the shell (i.e. the contents of $0)
    is determined as follows: if the
    .Fl c
    option is used and there is a non-option argument, it is used as the name;
    if commands are being read from a file, the file is used as the name;
    otherwise, the basename the shell was called with (i.e. argv[0]) is used.
    .Pp
    If the
    .Ev ENV
    parameter is set when an interactive shell starts (or,
    in the case of login shells,
    after any profiles are processed), its value is subjected to parameter,
    command, arithmetic, and tilde
    .Pq Sq ~
    substitution and the resulting file
    (if any) is read and executed.
    In order to have an interactive (as opposed to login) shell
    process a startup file,
    .Ev ENV
    may be set and exported (see below) in
    .Pa $HOME/.profile
    \- future interactive shell invocations will process any file pointed to by
    .Ev $ENV :
    .Pp
    .Dl export ENV=$HOME/.kshrc
    .Pp
    .Pa $HOME/.kshrc
    is then free to specify instructions for interactive shells.
    For example, the global configuration file may be sourced:
    .Bd -literal -offset indent
    \&. /etc/ksh.kshrc
    .Ed
    .Pp
    The above strategy may be employed to keep
    setup procedures for login shells in
    .Pa $HOME/.profile
    and setup procedures for interactive shells in
    .Pa $HOME/.kshrc .
    Of course, since login shells are also interactive,
    any commands placed in
    .Pa $HOME/.kshrc
    will be executed by login shells too.
    .Pp
    The exit status of the shell is 127 if the command file specified on the
    command line could not be opened, or non-zero if a fatal syntax error
    occurred during the execution of a script.
    In the absence of fatal errors,
    the exit status is that of the last command executed, or zero, if no
    command is executed.
    .Ss Command syntax
    The shell begins parsing its input by breaking it into
    .Em words .
    Words, which are sequences of characters, are delimited by unquoted whitespace
    characters (space, tab, and newline) or meta-characters
    .Po
    .Ql < ,
    .Ql > ,
    .Ql | ,
    .Ql \&; ,
    .Ql \&( ,
    .Ql \&) ,
    and
    .Ql &
    .Pc .
    Aside from delimiting words, spaces and tabs are ignored, while newlines
    usually delimit commands.
    The meta-characters are used in building the following
    .Em tokens :
    .Sq Cm < ,
    .Sq Cm <& ,
    .Sq Cm << ,
    .Sq Cm > ,
    .Sq Cm >& ,
    .Sq Cm >> ,
    etc. are used to specify redirections (see
    .Sx Input/output redirection
    below);
    .Ql |
    is used to create pipelines;
    .Ql |&
    is used to create co-processes (see
    .Sx Co-processes
    below);
    .Ql \&;
    is used to separate commands;
    .Ql &
    is used to create asynchronous pipelines;
    .Ql &&
    and
    .Ql ||
    are used to specify conditional execution;
    .Ql ;;
    is used in
    .Ic case
    statements;
    .Ql (( .. ))
    is used in arithmetic expressions;
    and lastly,
    .Ql \&( .. )\&
    is used to create subshells.
    .Pp
    Whitespace and meta-characters can be quoted individually using a backslash
    .Pq Sq \e ,
    or in groups using double
    .Pq Sq \&"
    or single
    .Pq Sq '
    quotes.
    The following characters are also treated specially by the
    shell and must be quoted if they are to represent themselves:
    .Ql \e ,
    .Ql \&" ,
    .Ql ' ,
    .Ql # ,
    .Ql $ ,
    .Ql ` ,
    .Ql ~ ,
    .Ql { ,
    .Ql } ,
    .Ql * ,
    .Ql \&? ,
    and
    .Ql \&[ .
    The first three of these are the above mentioned quoting characters (see
    .Sx Quoting
    below);
    .Ql # ,
    if used at the beginning of a word, introduces a comment \(em everything after
    the
    .Ql #
    up to the nearest newline is ignored;
    .Ql $
    is used to introduce parameter, command, and arithmetic substitutions (see
    .Sx Substitution
    below);
    .Ql `
    introduces an old-style command substitution (see
    .Sx Substitution
    below);
    .Ql ~
    begins a directory expansion (see
    .Sx Tilde expansion
    below);
    .Ql {
    and
    .Ql }
    delimit
    .Xr csh 1 Ns -style
    alternations (see
    .Sx Brace expansion
    below);
    and finally,
    .Ql * ,
    .Ql \&? ,
    and
    .Ql \&[
    are used in file name generation (see
    .Sx File name patterns
    below).
    .Pp
    As words and tokens are parsed, the shell builds commands, of which there
    are two basic types:
    .Em simple-commands ,
    typically programs that are executed, and
    .Em compound-commands ,
    such as
    .Ic for
    and
    .Ic if
    statements, grouping constructs, and function definitions.
    .Pp
    A simple-command consists of some combination of parameter assignments
    (see
    .Sx Parameters
    below),
    input/output redirections (see
    .Sx Input/output redirections
    below),
    and command words; the only restriction is that parameter assignments come
    before any command words.
    The command words, if any, define the command
    that is to be executed and its arguments.
    The command may be a shell built-in command, a function,
    or an external command
    (i.e. a separate executable file that is located using the
    .Ev PATH
    parameter; see
    .Sx Command execution
    below).
    .Pp
    All command constructs have an exit status.
    For external commands,
    this is related to the status returned by
    .Xr wait 2
    (if the command could not be found, the exit status is 127; if it could not
    be executed, the exit status is 126).
    The exit status of other command
    constructs (built-in commands, functions, compound-commands, pipelines, lists,
    etc.) are all well-defined and are described where the construct is
    described.
    The exit status of a command consisting only of parameter
    assignments is that of the last command substitution performed during the
    parameter assignment or 0 if there were no command substitutions.
    .Pp
    Commands can be chained together using the
    .Ql |
    token to form pipelines, in which the standard output of each command but the
    last is piped (see
    .Xr pipe 2 )
    to the standard input of the following command.
    The exit status of a pipeline is that of its last command.
    A pipeline may be prefixed by the
    .Ql \&!
    reserved word, which causes the exit status of the pipeline to be logically
    complemented: if the original status was 0, the complemented status will be 1;
    if the original status was not 0, the complemented status will be 0.
    .Pp
    .Em Lists
    of commands can be created by separating pipelines by any of the following
    tokens:
    .Ql && ,
    .Ql || ,
    .Ql & ,
    .Ql |& ,
    and
    .Ql \&; .
    The first two are for conditional execution:
    .Dq Ar cmd1 No && Ar cmd2
    executes
    .Ar cmd2
    only if the exit status of
    .Ar cmd1
    is zero;
    .Ql ||
    is the opposite \(em
    .Ar cmd2
    is executed only if the exit status of
    .Ar cmd1
    is non-zero.
    .Ql &&
    and
    .Ql ||
    have equal precedence which is higher than that of
    .Ql & ,
    .Ql |& ,
    and
    .Ql \&; ,
    which also have equal precedence.
    The
    .Ql &&
    and
    .Ql ||
    operators are
    .Qq left-associative .
    For example, both of these commands will print only
    .Qq bar :
    .Bd -literal -offset indent
    $ false && echo foo || echo bar
    $ true || echo foo && echo bar
    .Ed
    .Pp
    The
    .Ql &
    token causes the preceding command to be executed asynchronously; that is,
    the shell starts the command but does not wait for it to complete (the shell
    does keep track of the status of asynchronous commands; see
    .Sx Job control
    below).
    When an asynchronous command is started when job control is disabled
    (i.e. in most scripts), the command is started with signals
    .Dv SIGINT
    and
    .Dv SIGQUIT
    ignored and with input redirected from
    .Pa /dev/null
    (however, redirections specified in the asynchronous command have precedence).
    The
    .Ql |&
    operator starts a co-process which is a special kind of asynchronous process
    (see
    .Sx Co-processes
    below).
    A command must follow the
    .Ql &&
    and
    .Ql ||
    operators, while it need not follow
    .Ql & ,
    .Ql |& ,
    or
    .Ql \&; .
    The exit status of a list is that of the last command executed, with the
    exception of asynchronous lists, for which the exit status is 0.
    .Pp
    Compound commands are created using the following reserved words.
    These words
    are only recognized if they are unquoted and if they are used as the first
    word of a command (i.e. they can't be preceded by parameter assignments or
    redirections):
    .Bd -literal -offset indent
    case   esac       in       until   ((   }
    do     fi         name     while   ))
    done   for        select   !       [[
    elif   function   then     (       ]]
    else   if         time     )       {
    .Ed
    .Pp
    .Sy Note :
    Some shells (but not this one) execute control structure commands in a
    subshell when one or more of their file descriptors are redirected, so any
    environment changes inside them may fail.
    To be portable, the
    .Ic exec
    statement should be used instead to redirect file descriptors before the
    control structure.
    .Pp
    In the following compound command descriptions, command lists (denoted as
    .Em list )
    that are followed by reserved words must end with a semicolon, a newline, or
    a (syntactically correct) reserved word.
    For example, the following are all valid:
    .Bd -literal -offset indent
    $ { echo foo; echo bar; }
    $ { echo foo; echo bar<newline> }
    $ { { echo foo; echo bar; } }
    .Ed
    .Pp
    This is not valid:
    .Pp
    .Dl $ { echo foo; echo bar }
    .Bl -tag -width Ds
    .It Pq Ar list
    Execute
    .Ar list
    in a subshell.
    There is no implicit way to pass environment changes from a
    subshell back to its parent.
    .It { Ar list ; No }
    Compound construct;
    .Ar list
    is executed, but not in a subshell.
    Note that
    .Ql {
    and
    .Ql }
    are reserved words, not meta-characters.
    .It Xo Ic case Ar word Cm in
    .Oo Op \&(
    .Ar pattern
    .Op | Ar pattern
    .No ... )
    .Ar list No ;;\ \& Oc ... Cm esac
    .Xc
    The
    .Ic case
    statement attempts to match
    .Ar word
    against a specified
    .Ar pattern ;
    the
    .Ar list
    associated with the first successfully matched pattern is executed.
    Patterns used in
    .Ic case
    statements are the same as those used for file name patterns except that the
    restrictions regarding
    .Ql \&.
    and
    .Ql /
    are dropped.
    Note that any unquoted space before and after a pattern is
    stripped; any space within a pattern must be quoted.
    Both the word and the
    patterns are subject to parameter, command, and arithmetic substitution, as
    well as tilde substitution.
    For historical reasons, open and close braces may be used instead of
    .Cm in
    and
    .Cm esac
    e.g.\&
    .Ic case $foo { *) echo bar; } .
    The exit status of a
    .Ic case
    statement is that of the executed
    .Ar list ;
    if no
    .Ar list
    is executed, the exit status is zero.
    .It Xo Ic for Ar name
    .Op Cm in Op Ar word ... ;
    .Cm do Ar list ; Cm done
    .Xc
    For each
    .Ar word
    in the specified word list, the parameter
    .Ar name
    is set to the word and
    .Ar list
    is executed.
    If
    .Cm in
    is not used to specify a word list, the positional parameters
    ($1, $2, etc.)\&
    are used instead.
    For historical reasons, open and close braces may be used instead of
    .Cm do
    and
    .Cm done
    e.g.\&
    .Ic for i; { echo $i; } .
    The exit status of a
    .Ic for
    statement is the last exit status of
    .Ar list .
    If there are no items,
    .Ar list
    is not executed and the exit status is zero.
    .It Xo Ic if Ar list ;
    .Cm then Ar list ;
    .Oo Cm elif Ar list ;
    .Cm then Ar list ; Oc ...
    .Oo Cm else Ar list ; Oc
    .Cm fi
    .Xc
    If the exit status of the first
    .Ar list
    is zero, the second
    .Ar list
    is executed; otherwise, the
    .Ar list
    following the
    .Cm elif ,
    if any, is executed with similar consequences.
    If all the lists following the
    .Ic if
    and
    .Cm elif Ns s
    fail (i.e. exit with non-zero status), the
    .Ar list
    following the
    .Cm else
    is executed.
    The exit status of an
    .Ic if
    statement is that of non-conditional
    .Ar list
    that is executed; if no non-conditional
    .Ar list
    is executed, the exit status is zero.
    .It Xo Ic select Ar name
    .Oo Cm in Ar word No ... Oc ;
    .Cm do Ar list ; Cm done
    .Xc
    The
    .Ic select
    statement provides an automatic method of presenting the user with a menu and
    selecting from it.
    An enumerated list of the specified
    .Ar word Ns (s)
    is printed on standard error, followed by a prompt
    .Po
    .Ev PS3 :
    normally
    .Sq #?\ \&
    .Pc .
    A number corresponding to one of the enumerated words is then read from
    standard input,
    .Ar name
    is set to the selected word (or unset if the selection is not valid),
    .Ev REPLY
    is set to what was read (leading/trailing space is stripped), and
    .Ar list
    is executed.
    If a blank line (i.e. zero or more
    .Ev IFS
    characters) is entered, the menu is reprinted without executing
    .Ar list .
    .Pp
    When
    .Ar list
    completes, the enumerated list is printed if
    .Ev REPLY
    is
    .Dv NULL ,
    the prompt is printed, and so on.
    This process continues until an end-of-file
    is read, an interrupt is received, or a
    .Ic break
    statement is executed inside the loop.
    If
    .Dq in word ...
    is omitted, the positional parameters are used
    (i.e. $1, $2, etc.).
    For historical reasons, open and close braces may be used instead of
    .Cm do
    and
    .Cm done
    e.g.\&
    .Ic select i; { echo $i; } .
    The exit status of a
    .Ic select
    statement is zero if a
    .Ic break
    statement is used to exit the loop, non-zero otherwise.
    .It Xo Ic until Ar list ;
    .Cm do Ar list ;
    .Cm done
    .Xc
    This works like
    .Ic while ,
    except that the body is executed only while the exit status of the first
    .Ar list
    is non-zero.
    .It Xo Ic while Ar list ;
    .Cm do Ar list ;
    .Cm done
    .Xc
    A
    .Ic while
    is a pre-checked loop.
    Its body is executed as often as the exit status of the first
    .Ar list
    is zero.
    The exit status of a
    .Ic while
    statement is the last exit status of the
    .Ar list
    in the body of the loop; if the body is not executed, the exit status is zero.
    .It Xo Ic function Ar name
    .No { Ar list ; No }
    .Xc
    Defines the function
    .Ar name
    (see
    .Sx Functions
    below).
    Note that redirections specified after a function definition are
    performed whenever the function is executed, not when the function definition
    is executed.
    .It Ar name Ns () Ar command
    Mostly the same as
    .Ic function
    (see
    .Sx Functions
    below).
    .It Xo Ic time Op Fl p
    .Op Ar pipeline
    .Xc
    The
    .Ic time
    reserved word is described in the
    .Sx Command execution
    section.
    .It Ic (( Ar expression Cm ))
    The arithmetic expression
    .Ar expression
    is evaluated; equivalent to
    .Ic let Ar expression
    (see
    .Sx Arithmetic expressions
    and the
    .Ic let
    command, below).
    .It Ic [[ Ar expression Cm ]]
    Similar to the
    .Ic test
    and
    .Ic \&[ No ... Cm \&]
    commands (described later), with the following exceptions:
    .Bl -bullet -offset indent
    .It
    Field splitting and file name generation are not performed on arguments.
    .It
    The
    .Fl a
    .Pq AND
    and
    .Fl o
    .Pq OR
    operators are replaced with
    .Ql &&
    and
    .Ql || ,
    respectively.
    .It
    Operators (e.g.\&
    .Sq Fl f ,
    .Sq = ,
    .Sq \&! )
    must be unquoted.
    .It
    The second operand of the
    .Sq !=
    and
    .Sq =
    expressions are patterns (e.g. the comparison
    .Ic [[ foobar = f*r ]]
    succeeds).
    .It
    The
    .Ql <
    and
    .Ql >
    binary operators do not need to be quoted with the
    .Ql \e
    character.
    .It
    The single argument form of
    .Ic test ,
    which tests if the argument has a non-zero length, is not valid; explicit
    operators must always be used e.g. instead of
    .No \&[ Ar str No \&]
    use
    .No \&[[ -n Ar str No \&]] .
    .It
    Parameter, command, and arithmetic substitutions are performed as expressions
    are evaluated and lazy expression evaluation is used for the
    .Ql &&
    and
    .Ql ||
    operators.
    This means that in the following statement,
    .Ic $(< foo)
    is evaluated if and only if the file
    .Pa foo
    exists and is readable:
    .Bd -literal -offset indent
    $ [[ -r foo && $(< foo) = b*r ]]
    .Ed
    .El
    .El
    .Ss Quoting
    Quoting is used to prevent the shell from treating characters or words
    specially.
    There are three methods of quoting.
    First,
    .Ql \e
    quotes the following character, unless it is at the end of a line, in which
    case both the
    .Ql \e
    and the newline are stripped.
    Second, a single quote
    .Pq Sq '
    quotes everything up to the next single quote (this may span lines).
    Third, a double quote
    .Pq Sq \&"
    quotes all characters, except
    .Ql $ ,
    .Ql `
    and
    .Ql \e ,
    up to the next unquoted double quote.
    .Ql $
    and
    .Ql `
    inside double quotes have their usual meaning (i.e. parameter, command, or
    arithmetic substitution) except no field splitting is carried out on the
    results of double-quoted substitutions.
    If a
    .Ql \e
    inside a double-quoted string is followed by
    .Ql \e ,
    .Ql $ ,
    .Ql ` ,
    or
    .Ql \&" ,
    it is replaced by the second character; if it is followed by a newline, both
    the
    .Ql \e
    and the newline are stripped; otherwise, both the
    .Ql \e
    and the character following are unchanged.
    .Ss Aliases
    There are two types of aliases: normal command aliases and tracked aliases.
    Command aliases are normally used as a short hand for a long or often used
    command.
    The shell expands command aliases (i.e. substitutes the alias name
    for its value) when it reads the first word of a command.
    An expanded alias is re-processed to check for more aliases.
    If a command alias ends in a
    space or tab, the following word is also checked for alias expansion.
    The alias expansion process stops when a word that is not an alias is found,
    when a quoted word is found, or when an alias word that is currently being
    expanded is found.
    .Pp
    The following command aliases are defined automatically by the shell:
    .Pp
    .Bl -item -compact -offset indent
    .It
    .Ic autoload Ns ='typeset -fu'
    .It
    .Ic functions Ns ='typeset -f'
    .It
    .Ic hash Ns ='alias -t'
    .It
    .Ic history Ns ='fc -l'
    .It
    .Ic integer Ns ='typeset -i'
    .It
    .Ic local Ns ='typeset'
    .It
    .Ic login Ns ='exec login'
    .It
    .Ic nohup Ns ='nohup '
    .It
    .Ic r Ns ='fc -s'
    .It
    .Ic stop Ns ='kill -STOP'
    .El
    .Pp
    Tracked aliases allow the shell to remember where it found a particular
    command.
    The first time the shell does a path search for a command that is
    marked as a tracked alias, it saves the full path of the command.
    The next
    time the command is executed, the shell checks the saved path to see that it
    is still valid, and if so, avoids repeating the path search.
    Tracked aliases can be listed and created using
    .Ic alias -t .
    Note that changing the
    .Ev PATH
    parameter clears the saved paths for all tracked aliases.
    If the
    .Ic trackall
    option is set (i.e.\&
    .Ic set -o Ic trackall
    or
    .Ic set -h ) ,
    the shell tracks all commands.
    This option is set automatically for non-interactive shells.
    For interactive shells, only the following commands are
    automatically tracked:
    .Xr cat 1 ,
    .Xr cc 1 ,
    .Xr chmod 1 ,
    .Xr cp 1 ,
    .Xr date 1 ,
    .Xr ed 1 ,
    .Sy emacs ,
    .Xr grep 1 ,
    .Xr ls 1 ,
    .Xr mail 1 ,
    .Xr make 1 ,
    .Xr mv 1 ,
    .Xr pr 1 ,
    .Xr rm 1 ,
    .Xr sed 1 ,
    .Xr sh 1 ,
    .Xr vi 1 ,
    and
    .Xr who 1 .
    .Ss Substitution
    The first step the shell takes in executing a simple-command is to perform
    substitutions on the words of the command.
    There are three kinds of
    substitution: parameter, command, and arithmetic.
    Parameter substitutions,
    which are described in detail in the next section, take the form
    .Pf $ Ar name
    or
    .Pf ${ Ar ... Ns } ;
    command substitutions take the form
    .Pf $( Ar command )
    or
    .Pf ` Ar command Ns ` ;
    and arithmetic substitutions take the form
    .Pf $(( Ar expression ) ) .
    .Pp
    If a substitution appears outside of double quotes, the results of the
    substitution are generally subject to word or field splitting according to
    the current value of the
    .Ev IFS
    parameter.
    The
    .Ev IFS
    parameter specifies a list of characters which are used to break a string up
    into several words; any characters from the set space, tab, and newline that
    appear in the
    .Ev IFS
    characters are called
    .Dq IFS whitespace .
    Sequences of one or more
    .Ev IFS
    whitespace characters, in combination with zero or one
    .Pf non- Ev IFS
    whitespace
    characters, delimit a field.
    As a special case, leading and trailing
    .Ev IFS
    whitespace is stripped (i.e. no leading or trailing empty field is created by
    it); leading
    .Pf non- Ev IFS
    whitespace does create an empty field.
    .Pp
    Example: If
    .Ev IFS
    is set to
    .Dq <space>: ,
    and VAR is set to
    .Dq <space>A<space>:<space><space>B::D ,
    the substitution for $VAR results in four fields:
    .Sq A ,
    .Sq B ,
    .Sq
    (an empty field),
    and
    .Sq D .
    Note that if the
    .Ev IFS
    parameter is set to the
    .Dv NULL
    string, no field splitting is done; if the parameter is unset, the default
    value of space, tab, and newline is used.
    .Pp
    Also, note that the field splitting applies only to the immediate result of
    the substitution.
    Using the previous example, the substitution for $VAR:E
    results in the fields:
    .Sq A ,
    .Sq B ,
    .Sq ,
    and
    .Sq D:E ,
    not
    .Sq A ,
    .Sq B ,
    .Sq ,
    .Sq D ,
    and
    .Sq E .
    This behavior is POSIX compliant, but incompatible with some other shell
    implementations which do field splitting on the word which contained the
    substitution or use
    .Dv IFS
    as a general whitespace delimiter.
    .Pp
    The results of substitution are, unless otherwise specified, also subject to
    brace expansion and file name expansion (see the relevant sections below).
    .Pp
    A command substitution is replaced by the output generated by the specified
    command, which is run in a subshell.
    For
    .Pf $( Ar command )
    substitutions, normal quoting rules are used when
    .Ar command
    is parsed; however, for the
    .Pf ` Ar command Ns `
    form, a
    .Ql \e
    followed by any of
    .Ql $ ,
    .Ql ` ,
    or
    .Ql \e
    is stripped (a
    .Ql \e
    followed by any other character is unchanged).
    As a special case in command substitutions, a command of the form
    .Pf < Ar file
    is interpreted to mean substitute the contents of
    .Ar file .
    Note that
    .Ic $(< foo)
    has the same effect as
    .Ic $(cat foo) ,
    but it is carried out more efficiently because no process is started.
    .Pp
    Arithmetic substitutions are replaced by the value of the specified expression.
    For example, the command
    .Ic echo $((2+3*4))
    prints 14.
    See
    .Sx Arithmetic expressions
    for a description of an expression.
    .Ss Parameters
    Parameters are shell variables; they can be assigned values and their values
    can be accessed using a parameter substitution.
    A parameter name is either one
    of the special single punctuation or digit character parameters described
    below, or a letter followed by zero or more letters or digits
    .Po
    .Ql _
    counts as a letter
    .Pc .
    The latter form can be treated as arrays by appending an array index of the
    form
    .Op Ar expr
    where
    .Ar expr
    is an arithmetic expression.
    Parameter substitutions take the form
    .Pf $ Ar name ,
    .Pf ${ Ar name Ns } ,
    or
    .Sm off
    .Pf ${ Ar name Bo Ar expr Bc }
    .Sm on
    where
    .Ar name
    is a parameter name.
    If
    .Ar expr
    is a literal
    .Ql @
    then the named array is expanded using the same quoting rules as
    .Ql $@ ,
    while if
    .Ar expr
    is a literal
    .Ql *
    then the named array is expanded using the same quoting rules as
    .Ql $* .
    If substitution is performed on a parameter
    (or an array parameter element)
    that is not set, a null string is substituted unless the
    .Ic nounset
    option
    .Po
    .Ic set Fl o Ic nounset
    or
    .Ic set Fl u
    .Pc
    is set, in which case an error occurs.
    .Pp
    Parameters can be assigned values in a number of ways.
    First, the shell implicitly sets some parameters like
    .Ql # ,
    .Ql PWD ,
    and
    .Ql $ ;
    this is the only way the special single character parameters are set.
    Second, parameters are imported from the shell's environment at startup.
    Third, parameters can be assigned values on the command line: for example,
    .Ic FOO=bar
    sets the parameter
    .Dq FOO
    to
    .Dq bar ;
    multiple parameter assignments can be given on a single command line and they
    can be followed by a simple-command, in which case the assignments are in
    effect only for the duration of the command (such assignments are also
    exported; see below for the implications of this).
    Note that both the parameter name and the
    .Ql =
    must be unquoted for the shell to recognize a parameter assignment.
    The fourth way of setting a parameter is with the
    .Ic export ,
    .Ic readonly ,
    and
    .Ic typeset
    commands; see their descriptions in the
    .Sx Command execution
    section.
    Fifth,
    .Ic for
    and
    .Ic select
    loops set parameters as well as the
    .Ic getopts ,
    .Ic read ,
    and
    .Ic set -A
    commands.
    Lastly, parameters can be assigned values using assignment operators
    inside arithmetic expressions (see
    .Sx Arithmetic expressions
    below) or using the
    .Pf ${ Ar name Ns = Ns Ar value Ns }
    form of the parameter substitution (see below).
    .Pp
    Parameters with the export attribute (set using the
    .Ic export
    or
    .Ic typeset Fl x
    commands, or by parameter assignments followed by simple commands) are put in
    the environment (see
    .Xr environ 7 )
    of commands run by the shell as
    .Ar name Ns = Ns Ar value
    pairs.
    The order in which parameters appear in the environment of a command is
    unspecified.
    When the shell starts up, it extracts parameters and their values
    from its environment and automatically sets the export attribute for those
    parameters.
    .Pp
    Modifiers can be applied to the
    .Pf ${ Ar name Ns }
    form of parameter substitution:
    .Bl -tag -width Ds
    .Sm off
    .It ${ Ar name No :- Ar word No }
    .Sm on
    If
    .Ar name
    is set and not
    .Dv NULL ,
    it is substituted; otherwise,
    .Ar word
    is substituted.
    .Sm off
    .It ${ Ar name No :+ Ar word No }
    .Sm on
    If
    .Ar name
    is set and not
    .Dv NULL ,
    .Ar word
    is substituted; otherwise, nothing is substituted.
    .Sm off
    .It ${ Ar name No := Ar word No }
    .Sm on
    If
    .Ar name
    is set and not
    .Dv NULL ,
    it is substituted; otherwise, it is assigned
    .Ar word
    and the resulting value of
    .Ar name
    is substituted.
    .Sm off
    .It ${ Ar name No :? Ar word No }
    .Sm on
    If
    .Ar name
    is set and not
    .Dv NULL ,
    it is substituted; otherwise,
    .Ar word
    is printed on standard error (preceded by
    .Ar name : )
    and an error occurs (normally causing termination of a shell script, function,
    or script sourced using the
    .Sq \&.
    built-in).
    If
    .Ar word
    is omitted, the string
    .Dq parameter null or not set
    is used instead.
    .El
    .Pp
    In the above modifiers, the
    .Ql \&:
    can be omitted, in which case the conditions only depend on
    .Ar name
    being set (as opposed to set and not
    .Dv NULL ) .
    If
    .Ar word
    is needed, parameter, command, arithmetic, and tilde substitution are performed
    on it; if
    .Ar word
    is not needed, it is not evaluated.
    .Pp
    The following forms of parameter substitution can also be used:
    .Pp
    .Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
    .It Pf ${# Ar name Ns }
    The number of positional parameters if
    .Ar name
    is
    .Ql * ,
    .Ql @ ,
    or not specified; otherwise the length of the string value of parameter
    .Ar name .
    .Pp
    .It Pf ${# Ar name Ns [*]}
    .It Pf ${# Ar name Ns [@]}
    The number of elements in the array
    .Ar name .
    .Pp
    .It Pf ${ Ar name Ns # Ns Ar pattern Ns }
    .It Pf ${ Ar name Ns ## Ns Ar pattern Ns }
    If
    .Ar pattern
    matches the beginning of the value of parameter
    .Ar name ,
    the matched text is deleted from the result of substitution.
    A single
    .Ql #
    results in the shortest match, and two
    of them result in the longest match.
    .Pp
    .It Pf ${ Ar name Ns % Ns Ar pattern Ns }
    .It Pf ${ Ar name Ns %% Ns Ar pattern Ns }
    Like ${..#..} substitution, but it deletes from the end of the value.
    .El
    .Pp
    The following special parameters are implicitly set by the shell and cannot be
    set directly using assignments:
    .Bl -tag -width "1 ... 9"
    .It Ev \&!
    Process ID of the last background process started.
    If no background processes have been started, the parameter is not set.
    .It Ev \&#
    The number of positional parameters ($1, $2, etc.).
    .It Ev \&$
    The PID of the shell, or the PID of the original shell if it is a subshell.
    Do
    .Em NOT
    use this mechanism for generating temporary file names; see
    .Xr mktemp 1
    instead.
    .It Ev -
    The concatenation of the current single letter options (see the
    .Ic set
    command below for a list of options).
    .It Ev \&?
    The exit status of the last non-asynchronous command executed.
    If the last command was killed by a signal,
    .Ic $?\&
    is set to 128 plus the signal number.
    .It Ev 0
    The name of the shell, determined as follows:
    the first argument to
    .Nm
    if it was invoked with the
    .Fl c
    option and arguments were given; otherwise the
    .Ar file
    argument, if it was supplied;
    or else the basename the shell was invoked with (i.e.\&
    .Li argv[0] ) .
    .Ev $0
    is also set to the name of the current script or
    the name of the current function, if it was defined with the
    .Ic function
    keyword (i.e. a Korn shell style function).
    .It Ev 1 No ... Ev 9
    The first nine positional parameters that were supplied to the shell, function,
    or script sourced using the
    .Sq \&.
    built-in.
    Further positional parameters may be accessed using
    .Pf ${ Ar number Ns } .
    .It Ev *
    All positional parameters (except parameter 0) i.e. $1, $2, $3, ...
    If used
    outside of double quotes, parameters are separate words (which are subjected
    to word splitting); if used within double quotes, parameters are separated
    by the first character of the
    .Ev IFS
    parameter (or the empty string if
    .Ev IFS
    is
    .Dv NULL ) .
    .It Ev @
    Same as
    .Ic $* ,
    unless it is used inside double quotes, in which case a separate word is
    generated for each positional parameter.
    If there are no positional parameters, no word is generated.
    .Ic $@
    can be used to access arguments, verbatim, without losing
    .Dv NULL
    arguments or splitting arguments with spaces.
    .El
    .Pp
    The following parameters are set and/or used by the shell:
    .Bl -tag -width "EXECSHELL"
    .It Ev _ No (underscore)
    When an external command is executed by the shell, this parameter is set in the
    environment of the new process to the path of the executed command.
    In interactive use, this parameter is also set in the parent shell to the last
    word of the previous command.
    When
    .Ev MAILPATH
    messages are evaluated, this parameter contains the name of the file that
    changed (see the
    .Ev MAILPATH
    parameter, below).
    .It Ev CDPATH
    Search path for the
    .Ic cd
    built-in command.
    It works the same way as
    .Ev PATH
    for those directories not beginning with
    .Ql /
    or
    .Ql .\&
    in
    .Ic cd
    commands.
    Note that if
    .Ev CDPATH
    is set and does not contain
    .Sq \&.
    or an empty path, the current directory is not searched.
    Also, the
    .Ic cd
    built-in command will display the resulting directory when a match is found
    in any search path other than the empty path.
    .It Ev COLUMNS
    Set to the number of columns on the terminal or window.
    Currently set to the
    .Dq cols
    value as reported by
    .Xr stty 1
    if that value is non-zero.
    This parameter is used by the interactive line editing modes, and by the
    .Ic select ,
    .Ic set -o ,
    and
    .Ic kill -l
    commands to format information columns.
    .It Ev EDITOR
    If the
    .Ev VISUAL
    parameter is not set, this parameter controls the command-line editing mode for
    interactive shells.
    See the
    .Ev VISUAL
    parameter below for how this works.
    .Pp
    Note:
    traditionally,
    .Ev EDITOR
    was used to specify the name of an (old-style) line editor, such as
    .Xr ed 1 ,
    and
    .Ev VISUAL
    was used to specify a (new-style) screen editor, such as
    .Xr vi 1 .
    Hence if
    .Ev VISUAL
    is set, it overrides
    .Ev EDITOR .
    .It Ev ENV
    If this parameter is found to be set after any profile files are executed, the
    expanded value is used as a shell startup file.
    It typically contains function and alias definitions.
    .It Ev EXECSHELL
    If set, this parameter is assumed to contain the shell that is to be used to
    execute commands that
    .Xr execve 2
    fails to execute and which do not start with a
    .Dq #! Ns Ar shell
    sequence.
    .It Ev FCEDIT
    The editor used by the
    .Ic fc
    command (see below).
    .It Ev FPATH
    Like
    .Ev PATH ,
    but used when an undefined function is executed to locate the file defining the
    function.
    It is also searched when a command can't be found using
    .Ev PATH .
    See
    .Sx Functions
    below for more information.
    .It Ev HISTCONTROL
    A colon separated list of history settings.
    If
    .Li ignoredups
    is present, lines identical to the previous history line will not be saved.
    If
    .Li ignorespace
    is present, lines starting with a space will not be saved.
    Unknown settings are ignored.
    .It Ev HISTFILE
    The name of the file used to store command history.
    When assigned to, history is loaded from the specified file.
    Also, several invocations of the shell
    running on the same machine will share history if their
    .Ev HISTFILE
    parameters all point to the same file.
    .Pp
    .Sy Note :
    If
    .Ev HISTFILE
    isn't set, no history file is used.
    This is different from the original Korn shell, which uses
    .Pa $HOME/.sh_history .
    .It Ev HISTSIZE
    The number of commands normally stored for history.
    The default is 500.
    .It Ev HOME
    The default directory for the
    .Ic cd
    command and the value substituted for an unqualified
    .Ic ~
    (see
    .Sx Tilde expansion
    below).
    .It Ev IFS
    Internal field separator, used during substitution and by the
    .Ic read
    command, to split values into distinct arguments; normally set to space, tab,
    and newline.
    See
    .Sx Substitution
    above for details.
    .Pp
    .Sy Note :
    This parameter is not imported from the environment when the shell is
    started.
    .It Ev KSH_VERSION
    The version of the shell and the date the version was created (read-only).
    .It Ev LINENO
    The line number of the function or shell script that is currently being
    executed.
    .It Ev LINES
    Set to the number of lines on the terminal or window.
    .It Ev MAIL
    If set, the user will be informed of the arrival of mail in the named file.
    This parameter is ignored if the
    .Ev MAILPATH
    parameter is set.
    .It Ev MAILCHECK
    How often, in seconds, the shell will check for mail in the file(s) specified
    by
    .Ev MAIL
    or
    .Ev MAILPATH .
    If set to 0, the shell checks before each prompt.
    The default is 600 (10 minutes).
    .It Ev MAILPATH
    A list of files to be checked for mail.
    The list is colon separated, and each file may be followed by a
    .Ql \&?
    and a message to be printed if new mail has arrived.
    Command, parameter, and
    arithmetic substitution is performed on the message and, during substitution,
    the parameter
    .Ic $_
    contains the name of the file.
    The default message is
    .Dq you have mail in $_ .
    .It Ev OLDPWD
    The previous working directory.
    Unset if
    .Ic cd
    has not successfully changed directories since the shell started, or if the
    shell doesn't know where it is.
    .It Ev OPTARG
    When using
    .Ic getopts ,
    it contains the argument for a parsed option, if it requires one.
    .It Ev OPTIND
    The index of the next argument to be processed when using
    .Ic getopts .
    Assigning 1 to this parameter causes
    .Ic getopts
    to process arguments from the beginning the next time it is invoked.
    .It Ev PATH
    A colon separated list of directories that are searched when looking for
    commands and files sourced using the
    .Sq \&.
    command (see below).
    An empty string resulting from a leading or trailing
    colon, or two adjacent colons, is treated as a
    .Sq \&.
    (the current directory).
    .It Ev POSIXLY_CORRECT
    If set, this parameter causes the
    .Ic posix
    option to be enabled.
    See
    .Sx POSIX mode
    below.
    .It Ev PPID
    The process ID of the shell's parent (read-only).
    .It Ev PS1
    The primary prompt for interactive shells.
    Parameter, command, and arithmetic
    substitutions are performed,
    and the prompt string can be customised using
    backslash-escaped special characters.
    .Pp
    Note that since the command-line editors try to figure out how long the prompt
    is (so they know how far it is to the edge of the screen), escape codes in
    the prompt tend to mess things up.
    You can tell the shell not to count certain
    sequences (such as escape codes) by using the
    .Li \e[ Ns Ar ... Ns Li \e]
    substitution (see below) or by prefixing your prompt with a non-printing
    character (such as control-A) followed by a carriage return and then delimiting
    the escape codes with this non-printing character.
    By the way, don't blame me for
    this hack; it's in the original
    .Nm .
    .Pp
    The default prompt is the first part of the hostname, followed by
    .Sq $\ \&
    for non-root users,
    .Sq #\ \&
    for root.
    .Pp
    The following backslash-escaped special characters can be used
    to customise the prompt:
    .Pp
    .Bl -tag -width "\eD{format}XX" -compact
    .It Li \ea
    Insert an ASCII bell character.
    .It Li \ed
    The current date, in the format
    .Dq Day Month Date
    for example
    .Dq Wed Nov 03 .
    .It Li \eD Ns Brq Ar format
    The current date, with
    .Ar format
    converted by
    .Xr strftime 3 .
    The braces must be specified.
    .It Li \ee
    Insert an ASCII escape character.
    .It Li \eh
    The hostname, minus domain name.
    .It Li \eH
    The full hostname, including domain name.
    .It Li \ej
    Current number of jobs running
    (see
    .Sx Job control
    below).
    .It Li \el
    The controlling terminal.
    .It Li \en
    Insert a newline character.
    .It Li \er
    Insert a carriage return character.
    .It Li \es
    The name of the shell.
    .It Li \et
    The current time, in 24-hour HH:MM:SS format.
    .It Li \eT
    The current time, in 12-hour HH:MM:SS format.
    .It Li \e@
    The current time, in 12-hour HH:MM:SS AM/PM format.
    .It Li \eA
    The current time, in 24-hour HH:MM format.
    .It Li \eu
    The current user's username.
    .It Li \ev
    The current version of
    .Nm .
    .It Li \eV
    Like
    .Sq \ev ,
    but more verbose.
    .It Li \ew
    The current working directory.
    .Dv $HOME
    is abbreviated as
    .Sq ~ .
    .It Li \eW
    The basename of
    the current working directory.
    .Dv $HOME
    is abbreviated as
    .Sq ~ .
    .It Li \e!
    The current history number.
    An unescaped
    .Ql !\&
    will produce the current history number too,
    as per the POSIX specification.
    A literal
    .Ql \&!
    can be put in the prompt by placing
    .Ql !!
    in
    .Ev PS1 .
    .It Li \e#
    The current command number.
    This could be different to the current history number,
    if
    .Ev HISTFILE
    contains a history list from a previous session.
    .It Li \e$
    The default prompt character i.e.\&
    .Sq #
    if the effective UID is 0,
    otherwise
    .Sq $ .
    Since the shell interprets
    .Sq $
    as a special character within double quotes,
    it is safer in this case to escape the backslash
    than to try quoting it.
    .It Li \e Ns Ar nnn
    The octal character
    .Ar nnn .
    .It Li \e\e
    Insert a single backslash character.
    .It Li \e[
    Normally the shell keeps track of the number of characters in the prompt.
    Use of this sequence turns off that count.
    .It Li \e]
    Use of this sequence turns the count back on.
    .El
    .Pp
    Note that the backslash itself may be interpreted by the shell.
    Hence, to set
    .Ev PS1
    either escape the backslash itself,
    or use double quotes.
    The latter is more practical:
    .Bd -literal -offset indent
    PS1="\eu "
    .Ed
    .Pp
    This is a more complex example,
    which does not rely on the above backslash-escaped sequences.
    It embeds the current working directory,
    in reverse video,
    in the prompt string:
    .Bd -literal -offset indent
    x=$(print \e\e001)
    PS1="$x$(print \e\er)$x$(tput so)$x\e$PWD$x$(tput se)$x> "
    .Ed
    .It Ev PS2
    Secondary prompt string, by default
    .Sq >\ \& ,
    used when more input is needed to complete a command.
    .It Ev PS3
    Prompt used by the
    .Ic select
    statement when reading a menu selection.
    The default is
    .Sq #?\ \& .
    .It Ev PS4
    Used to prefix commands that are printed during execution tracing (see the
    .Ic set Fl x
    command below).
    Parameter, command, and arithmetic substitutions are performed
    before it is printed.
    The default is
    .Sq +\ \& .
    .It Ev PWD
    The current working directory.
    May be unset or
    .Dv NULL
    if the shell doesn't know where it is.
    .It Ev RANDOM
    A random number generator.
    Every time
    .Ev RANDOM
    is referenced, it is assigned the next random number in the range
    0\-32767.
    By default,
    .Xr arc4random 3
    is used to produce values.
    If the variable
    .Ev RANDOM
    is assigned a value, the value is used as the seed to
    .Xr srand_deterministic 3
    and subsequent references of
    .Ev RANDOM
    produce a predictable sequence.
    .It Ev REPLY
    Default parameter for the
    .Ic read
    command if no names are given.
    Also used in
    .Ic select
    loops to store the value that is read from standard input.
    .It Ev SECONDS
    The number of seconds since the shell started or, if the parameter has been
    assigned an integer value, the number of seconds since the assignment plus the
    value that was assigned.
    .It Ev TERM
    The user's terminal type.
    If set, it will be used to determine the escape sequence used to
    clear the screen.
    .It Ev TMOUT
    If set to a positive integer in an interactive shell, it specifies the maximum
    number of seconds the shell will wait for input after printing the primary
    prompt
    .Pq Ev PS1 .
    If the time is exceeded, the shell exits.
    .It Ev TMPDIR
    The directory temporary shell files are created in.
    If this parameter is not
    set, or does not contain the absolute path of a writable directory, temporary
    files are created in
    .Pa /tmp .
    .It Ev VISUAL
    If set, this parameter controls the command-line editing mode for interactive
    shells.
    If the last component of the path specified in this parameter contains
    the string
    .Dq vi ,
    .Dq emacs ,
    or
    .Dq gmacs ,
    the
    .Xr vi 1 ,
    emacs, or gmacs (Gosling emacs) editing mode is enabled, respectively.
    See also the
    .Ev EDITOR
    parameter, above.
    .El
    .Ss Tilde expansion
    Tilde expansion, which is done in parallel with parameter substitution, is done
    on words starting with an unquoted
    .Ql ~ .
    The characters following the tilde, up to the first
    .Ql / ,
    if any, are assumed to be a login name.
    If the login name is empty,
    .Ql + ,
    or
    .Ql - ,
    the value of the
    .Ev HOME ,
    .Ev PWD ,
    or
    .Ev OLDPWD
    parameter is substituted, respectively.
    Otherwise, the password file is
    searched for the login name, and the tilde expression is substituted with the
    user's home directory.
    If the login name is not found in the password file or
    if any quoting or parameter substitution occurs in the login name, no
    substitution is performed.
    .Pp
    In parameter assignments
    (such as those preceding a simple-command or those occurring
    in the arguments of
    .Ic alias ,
    .Ic export ,
    .Ic readonly ,
    and
    .Ic typeset ) ,
    tilde expansion is done after any assignment
    (i.e. after the equals sign)
    or after an unquoted colon
    .Pq Sq \&: ;
    login names are also delimited by colons.
    .Pp
    The home directory of previously expanded login names are cached and re-used.
    The
    .Ic alias -d
    command may be used to list, change, and add to this cache (e.g.\&
    .Ic alias -d fac=/usr/local/facilities; cd ~fac/bin ) .
    .Ss Brace expansion (alternation)
    Brace expressions take the following form:
    .Bd -unfilled -offset indent
    .Sm off
    .Xo
    .Ar prefix No { Ar str1 No ,...,
    .Ar strN No } Ar suffix
    .Xc
    .Sm on
    .Ed
    .Pp
    The expressions are expanded to
    .Ar N
    words, each of which is the concatenation of
    .Ar prefix ,
    .Ar str Ns i ,
    and
    .Ar suffix
    (e.g.\&
    .Dq a{c,b{X,Y},d}e
    expands to four words:
    .Dq ace ,
    .Dq abXe ,
    .Dq abYe ,
    and
    .Dq ade ) .
    As noted in the example, brace expressions can be nested and the resulting
    words are not sorted.
    Brace expressions must contain an unquoted comma
    .Pq Sq \&,
    for expansion to occur (e.g.\&
    .Ic {}
    and
    .Ic {foo}
    are not expanded).
    Brace expansion is carried out after parameter substitution
    and before file name generation.
    .Ss File name patterns
    A file name pattern is a word containing one or more unquoted
    .Ql \&? ,
    .Ql * ,
    .Ql + ,
    .Ql @ ,
    or
    .Ql \&!
    characters or
    .Dq [..]
    sequences.
    Once brace expansion has been performed, the shell replaces file
    name patterns with the sorted names of all the files that match the pattern
    (if no files match, the word is left unchanged).
    The pattern elements have the following meaning:
    .Bl -tag -width Ds
    .It \&?
    Matches any single character.
    .It \&*
    Matches any sequence of characters.
    .It [..]
    Matches any of the characters inside the brackets.
    Ranges of characters can be
    specified by separating two characters by a
    .Ql -
    (e.g.\&
    .Dq [a0-9]
    matches the letter
    .Sq a
    or any digit).
    In order to represent itself, a
    .Ql -
    must either be quoted or the first or last character in the character list.
    Similarly, a
    .Ql \&]
    must be quoted or the first character in the list if it is to represent itself
    instead of the end of the list.
    Also, a
    .Ql \&!
    appearing at the start of the list has special meaning (see below), so to
    represent itself it must be quoted or appear later in the list.
    .Pp
    Within a bracket expression, the name of a
    .Em character class
    enclosed in
    .Sq [:
    and
    .Sq :]
    stands for the list of all characters belonging to that class.
    Supported character classes:
    .Bd -literal -offset indent
    alnum	cntrl	lower	space
    alpha	digit	print	upper
    blank	graph	punct	xdigit
    .Ed
    .Pp
    These match characters using the macros specified in
    .Xr isalnum 3 ,
    .Xr isalpha 3 ,
    and so on.
    A character class may not be used as an endpoint of a range.
    .It [!..]
    Like [..],
    except it matches any character not inside the brackets.
    .Sm off
    .It *( Ar pattern Ns | No ...| Ar pattern )
    .Sm on
    Matches any string of characters that matches zero or more occurrences of the
    specified patterns.
    Example: The pattern
    .Ic *(foo|bar)
    matches the strings
    .Dq ,
    .Dq foo ,
    .Dq bar ,
    .Dq foobarfoo ,
    etc.
    .Sm off
    .It +( Ar pattern Ns | No ...| Ar pattern )
    .Sm on
    Matches any string of characters that matches one or more occurrences of the
    specified patterns.
    Example: The pattern
    .Ic +(foo|bar)
    matches the strings
    .Dq foo ,
    .Dq bar ,
    .Dq foobar ,
    etc.
    .Sm off
    .It ?( Ar pattern Ns | No ...| Ar pattern )
    .Sm on
    Matches the empty string or a string that matches one of the specified
    patterns.
    Example: The pattern
    .Ic ?(foo|bar)
    only matches the strings
    .Dq ,
    .Dq foo ,
    and
    .Dq bar .
    .Sm off
    .It @( Ar pattern Ns | No ...| Ar pattern )
    .Sm on
    Matches a string that matches one of the specified patterns.
    Example: The pattern
    .Ic @(foo|bar)
    only matches the strings
    .Dq foo
    and
    .Dq bar .
    .Sm off
    .It !( Ar pattern Ns | No ...| Ar pattern )
    .Sm on
    Matches any string that does not match one of the specified patterns.
    Examples: The pattern
    .Ic !(foo|bar)
    matches all strings except
    .Dq foo
    and
    .Dq bar ;
    the pattern
    .Ic !(*)
    matches no strings; the pattern
    .Ic !(?)*\&
    matches all strings (think about it).
    .El
    .Pp
    Unlike most shells,
    .Nm ksh
    never matches
    .Sq \&.
    and
    .Sq .. .
    .Pp
    Note that none of the above pattern elements match either a period
    .Pq Sq \&.
    at the start of a file name or a slash
    .Pq Sq / ,
    even if they are explicitly used in a [..] sequence; also, the names
    .Sq \&.
    and
    .Sq ..
    are never matched, even by the pattern
    .Sq .* .
    .Pp
    If the
    .Ic markdirs
    option is set, any directories that result from file name generation are marked
    with a trailing
    .Ql / .
    .Ss Input/output redirection
    When a command is executed, its standard input, standard output, and standard
    error (file descriptors 0, 1, and 2, respectively) are normally inherited from
    the shell.
    Three exceptions to this are commands in pipelines, for which
    standard input and/or standard output are those set up by the pipeline,
    asynchronous commands created when job control is disabled, for which standard
    input is initially set to be from
    .Pa /dev/null ,
    and commands for which any of the following redirections have been specified:
    .Bl -tag -width Ds
    .It Cm > Ar file
    Standard output is redirected to
    .Ar file .
    If
    .Ar file
    does not exist, it is created; if it does exist, is a regular file, and the
    .Ic noclobber
    option is set, an error occurs; otherwise, the file is truncated.
    Note that this means the command
    .Ic cmd < foo > foo
    will open
    .Ar foo
    for reading and then truncate it when it opens it for writing, before
    .Ar cmd
    gets a chance to actually read
    .Ar foo .
    .It Cm >| Ar file
    Same as
    .Cm > ,
    except the file is truncated, even if the
    .Ic noclobber
    option is set.
    .It Cm >> Ar file
    Same as
    .Cm > ,
    except if
    .Ar file
    exists it is appended to instead of being truncated.
    Also, the file is opened
    in append mode, so writes always go to the end of the file (see
    .Xr open 2 ) .
    .It Cm < Ar file
    Standard input is redirected from
    .Ar file ,
    which is opened for reading.
    .It Cm <> Ar file
    Same as
    .Cm < ,
    except the file is opened for reading and writing.
    .It Cm << Ar marker
    After reading the command line containing this kind of redirection (called a
    .Dq here document ) ,
    the shell copies lines from the command source into a temporary file until a
    line matching
    .Ar marker
    is read.
    When the command is executed, standard input is redirected from the
    temporary file.
    If
    .Ar marker
    contains no quoted characters, the contents of the temporary file are processed
    as if enclosed in double quotes each time the command is executed, so
    parameter, command, and arithmetic substitutions are performed, along with
    backslash
    .Pq Sq \e
    escapes for
    .Ql $ ,
    .Ql ` ,
    .Ql \e ,
    and
    .Ql \enewline .
    If multiple here documents are used on the same command line, they are saved in
    order.
    .It Cm <<- Ar marker
    Same as
    .Cm << ,
    except leading tabs are stripped from lines in the here document.
    .It Cm <& Ar fd
    Standard input is duplicated from file descriptor
    .Ar fd .
    .Ar fd
    can be a single digit, indicating the number of an existing file descriptor;
    the letter
    .Ql p ,
    indicating the file descriptor associated with the output of the current
    co-process; or the character
    .Ql - ,
    indicating standard input is to be closed.
    .It Cm >& Ar fd
    Same as
    .Cm <& ,
    except the operation is done on standard output.
    .El
    .Pp
    In any of the above redirections, the file descriptor that is redirected
    (i.e. standard input or standard output)
    can be explicitly given by preceding the
    redirection with a single digit.
    Parameter, command, and arithmetic
    substitutions, tilde substitutions, and (if the shell is interactive)
    file name generation are all performed on the
    .Ar file ,
    .Ar marker ,
    and
    .Ar fd
    arguments of redirections.
    Note, however, that the results of any file name
    generation are only used if a single file is matched; if multiple files match,
    the word with the expanded file name generation characters is used.
    Note
    that in restricted shells, redirections which can create files cannot be used.
    .Pp
    For simple-commands, redirections may appear anywhere in the command; for
    compound-commands
    .Po
    .Ic if
    statements, etc.
    .Pc ,
    any redirections must appear at the end.
    Redirections are processed after
    pipelines are created and in the order they are given, so the following
    will print an error with a line number prepended to it:
    .Pp
    .D1 $ cat /foo/bar 2>&1 > /dev/null | cat -n
    .Ss Arithmetic expressions
    Integer arithmetic expressions can be used with the
    .Ic let
    command, inside $((..)) expressions, inside array references (e.g.\&
    .Ar name Ns Bq Ar expr ) ,
    as numeric arguments to the
    .Ic test
    command, and as the value of an assignment to an integer parameter.
    .Pp
    Expressions may contain alpha-numeric parameter identifiers, array references,
    and integer constants and may be combined with the following C operators
    (listed and grouped in increasing order of precedence):
    .Pp
    Unary operators:
    .Bd -literal -offset indent
    + - ! ~ ++ --
    .Ed
    .Pp
    Binary operators:
    .Bd -literal -offset indent
    ,
    = *= /= %= += -= <<= >>= &= ^= |=
    ||
    &&
    |
    ^
    &
    == !=
    < <= >= >
    << >>
    + -
    * / %
    .Ed
    .Pp
    Ternary operators:
    .Bd -literal -offset indent
    ?: (precedence is immediately higher than assignment)
    .Ed
    .Pp
    Grouping operators:
    .Bd -literal -offset indent
    ( )
    .Ed
    .Pp
    A parameter that is NULL or unset evaluates to 0.
    Integer constants may be specified with arbitrary bases using the notation
    .Ar base Ns # Ns Ar number ,
    where
    .Ar base
    is a decimal integer specifying the base, and
    .Ar number
    is a number in the specified base.
    Additionally,
    integers may be prefixed with
    .Sq 0X
    or
    .Sq 0x
    (specifying base 16)
    or
    .Sq 0
    (base 8)
    in all forms of arithmetic expressions,
    except as numeric arguments to the
    .Ic test
    command.
    .Pp
    The operators are evaluated as follows:
    .Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent
    .It unary +
    Result is the argument (included for completeness).
    .It unary -
    Negation.
    .It \&!
    Logical NOT;
    the result is 1 if argument is zero, 0 if not.
    .It ~
    Arithmetic (bit-wise) NOT.
    .It ++
    Increment; must be applied to a parameter (not a literal or other expression).
    The parameter is incremented by 1.
    When used as a prefix operator, the result
    is the incremented value of the parameter; when used as a postfix operator, the
    result is the original value of the parameter.
    .It --
    Similar to
    .Ic ++ ,
    except the parameter is decremented by 1.
    .It \&,
    Separates two arithmetic expressions; the left-hand side is evaluated first,
    then the right.
    The result is the value of the expression on the right-hand side.
    .It =
    Assignment; the variable on the left is set to the value on the right.
    .It Xo
    .No *= /= += -= <<=
    .No >>= &= ^= |=
    .Xc
    Assignment operators.
    .Sm off
    .Ao Ar var Ac Xo
    .Aq Ar op
    .No = Aq Ar expr
    .Xc
    .Sm on
    is the same as
    .Sm off
    .Ao Ar var Ac Xo
    .No = Aq Ar var
    .Aq Ar op
    .Aq Ar expr ,
    .Xc
    .Sm on
    with any operator precedence in
    .Aq Ar expr
    preserved.
    For example,
    .Dq var1 *= 5 + 3
    is the same as specifying
    .Dq var1 = var1 * (5 + 3) .
    .It ||
    Logical OR;
    the result is 1 if either argument is non-zero, 0 if not.
    The right argument is evaluated only if the left argument is zero.
    .It &&
    Logical AND;
    the result is 1 if both arguments are non-zero, 0 if not.
    The right argument is evaluated only if the left argument is non-zero.
    .It |
    Arithmetic (bit-wise) OR.
    .It ^
    Arithmetic (bit-wise) XOR
    (exclusive-OR).
    .It &
    Arithmetic (bit-wise) AND.
    .It ==
    Equal; the result is 1 if both arguments are equal, 0 if not.
    .It !=
    Not equal; the result is 0 if both arguments are equal, 1 if not.
    .It <
    Less than; the result is 1 if the left argument is less than the right, 0 if
    not.
    .It <= >= >
    Less than or equal, greater than or equal, greater than.
    See
    .Ic < .
    .It << >>
    Shift left (right); the result is the left argument with its bits shifted left
    (right) by the amount given in the right argument.
    .It + - * /
    Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
    .It %
    Remainder; the result is the remainder of the division of the left argument by
    the right.
    The sign of the result is unspecified if either argument is negative.
    .It Xo
    .Sm off
    .Aq Ar arg1 ?
    .Aq Ar arg2 :
    .Aq Ar arg3
    .Sm on
    .Xc
    If
    .Aq Ar arg1
    is non-zero, the result is
    .Aq Ar arg2 ;
    otherwise the result is
    .Aq Ar arg3 .
    .El
    .Ss Co-processes
    A co-process, which is a pipeline created with the
    .Sq |&
    operator, is an asynchronous process that the shell can both write to (using
    .Ic print -p )
    and read from (using
    .Ic read -p ) .
    The input and output of the co-process can also be manipulated using
    .Cm >&p
    and
    .Cm <&p
    redirections, respectively.
    Once a co-process has been started, another can't
    be started until the co-process exits, or until the co-process's input has been
    redirected using an
    .Ic exec Ar n Ns Cm >&p
    redirection.
    If a co-process's input is redirected in this way, the next
    co-process to be started will share the output with the first co-process,
    unless the output of the initial co-process has been redirected using an
    .Ic exec Ar n Ns Cm <&p
    redirection.
    .Pp
    Some notes concerning co-processes:
    .Bl -bullet
    .It
    The only way to close the co-process's input (so the co-process reads an
    end-of-file) is to redirect the input to a numbered file descriptor and then
    close that file descriptor e.g.\&
    .Ic exec 3>&p; exec 3>&- .
    .It
    In order for co-processes to share a common output, the shell must keep the
    write portion of the output pipe open.
    This means that end-of-file will not be
    detected until all co-processes sharing the co-process's output have exited
    (when they all exit, the shell closes its copy of the pipe).
    This can be
    avoided by redirecting the output to a numbered file descriptor (as this also
    causes the shell to close its copy).
    Note that this behaviour is slightly
    different from the original Korn shell which closes its copy of the write
    portion of the co-process output when the most recently started co-process
    (instead of when all sharing co-processes) exits.
    .It
    .Ic print -p
    will ignore
    .Dv SIGPIPE
    signals during writes if the signal is not being trapped or ignored; the same
    is true if the co-process input has been duplicated to another file descriptor
    and
    .Ic print -u Ns Ar n
    is used.
    .El
    .Ss Functions
    Functions are defined using either Korn shell
    .Ic function Ar function-name
    syntax or the Bourne/POSIX shell
    .Ar function-name Ns ()
    syntax (see below for the difference between the two forms).
    Functions are like
    .Li .-scripts
    (i.e. scripts sourced using the
    .Sq \&.
    built-in)
    in that they are executed in the current environment.
    However, unlike
    .Li .-scripts ,
    shell arguments (i.e. positional parameters $1, $2, etc.)\&
    are never visible inside them.
    When the shell is determining the location of a command, functions
    are searched after special built-in commands, before regular and
    non-regular built-ins, and before the
    .Ev PATH
    is searched.
    .Pp
    An existing function may be deleted using
    .Ic unset Fl f Ar function-name .
    A list of functions can be obtained using
    .Ic typeset +f
    and the function definitions can be listed using
    .Ic typeset -f .
    The
    .Ic autoload
    command (which is an alias for
    .Ic typeset -fu )
    may be used to create undefined functions: when an undefined function is
    executed, the shell searches the path specified in the
    .Ev FPATH
    parameter for a file with the same name as the function, which, if found, is
    read and executed.
    If after executing the file the named function is found to
    be defined, the function is executed; otherwise, the normal command search is
    continued (i.e. the shell searches the regular built-in command table and
    .Ev PATH ) .
    Note that if a command is not found using
    .Ev PATH ,
    an attempt is made to autoload a function using
    .Ev FPATH
    (this is an undocumented feature of the original Korn shell).
    .Pp
    Functions can have two attributes,
    .Dq trace
    and
    .Dq export ,
    which can be set with
    .Ic typeset -ft
    and
    .Ic typeset -fx ,
    respectively.
    When a traced function is executed, the shell's
    .Ic xtrace
    option is turned on for the function's duration; otherwise, the
    .Ic xtrace
    option is turned off.
    The
    .Dq export
    attribute of functions is currently not used.
    In the original Korn shell,
    exported functions are visible to shell scripts that are executed.
    .Pp
    Since functions are executed in the current shell environment, parameter
    assignments made inside functions are visible after the function completes.
    If this is not the desired effect, the
    .Ic typeset
    command can be used inside a function to create a local parameter.
    Note that special parameters (e.g.\&
    .Ic \&$$ , $! )
    can't be scoped in this way.
    .Pp
    The exit status of a function is that of the last command executed in the
    function.
    A function can be made to finish immediately using the
    .Ic return
    command; this may also be used to explicitly specify the exit status.
    .Pp
    Functions defined with the
    .Ic function
    reserved word are treated differently in the following ways from functions
    defined with the
    .Ic ()
    notation:
    .Bl -bullet
    .It
    The $0 parameter is set to the name of the function
    (Bourne-style functions leave $0 untouched).
    .It
    Parameter assignments preceding function calls are not kept in the shell
    environment (executing Bourne-style functions will keep assignments).
    .It
    .Ev OPTIND
    is saved/reset and restored on entry and exit from the function so
    .Ic getopts
    can be used properly both inside and outside the function (Bourne-style
    functions leave
    .Ev OPTIND
    untouched, so using
    .Ic getopts
    inside a function interferes with using
    .Ic getopts
    outside the function).
    .El
    .Ss POSIX mode
    The shell is intended to be POSIX compliant;
    however, in some cases, POSIX behaviour is contrary either to
    the original Korn shell behaviour or to user convenience.
    How the shell behaves in these cases is determined by the state of the
    .Ic posix
    option
    .Pq Ic set -o posix .
    If it is on, the POSIX behaviour is followed; otherwise, it is not.
    The
    .Ic posix
    option is set automatically when the shell starts up if the environment
    contains the
    .Ev POSIXLY_CORRECT
    parameter.
    The shell can also be compiled so that it is in POSIX mode by default;
    however, this is usually not desirable.
    .Pp
    The following is a list of things that are affected by the state of the
    .Ic posix
    option:
    .Bl -bullet
    .It
    .Ic kill -l
    output.
    In POSIX mode, only signal names are listed (in a single line);
    in non-POSIX mode,
    signal numbers, names, and descriptions are printed (in columns).
    .It
    .Ic echo
    options.
    In POSIX mode,
    .Fl e
    and
    .Fl E
    are not treated as options, but printed like other arguments;
    in non-POSIX mode, these options control the interpretation
    of backslash sequences.
    .It
    .Ic fg
    exit status.
    In POSIX mode, the exit status is 0 if no errors occur;
    in non-POSIX mode, the exit status is that of the last foregrounded job.
    .It
    .Ic eval
    exit status.
    If
    .Ic eval
    gets to see an empty command (i.e.\&
    .Ic eval `false` ) ,
    its exit status in POSIX mode will be 0.
    In non-POSIX mode,
    it will be the exit status of the last command substitution that was
    done in the processing of the arguments to
    .Ic eval
    (or 0 if there were no command substitutions).
    .It
    .Ic getopts .
    In POSIX mode, options must start with a
    .Ql - ;
    in non-POSIX mode, options can start with either
    .Ql -
    or
    .Ql + .
    .It
    Brace expansion (also known as alternation).
    In POSIX mode, brace expansion is disabled;
    in non-POSIX mode, brace expansion is enabled.
    Note that
    .Ic set -o posix
    (or setting the
    .Ev POSIXLY_CORRECT
    parameter) automatically turns the
    .Ic braceexpand
    option off; however, it can be explicitly turned on later.
    .It
    .Ic set - .
    In POSIX mode, this does not clear the
    .Ic verbose
    or
    .Ic xtrace
    options; in non-POSIX mode, it does.
    .It
    .Ic set
    exit status.
    In POSIX mode, the exit status of
    .Ic set
    is 0 if there are no errors;
    in non-POSIX mode, the exit status is that of any
    command substitutions performed in generating the
    .Ic set
    command.
    For example,
    .Ic set -- `false`; echo $?\&
    prints 0 in POSIX mode, 1 in non-POSIX mode.
    This construct is used in most shell scripts that use the old
    .Xr getopt 1
    command.
    .It
    Argument expansion of the
    .Ic alias ,
    .Ic export ,
    .Ic readonly ,
    and
    .Ic typeset
    commands.
    In POSIX mode, normal argument expansion is done; in non-POSIX mode,
    field splitting, file globbing, brace expansion, and (normal) tilde expansion
    are turned off, while assignment tilde expansion is turned on.
    .It
    Signal specification.
    In POSIX mode, signals can be specified as digits, only
    if signal numbers match POSIX values
    (i.e. HUP=1, INT=2, QUIT=3, ABRT=6, KILL=9, ALRM=14, and TERM=15);
    in non-POSIX mode, signals can always be digits.
    .It
    Alias expansion.
    In POSIX mode, alias expansion is only carried out when reading command words;
    in non-POSIX mode, alias expansion is carried out on any
    word following an alias that ended in a space.
    For example, the following
    .Ic for
    loop uses parameter
    .Sq i
    in POSIX mode and
    .Sq j
    in non-POSIX mode:
    .Bd -literal -offset indent
    alias a='for ' i='j'
    a i in 1 2; do echo i=$i j=$j; done
    .Ed
    .It
    .Ic test .
    In POSIX mode, the expression
    .Sq Fl t
    (preceded by some number of
    .Sq \&!
    arguments) is always true as it is a non-zero length string;
    in non-POSIX mode, it tests if file descriptor 1 is a
    .Xr tty 4
    (i.e. the
    .Ar fd
    argument to the
    .Fl t
    test may be left out and defaults to 1).
    .El
    .Ss Strict Bourne shell mode
    When the
    .Ic sh
    option is enabled (see the
    .Ic set
    command),
    .Nm
    will behave like
    .Xr sh 1
    in the following ways:
    .Bl -bullet
    .It
    The parameter
    .Ic $_
    is not set to:
    .Pp
    .Bl -dash -compact
    .It
    the expanded alias' full program path after entering commands
    that are tracked aliases
    .It
    the last argument on the command line after entering external
    commands
    .It
    the file that changed when
    .Ev MAILPATH
    is set to monitor a mailbox
    .El
    .It
    File descriptors are left untouched when executing
    .Ic exec
    with no arguments.
    .It
    Backslash-escaped special characters are not substituted in
    .Ev PS1 .
    .It
    Sequences of
    .Sq ((...))
    are not interpreted as arithmetic expressions.
    .El
    .Ss Command execution
    After evaluation of command-line arguments, redirections, and parameter
    assignments, the type of command is determined: a special built-in, a
    function, a regular built-in, or the name of a file to execute found using the
    .Ev PATH
    parameter.
    The checks are made in the above order.
    Special built-in commands differ from other commands in that the
    .Ev PATH
    parameter is not used to find them, an error during their execution can
    cause a non-interactive shell to exit, and parameter assignments that are
    specified before the command are kept after the command completes.
    Just to confuse things, if the
    .Ic posix
    option is turned off (see the
    .Ic set
    command below), some special commands are very special in that no field
    splitting, file globbing, brace expansion, nor tilde expansion is performed
    on arguments that look like assignments.
    Regular built-in commands are different only in that the
    .Ev PATH
    parameter is not used to find them.
    .Pp
    The original
    .Nm ksh
    and POSIX differ somewhat in which commands are considered
    special or regular:
    .Pp
    POSIX special commands
    .Pp
    .Ic \&. , \&: , break , continue ,
    .Ic eval , exec , exit , export ,
    .Ic readonly , return , set , shift ,
    .Ic times , trap , unset
    .Pp
    Additional
    .Nm
    special commands
    .Pp
    .Ic builtin , typeset
    .Pp
    Very special commands
    .Pq when POSIX mode is off
    .Pp
    .Ic alias , readonly , set , typeset
    .Pp
    POSIX regular commands
    .Pp
    .Ic alias , bg , cd , command ,
    .Ic false , fc , fg , getopts ,
    .Ic jobs , kill , pwd , read ,
    .Ic true , umask , unalias , wait
    .Pp
    Additional
    .Nm
    regular commands
    .Pp
    .Ic \&[ , echo , let ,
    .Ic print , suspend , test ,
    .Ic ulimit , whence
    .Pp
    Once the type of command has been determined, any command-line parameter
    assignments are performed and exported for the duration of the command.
    .Pp
    The following describes the special and regular built-in commands:
    .Pp
    .Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
    .It Ic \&. Ar file Op Ar arg ...
    Execute the commands in
    .Ar file
    in the current environment.
    The file is searched for in the directories of
    .Ev PATH .
    If arguments are given, the positional parameters may be used to access them
    while
    .Ar file
    is being executed.
    If no arguments are given, the positional parameters are
    those of the environment the command is used in.
    .Pp
    .It Ic \&: Op Ar ...
    The null command.
    Exit status is set to zero.
    .Pp
    .It Xo Ic alias
    .Oo Fl d | t Oo Fl r Oc |
    .Cm +-x Oc
    .Op Fl p
    .Op Cm +
    .Oo Ar name
    .Op Ns = Ns Ar value
    .Ar ... Oc
    .Xc
    Without arguments,
    .Ic alias
    lists all aliases.
    For any name without a value, the existing alias is listed.
    Any name with a value defines an alias (see
    .Sx Aliases
    above).
    .Pp
    When listing aliases, one of two formats is used.
    Normally, aliases are listed as
    .Ar name Ns = Ns Ar value ,
    where
    .Ar value
    is quoted.
    If options were preceded with
    .Ql + ,
    or a lone
    .Ql +
    is given on the command line, only
    .Ar name
    is printed.
    .Pp
    The
    .Fl d
    option causes directory aliases, which are used in tilde expansion, to be
    listed or set (see
    .Sx Tilde expansion
    above).
    .Pp
    If the
    .Fl p
    option is used, each alias is prefixed with the string
    .Dq alias\ \& .
    .Pp
    The
    .Fl t
    option indicates that tracked aliases are to be listed/set (values specified on
    the command line are ignored for tracked aliases).
    The
    .Fl r
    option indicates that all tracked aliases are to be reset.
    .Pp
    The
    .Fl x
    option sets
    .Pq Ic +x No clears
    the export attribute of an alias or, if no names are given, lists the aliases
    with the export attribute (exporting an alias has no effect).
    .Pp
    .It Ic bg Op Ar job ...
    Resume the specified stopped job(s) in the background.
    If no jobs are specified,
    .Ic %+
    is assumed.
    See
    .Sx Job control
    below for more information.
    .Pp
    .It Ic bind Op Fl l
    The current bindings are listed.
    If the
    .Fl l
    flag is given,
    .Ic bind
    instead lists the names of the functions to which keys may be bound.
    See
    .Sx Emacs editing mode
    for more information.
    .Pp
    .It Xo Ic bind Op Fl m
    .Ar string Ns = Ns Op Ar substitute
    .Ar ...
    .Xc
    .It Xo Ic bind
    .Ar string Ns = Ns Op Ar editing-command
    .Ar ...
    .Xc
    In
    .Sx Emacs editing mode ,
    the specified editing command is bound to the given
    .Ar string .
    Future input of the
    .Ar string
    will cause the editing command to be immediately invoked.
    Bindings have no effect in
    .Sx Vi editing mode .
    .Pp
    If the
    .Fl m
    flag is given, the specified input
    .Ar string
    will afterwards be immediately replaced by the given
    .Ar substitute
    string, which may contain editing commands.
    Control characters may be written using caret notation.
    For example, ^X represents Control-X.
    .Pp
    If a certain character occurs as the first character of any bound
    multi-character
    .Ar string
    sequence, that character becomes a command prefix character.
    Any character sequence that starts with a command prefix character
    but that is not bound to a command or substitute
    is implicitly considered as bound to the
    .Sq error
    command.
    By default, two command prefix characters exist:
    Escape
    .Pq ^[
    and Control-X
    .Pq ^X .
    .Pp
    The following default bindings show how the arrow keys
    on an ANSI terminal or xterm are bound
    (of course some escape sequences won't work out quite this nicely):
    .Bd -literal -offset indent
    bind '^[[A'=up-history
    bind '^[[B'=down-history
    bind '^[[C'=forward-char
    bind '^[[D'=backward-char
    .Ed
    .Pp
    .It Ic break Op Ar level
    Exit the
    .Ar level Ns th
    inner-most
    .Ic for ,
    .Ic select ,
    .Ic until ,
    or
    .Ic while
    loop.
    .Ar level
    defaults to 1.
    .Pp
    .It Ic builtin Ar command Op Ar arg ...
    Execute the built-in command
    .Ar command .
    .Pp
    .It Xo
    .Ic cd
    .Op Fl LP
    .Op Ar dir
    .Xc
    Set the working directory to
    .Ar dir .
    If the parameter
    .Ev CDPATH
    is set, it lists the search path for the directory containing
    .Ar dir .
    A
    .Dv NULL
    path or
    .Ql .\&
    means the current directory.
    If
    .Ar dir
    is found in any component of the
    .Ev CDPATH
    search path other than the
    .Dv NULL
    path, the name of the new working directory will be written to standard output.
    If
    .Ar dir
    is missing, the home directory
    .Ev HOME
    is used.
    If
    .Ar dir
    is
    .Ql - ,
    the previous working directory is used (see the
    .Ev OLDPWD
    parameter).
    .Pp
    If the
    .Fl L
    option (logical path) is used or if the
    .Ic physical
    option isn't set (see the
    .Ic set
    command below), references to
    .Sq ..
    in
    .Ar dir
    are relative to the path used to get to the directory.
    If the
    .Fl P
    option (physical path) is used or if the
    .Ic physical
    option is set,
    .Sq ..
    is relative to the filesystem directory tree.
    The
    .Ev PWD
    and
    .Ev OLDPWD
    parameters are updated to reflect the current and old working directory,
    respectively.
    .Pp
    .It Xo
    .Ic cd
    .Op Fl LP
    .Ar old new
    .Xc
    The string
    .Ar new
    is substituted for
    .Ar old
    in the current directory, and the shell attempts to change to the new
    directory.
    .Pp
    .It Xo
    .Ic command
    .Op Fl pVv
    .Ar cmd
    .Op Ar arg ...
    .Xc
    If neither the
    .Fl v
    nor
    .Fl V
    option is given,
    .Ar cmd
    is executed exactly as if
    .Ic command
    had not been specified, with two exceptions:
    firstly,
    .Ar cmd
    cannot be an alias or a shell function;
    and secondly, special built-in commands lose their specialness
    (i.e. redirection and utility errors do not cause the shell to
    exit, and command assignments are not permanent).
    .Pp
    If the
    .Fl p
    option is given, a default search path is used instead of the current value of
    .Ev PATH
    (the actual value of the default path is system dependent: on
    POSIX-ish systems, it is the value returned by
    .Ic getconf PATH ) .
    Nevertheless, reserved words, aliases, shell functions, and
    builtin commands are still found before external commands.
    .Pp
    If the
    .Fl v
    option is given, instead of executing
    .Ar cmd ,
    information about what would be executed is given (and the same is done for
    .Ar arg ... ) .
    For special and regular built-in commands and functions, their names are simply
    printed; for aliases, a command that defines them is printed; and for commands
    found by searching the
    .Ev PATH
    parameter, the full path of the command is printed.
    If no command is found
    (i.e. the path search fails), nothing is printed and
    .Ic command
    exits with a non-zero status.
    The
    .Fl V
    option is like the
    .Fl v
    option, except it is more verbose.
    .Pp
    .It Ic continue Op Ar level
    Jumps to the beginning of the
    .Ar level Ns th
    inner-most
    .Ic for ,
    .Ic select ,
    .Ic until ,
    or
    .Ic while
    loop.
    .Ar level
    defaults to 1.
    .Pp
    .It Xo
    .Ic echo
    .Op Fl Een
    .Op Ar arg ...
    .Xc
    Prints its arguments (separated by spaces) followed by a newline, to the
    standard output.
    The newline is suppressed if any of the arguments contain the
    backslash sequence
    .Ql \ec .
    See the
    .Ic print
    command below for a list of other backslash sequences that are recognized.
    .Pp
    The options are provided for compatibility with
    .Bx
    shell scripts.
    The
    .Fl n
    option suppresses the trailing newline,
    .Fl e
    enables backslash interpretation (a no-op, since this is normally done), and
    .Fl E
    suppresses backslash interpretation.
    If the
    .Ic posix
    option is set, only the first argument is treated as an option, and only
    if it is exactly
    .Dq -n .
    .Pp
    .It Ic eval Ar command ...
    The arguments are concatenated (with spaces between them) to form a single
    string which the shell then parses and executes in the current environment.
    .Pp
    .It Xo
    .Ic exec
    .Op Ar command Op Ar arg ...
    .Xc
    The command is executed without forking, replacing the shell process.
    .Pp
    If no command is given except for I/O redirection, the I/O redirection is
    permanent and the shell is
    not replaced.
    Any file descriptors greater than 2 which are opened or
    .Xr dup 2 Ns 'd
    in this way are not made available to other executed commands (i.e. commands
    that are not built-in to the shell).
    Note that the Bourne shell differs here;
    it does pass these file descriptors on.
    .Pp
    .It Ic exit Op Ar status
    The shell exits with the specified exit status.
    If
    .Ar status
    is not specified, the exit status is the current value of the
    .Ic $?\&
    parameter.
    .Pp
    .It Xo
    .Ic export
    .Op Fl p
    .Op Ar parameter Ns Op = Ns Ar value
    .Xc
    Sets the export attribute of the named parameters.
    Exported parameters are passed in the environment to executed commands.
    If values are specified, the named parameters are also assigned.
    .Pp
    If no parameters are specified, the names of all parameters with the export
    attribute are printed one per line, unless the
    .Fl p
    option is used, in which case
    .Ic export
    commands defining all exported parameters, including their values, are printed.
    .Pp
    .It Ic false
    A command that exits with a non-zero status.
    .Pp
    .It Xo
    .Ic fc
    .Oo
    .Fl e Ar editor |
    .Fl l Op Fl n
    .Oc
    .Op Fl r
    .Op Ar first Op Ar last
    .Xc
    Fix command.
    .Ar first
    and
    .Ar last
    select commands from the history.
    Commands can be selected by history number
    or a string specifying the most recent command starting with that string.
    The
    .Fl l
    option lists the command on standard output, and
    .Fl n
    inhibits the default command numbers.
    The
    .Fl r
    option reverses the order of the list.
    Without
    .Fl l ,
    the selected commands are edited by the editor specified with the
    .Fl e
    option, or if no
    .Fl e
    is specified, the editor specified by the
    .Ev FCEDIT
    parameter (if this parameter is not set,
    .Pa /bin/ed
    is used), and then executed by the shell.
    .Pp
    .It Xo
    .Ic fc Fl s
    .Op Fl g
    .Op Ar old Ns = Ns Ar new
    .Op Ar prefix
    .Xc
    Re-execute the most recent command beginning with
    .Ar prefix ,
    or the previous command if no
    .Ar prefix
    is specified,
    performing the optional substitution of
    .Ar old
    with
    .Ar new .
    If
    .Fl g
    is specified, all occurrences of
    .Ar old
    are replaced with
    .Ar new .
    The editor is not invoked when the
    .Fl s
    flag is used.
    The obsolescent equivalent
    .Dq Fl e No -
    is also accepted.
    This command is usually accessed with the predefined
    .Ic alias r='fc -s' .
    .Pp
    .It Ic fg Op Ar job ...
    Resume the specified job(s) in the foreground.
    If no jobs are specified,
    .Ic %+
    is assumed.
    See
    .Sx Job control
    below for more information.
    .Pp
    .It Xo
    .Ic getopts
    .Ar optstring name
    .Op Ar arg ...
    .Xc
    Used by shell procedures to parse the specified arguments (or positional
    parameters, if no arguments are given) and to check for legal options.
    .Ar optstring
    contains the option letters that
    .Ic getopts
    is to recognize.
    If a letter is followed by a colon, the option is expected to
    have an argument.
    Options that do not take arguments may be grouped in a single argument.
    If an option takes an argument and the option character is not the
    last character of the argument it is found in, the remainder of the argument is
    taken to be the option's argument; otherwise, the next argument is the option's
    argument.
    .Pp
    Each time
    .Ic getopts
    is invoked, it places the next option in the shell parameter
    .Ar name
    and the index of the argument to be processed by the next call to
    .Ic getopts
    in the shell parameter
    .Ev OPTIND .
    If the option was introduced with a
    .Ql + ,
    the option placed in
    .Ar name
    is prefixed with a
    .Ql + .
    When an option requires an argument,
    .Ic getopts
    places it in the shell parameter
    .Ev OPTARG .
    .Pp
    When an illegal option or a missing option argument is encountered, a question
    mark or a colon is placed in
    .Ar name
    (indicating an illegal option or missing argument, respectively) and
    .Ev OPTARG
    is set to the option character that caused the problem.
    Furthermore, if
    .Ar optstring
    does not begin with a colon, a question mark is placed in
    .Ar name ,
    .Ev OPTARG
    is unset, and an error message is printed to standard error.
    .Pp
    When the end of the options is encountered,
    .Ic getopts
    exits with a non-zero exit status.
    Options end at the first (non-option
    argument) argument that does not start with a
    .Ql - ,
    or when a
    .Ql --
    argument is encountered.
    .Pp
    Option parsing can be reset by setting
    .Ev OPTIND
    to 1 (this is done automatically whenever the shell or a shell procedure is
    invoked).
    .Pp
    Warning: Changing the value of the shell parameter
    .Ev OPTIND
    to a value other than 1, or parsing different sets of arguments without
    resetting
    .Ev OPTIND ,
    may lead to unexpected results.
    .Pp
    .It Xo
    .Ic hash
    .Op Fl r
    .Op Ar name ...
    .Xc
    Without arguments, any hashed executable command pathnames are listed.
    The
    .Fl r
    option causes all hashed commands to be removed from the hash table.
    Each
    .Ar name
    is searched as if it were a command name and added to the hash table if it is
    an executable command.
    .Pp
    .It Xo
    .Ic jobs
    .Op Fl lnp
    .Op Ar job ...
    .Xc
    Display information about the specified job(s); if no jobs are specified, all
    jobs are displayed.
    The
    .Fl n
    option causes information to be displayed only for jobs that have changed
    state since the last notification.
    If the
    .Fl l
    option is used, the process ID of each process in a job is also listed.
    The
    .Fl p
    option causes only the process group of each job to be printed.
    See
    .Sx Job control
    below for the format of
    .Ar job
    and the displayed job.
    .Pp
    .It Xo
    .Ic kill
    .Oo Fl s Ar signame |
    .No - Ns Ar signum |
    .No - Ns Ar signame Oc
    .No { Ar job | pid | pgrp No }
    .Ar ...
    .Xc
    Send the specified signal to the specified jobs, process IDs, or process
    groups.
    If no signal is specified, the
    .Dv TERM
    signal is sent.
    If a job is specified, the signal is sent to the job's process group.
    See
    .Sx Job control
    below for the format of
    .Ar job .
    .Pp
    .It Xo
    .Ic kill
    .Fl l
    .Op Ar exit-status ...
    .Xc
    Print the signal name corresponding to
    .Ar exit-status .
    If no arguments are specified, a list of all the signals, their numbers, and
    a short description of them are printed.
    .Pp
    .It Ic let Op Ar expression ...
    Each expression is evaluated (see
    .Sx Arithmetic expressions
    above).
    If all expressions are successfully evaluated, the exit status is 0 (1)
    if the last expression evaluated to non-zero (zero).
    If an error occurs during
    the parsing or evaluation of an expression, the exit status is greater than 1.
    Since expressions may need to be quoted,
    .No (( Ar expr No ))
    is syntactic sugar for
    .No let \&" Ns Ar expr Ns \&" .
    .Pp
    .It Xo
    .Ic print
    .Oo
    .Fl nprsu Ns Oo Ar n Oc |
    .Fl R Op Fl en
    .Oc
    .Op Ar argument ...
    .Xc
    .Ic print
    prints its arguments on the standard output, separated by spaces and
    terminated with a newline.
    The
    .Fl n
    option suppresses the newline.
    By default, certain C escapes are translated.
    These include
    .Ql \eb ,
    .Ql \ef ,
    .Ql \en ,
    .Ql \er ,
    .Ql \et ,
    .Ql \ev ,
    and
    .Ql \e0###
    .Po
    .Ql #
    is an octal digit, of which there may be 0 to 3
    .Pc .
    .Ql \ec
    is equivalent to using the
    .Fl n
    option.
    .Ql \e
    expansion may be inhibited with the
    .Fl r
    option.
    The
    .Fl s
    option prints to the history file instead of standard output; the
    .Fl u
    option prints to file descriptor
    .Ar n
    .Po
    .Ar n
    defaults to 1 if omitted
    .Pc ;
    and the
    .Fl p
    option prints to the co-process (see
    .Sx Co-processes
    above).
    .Pp
    The
    .Fl R
    option is used to emulate, to some degree, the
    .Bx
    .Xr echo 1
    command, which does not process
    .Ql \e
    sequences unless the
    .Fl e
    option is given.
    As above, the
    .Fl n
    option suppresses the trailing newline.
    .Pp
    .It Ic pwd Op Fl LP
    Print the present working directory.
    If the
    .Fl L
    option is used or if the
    .Ic physical
    option isn't set (see the
    .Ic set
    command below), the logical path is printed (i.e. the path used to
    .Ic cd
    to the current directory).
    If the
    .Fl P
    option (physical path) is used or if the
    .Ic physical
    option is set, the path determined from the filesystem (by following
    .Sq ..
    directories to the root directory) is printed.
    .Pp
    .It Xo
    .Ic read
    .Op Fl prsu Ns Op Ar n
    .Op Ar parameter ...
    .Xc
    Reads a line of input from the standard input, separates the line into fields
    using the
    .Ev IFS
    parameter (see
    .Sx Substitution
    above), and assigns each field to the specified parameters.
    If there are more parameters than fields, the extra parameters are set to
    .Dv NULL ,
    or alternatively, if there are more fields than parameters, the last parameter
    is assigned the remaining fields (inclusive of any separating spaces).
    If no parameters are specified, the
    .Ev REPLY
    parameter is used.
    If the input line ends in a backslash and the
    .Fl r
    option was not used, the backslash and the newline are stripped and more input
    is read.
    If no input is read,
    .Ic read
    exits with a non-zero status.
    .Pp
    The first parameter may have a question mark and a string appended to it, in
    which case the string is used as a prompt (printed to standard error before
    any input is read) if the input is a
    .Xr tty 4
    (e.g.\&
    .Ic read nfoo?'number of foos: ' ) .
    .Pp
    The
    .Fl u Ns Ar n
    and
    .Fl p
    options cause input to be read from file descriptor
    .Ar n
    .Pf ( Ar n
    defaults to 0 if omitted)
    or the current co-process (see
    .Sx Co-processes
    above for comments on this), respectively.
    If the
    .Fl s
    option is used, input is saved to the history file.
    .Pp
    .It Xo
    .Ic readonly
    .Op Fl p
    .Oo Ar parameter
    .Op Ns = Ns Ar value
    .Ar ... Oc
    .Xc
    Sets the read-only attribute of the named parameters.
    If values are given,
    parameters are set to them before setting the attribute.
    Once a parameter is
    made read-only, it cannot be unset and its value cannot be changed.
    .Pp
    If no parameters are specified, the names of all parameters with the read-only
    attribute are printed one per line, unless the
    .Fl p
    option is used, in which case
    .Ic readonly
    commands defining all read-only parameters, including their values, are
    printed.
    .Pp
    .It Ic return Op Ar status
    Returns from a function or
    .Ic .\&
    script, with exit status
    .Ar status .
    If no
    .Ar status
    is given, the exit status of the last executed command is used.
    If used outside of a function or
    .Ic .\&
    script, it has the same effect as
    .Ic exit .
    Note that
    .Nm ksh
    treats both profile and
    .Ev ENV
    files as
    .Ic .\&
    scripts, while the original Korn shell only treats profiles as
    .Ic .\&
    scripts.
    .Pp
    .It Xo
    .Ic set Op Ic +-abCefhkmnpsuvXx
    .Op Ic +-o Ar option
    .Op Ic +-A Ar name
    .Op Fl -
    .Op Ar arg ...
    .Xc
    The
    .Ic set
    command can be used to set
    .Pq Ic -
    or clear
    .Pq Ic +
    shell options, set the positional parameters, or set an array parameter.
    Options can be changed using the
    .Cm +-o Ar option
    syntax, where
    .Ar option
    is the long name of an option, or using the
    .Cm +- Ns Ar letter
    syntax, where
    .Ar letter
    is the option's single letter name (not all options have a single letter name).
    The following table lists both option letters (if they exist) and long names
    along with a description of what the option does:
    .Bl -tag -width 15n
    .It Fl A Ar name
    Sets the elements of the array parameter
    .Ar name
    to
    .Ar arg ...
    If
    .Fl A
    is used, the array is reset (i.e. emptied) first; if
    .Ic +A
    is used, the first N elements are set (where N is the number of arguments);
    the rest are left untouched.
    .It Fl a | Ic allexport
    All new parameters are created with the export attribute.
    .It Fl b | Ic notify
    Print job notification messages asynchronously, instead of just before the
    prompt.
    Only used if job control is enabled
    .Pq Fl m .
    .It Fl C | Ic noclobber
    Prevent
    .Cm >
    redirection from overwriting existing files.
    Instead,
    .Cm >|
    must be used to force an overwrite.
    .It Fl e | Ic errexit
    Exit (after executing the
    .Dv ERR
    trap) as soon as an error occurs or a command fails (i.e. exits with a
    non-zero status).
    This does not apply to commands whose exit status is
    explicitly tested by a shell construct such as
    .Ic if ,
    .Ic until ,
    .Ic while ,
    or
    .Ic !\&
    statements.
    For
    .Ic &&
    or
    .Ic || ,
    only the status of the last command is tested.
    .It Fl f | Ic noglob
    Do not expand file name patterns.
    .It Fl h | Ic trackall
    Create tracked aliases for all executed commands (see
    .Sx Aliases
    above).
    Enabled by default for non-interactive shells.
    .It Fl k | Ic keyword
    Parameter assignments are recognized anywhere in a command.
    .It Fl m | Ic monitor
    Enable job control (default for interactive shells).
    .It Fl n | Ic noexec
    Do not execute any commands.
    Useful for checking the syntax of scripts
    (ignored if interactive).
    .It Fl p | Ic privileged
    The shell is a privileged shell.
    It is set automatically if, when the shell starts,
    the real UID or GID does not match
    the effective UID (EUID) or GID (EGID), respectively.
    See above for a description of what this means.
    .It Fl s | Ic stdin
    If used when the shell is invoked, commands are read from standard input.
    Set automatically if the shell is invoked with no arguments.
    .Pp
    When
    .Fl s
    is used with the
    .Ic set
    command it causes the specified arguments to be sorted before assigning them to
    the positional parameters (or to array
    .Ar name ,
    if
    .Fl A
    is used).
    .It Fl u | Ic nounset
    Referencing of an unset parameter is treated as an error, unless one of the
    .Ql - ,
    .Ql + ,
    or
    .Ql =
    modifiers is used.
    .It Fl v | Ic verbose
    Write shell input to standard error as it is read.
    .It Fl X | Ic markdirs
    Mark directories with a trailing
    .Ql /
    during file name generation.
    .It Fl x | Ic xtrace
    Print commands and parameter assignments when they are executed, preceded by
    the value of
    .Ev PS4 .
    .It Ic bgnice
    Background jobs are run with lower priority.
    .It Ic braceexpand
    Enable brace expansion (a.k.a. alternation).
    .It Ic csh-history
    Enables a subset of
    .Xr csh 1 Ns -style
    history editing using the
    .Ql !\&
    character.
    .It Ic emacs
    Enable BRL emacs-like command-line editing (interactive shells only); see
    .Sx Emacs editing mode .
    .It Ic gmacs
    Enable gmacs-like command-line editing (interactive shells only).
    Currently identical to emacs editing except that transpose (^T) acts slightly
    differently.
    .It Ic ignoreeof
    The shell will not (easily) exit when end-of-file is read;
    .Ic exit
    must be used.
    To avoid infinite loops, the shell will exit if
    .Dv EOF
    is read 13 times in a row.
    .It Ic interactive
    The shell is an interactive shell.
    This option can only be used when the shell is invoked.
    See above for a description of what this means.
    .It Ic login
    The shell is a login shell.
    This option can only be used when the shell is invoked.
    See above for a description of what this means.
    .It Ic nohup
    Do not kill running jobs with a
    .Dv SIGHUP
    signal when a login shell exits.
    Currently set by default;
    this is different from the original Korn shell (which
    doesn't have this option, but does send the
    .Dv SIGHUP
    signal).
    .It Ic nolog
    No effect.
    In the original Korn shell, this prevents function definitions from
    being stored in the history file.
    .It Ic physical
    Causes the
    .Ic cd
    and
    .Ic pwd
    commands to use
    .Dq physical
    (i.e. the filesystem's)
    .Sq ..
    directories instead of
    .Dq logical
    directories (i.e. the shell handles
    .Sq .. ,
    which allows the user to be oblivious of symbolic links to directories).
    Clear by default.
    Note that setting this option does not affect the current value of the
    .Ev PWD
    parameter; only the
    .Ic cd
    command changes
    .Ev PWD .
    See the
    .Ic cd
    and
    .Ic pwd
    commands above for more details.
    .It Ic posix
    Enable POSIX mode.
    See
    .Sx POSIX mode
    above.
    .It Ic restricted
    The shell is a restricted shell.
    This option can only be used when the shell is invoked.
    See above for a description of what this means.
    .It Ic sh
    Enable strict Bourne shell mode (see
    .Sx Strict Bourne shell mode
    above).
    .It Ic vi
    Enable
    .Xr vi 1 Ns -like
    command-line editing (interactive shells only).
    .It Ic vi-esccomplete
    In vi command-line editing, do command and file name completion when escape
    (^[) is entered in command mode.
    .It Ic vi-show8
    Prefix characters with the eighth bit set with
    .Sq M- .
    If this option is not set, characters in the range 128\-160 are printed as is,
    which may cause problems.
    .It Ic vi-tabcomplete
    In vi command-line editing, do command and file name completion when tab (^I)
    is entered in insert mode.
    This is the default.
    .It Ic viraw
    No effect.
    In the original Korn shell, unless
    .Ic viraw
    was set, the vi command-line mode would let the
    .Xr tty 4
    driver do the work until ESC (^[) was entered.
    .Nm ksh
    is always in viraw mode.
    .El
    .Pp
    These options can also be used upon invocation of the shell.
    The current set of
    options (with single letter names) can be found in the parameter
    .Sq $- .
    .Ic set Fl o
    with no option name will list all the options and whether each is on or off;
    .Ic set +o
    will print the current shell options in a form that
    can be reinput to the shell to achieve the same option settings.
    .Pp
    Remaining arguments, if any, are positional parameters and are assigned, in
    order, to the positional parameters (i.e. $1, $2, etc.).
    If options end with
    .Ql --
    and there are no remaining arguments, all positional parameters are cleared.
    If no options or arguments are given, the values of all names are printed.
    For unknown historical reasons, a lone
    .Ql -
    option is treated specially \- it clears both the
    .Fl x
    and
    .Fl v
    options.
    .Pp
    .It Ic shift Op Ar number
    The positional parameters
    .Ar number Ns +1 ,
    .Ar number Ns +2 ,
    etc. are renamed to
    .Sq 1 ,
    .Sq 2 ,
    etc.
    .Ar number
    defaults to 1.
    .Pp
    .It Ic suspend
    Stops the shell as if it had received the suspend character from
    the terminal.
    It is not possible to suspend a login shell unless the parent process
    is a member of the same terminal session but is a member of a different
    process group.
    As a general rule, if the shell was started by another shell or via
    .Xr su 1 ,
    it can be suspended.
    .Pp
    .It Ic test Ar expression
    .It Ic \&[ Ar expression Ic \&]
    .Ic test
    evaluates the
    .Ar expression
    and returns zero status if true, 1 if false, or greater than 1 if there
    was an error.
    It is normally used as the condition command of
    .Ic if
    and
    .Ic while
    statements.
    Symbolic links are followed for all
    .Ar file
    expressions except
    .Fl h
    and
    .Fl L .
    .Pp
    The following basic expressions are available:
    .Bl -tag -width 17n
    .It Fl a Ar file
    .Ar file
    exists.
    .It Fl b Ar file
    .Ar file
    is a block special device.
    .It Fl c Ar file
    .Ar file
    is a character special device.
    .It Fl d Ar file
    .Ar file
    is a directory.
    .It Fl e Ar file
    .Ar file
    exists.
    .It Fl f Ar file
    .Ar file
    is a regular file.
    .It Fl G Ar file
    .Ar file Ns 's
    group is the shell's effective group ID.
    .It Fl g Ar file
    .Ar file Ns 's
    mode has the setgid bit set.
    .It Fl h Ar file
    .Ar file
    is a symbolic link.
    .It Fl k Ar file
    .Ar file Ns 's
    mode has the
    .Xr sticky 8
    bit set.
    .It Fl L Ar file
    .Ar file
    is a symbolic link.
    .It Fl O Ar file
    .Ar file Ns 's
    owner is the shell's effective user ID.
    .It Fl o Ar option
    Shell
    .Ar option
    is set (see the
    .Ic set
    command above for a list of options).
    As a non-standard extension, if the option starts with a
    .Ql \&! ,
    the test is negated; the test always fails if
    .Ar option
    doesn't exist (so [ -o foo -o -o !foo ] returns true if and only if option
    .Ar foo
    exists).
    .It Fl p Ar file
    .Ar file
    is a named pipe.
    .It Fl r Ar file
    .Ar file
    exists and is readable.
    .It Fl S Ar file
    .Ar file
    is a
    .Xr unix 4 Ns -domain
    socket.
    .It Fl s Ar file
    .Ar file
    is not empty.
    .It Fl t Op Ar fd
    File descriptor
    .Ar fd
    is a
    .Xr tty 4
    device.
    If the
    .Ic posix
    option is not set,
    .Ar fd
    may be left out, in which case it is taken to be 1 (the behaviour differs due
    to the special POSIX rules described above).
    .It Fl u Ar file
    .Ar file Ns 's
    mode has the setuid bit set.
    .It Fl w Ar file
    .Ar file
    exists and is writable.
    .It Fl x Ar file
    .Ar file
    exists and is executable.
    .It Ar file1 Fl nt Ar file2
    .Ar file1
    is newer than
    .Ar file2
    or
    .Ar file1
    exists and
    .Ar file2
    does not.
    .It Ar file1 Fl ot Ar file2
    .Ar file1
    is older than
    .Ar file2
    or
    .Ar file2
    exists and
    .Ar file1
    does not.
    .It Ar file1 Fl ef Ar file2
    .Ar file1
    is the same file as
    .Ar file2 .
    .It Ar string
    .Ar string
    has non-zero length.
    .It Fl n Ar string
    .Ar string
    is not empty.
    .It Fl z Ar string
    .Ar string
    is empty.
    .It Ar string No = Ar string
    Strings are equal.
    .It Ar string No == Ar string
    Strings are equal.
    .It Ar string No != Ar string
    Strings are not equal.
    .It Ar string No > Ar string
    Strings compare greater than based on the ASCII value of their characters.
    .It Ar string No < Ar string
    Strings compare less than based on the ASCII value of their characters.
    .It Ar number Fl eq Ar number
    Numbers compare equal.
    .It Ar number Fl ne Ar number
    Numbers compare not equal.
    .It Ar number Fl ge Ar number
    Numbers compare greater than or equal.
    .It Ar number Fl gt Ar number
    Numbers compare greater than.
    .It Ar number Fl le Ar number
    Numbers compare less than or equal.
    .It Ar number Fl \&lt Ar number
    Numbers compare less than.
    .El
    .Pp
    The above basic expressions, in which unary operators have precedence over
    binary operators, may be combined with the following operators (listed in
    increasing order of precedence):
    .Bd -literal -offset indent
    expr -o expr		Logical OR.
    expr -a expr		Logical AND.
    ! expr			Logical NOT.
    ( expr )		Grouping.
    .Ed
    .Pp
    On operating systems not supporting
    .Pa /dev/fd/ Ns Ar n
    devices (where
    .Ar n
    is a file descriptor number), the
    .Ic test
    command will attempt to fake it for all tests that operate on files (except the
    .Fl e
    test).
    For example,
    [ -w /dev/fd/2 ] tests if file descriptor 2 is writable.
    .Pp
    Note that some special rules are applied (courtesy of POSIX)
    if the number of
    arguments to
    .Ic test
    or
    .Ic \&[ ... \&]
    is less than five: if leading
    .Ql \&!
    arguments can be stripped such that only one argument remains then a string
    length test is performed (again, even if the argument is a unary operator); if
    leading
    .Ql \&!
    arguments can be stripped such that three arguments remain and the second
    argument is a binary operator, then the binary operation is performed (even
    if the first argument is a unary operator, including an unstripped
    .Ql \&! ) .
    .Pp
    .Sy Note :
    A common mistake is to use
    .Dq if \&[ $foo = bar \&]
    which fails if parameter
    .Dq foo
    is
    .Dv NULL
    or unset, if it has embedded spaces (i.e.\&
    .Ev IFS
    characters), or if it is a unary operator like
    .Sq \&!
    or
    .Sq Fl n .
    Use tests like
    .Dq if \&[ \&"X$foo\&" = Xbar \&]
    instead.
    .Pp
    .It Xo
    .Ic time
    .Op Fl p
    .Op Ar pipeline
    .Xc
    If a
    .Ar pipeline
    is given, the times used to execute the pipeline are reported.
    If no pipeline
    is given, then the user and system time used by the shell itself, and all the
    commands it has run since it was started, are reported.
    The times reported are the real time (elapsed time from start to finish),
    the user CPU time (time spent running in user mode), and the system CPU time
    (time spent running in kernel mode).
    Times are reported to standard error; the format of the output is:
    .Pp
    .Dl "0m0.00s real     0m0.00s user     0m0.00s system"
    .Pp
    If the
    .Fl p
    option is given the output is slightly longer:
    .Bd -literal -offset indent
    real     0.00
    user     0.00
    sys      0.00
    .Ed
    .Pp
    It is an error to specify the
    .Fl p
    option unless
    .Ar pipeline
    is a simple command.
    .Pp
    Simple redirections of standard error do not affect the output of the
    .Ic time
    command:
    .Pp
    .Dl $ time sleep 1 2> afile
    .Dl $ { time sleep 1; } 2> afile
    .Pp
    Times for the first command do not go to
    .Dq afile ,
    but those of the second command do.
    .Pp
    .It Ic times
    Print the accumulated user and system times used both by the shell
    and by processes that the shell started which have exited.
    The format of the output is:
    .Bd -literal -offset indent
    0m0.00s 0m0.00s
    0m0.00s 0m0.00s
    .Ed
    .Pp
    .It Ic trap Op Ar handler signal ...
    Sets a trap handler that is to be executed when any of the specified signals are
    received.
    .Ar handler
    is either a
    .Dv NULL
    string, indicating the signals are to be ignored, a minus sign
    .Pq Sq - ,
    indicating that the default action is to be taken for the signals (see
    .Xr signal 3 ) ,
    or a string containing shell commands to be evaluated and executed at the first
    opportunity (i.e. when the current command completes, or before printing the
    next
    .Ev PS1
    prompt) after receipt of one of the signals.
    .Ar signal
    is the name of a signal (e.g.\&
    .Dv PIPE
    or
    .Dv ALRM )
    or the number of the signal (see the
    .Ic kill -l
    command above).
    .Pp
    There are two special signals:
    .Dv EXIT
    (also known as 0), which is executed when the shell is about to exit, and
    .Dv ERR ,
    which is executed after an error occurs (an error is something that would cause
    the shell to exit if the
    .Fl e
    or
    .Ic errexit
    option were set \- see the
    .Ic set
    command above).
    .Dv EXIT
    handlers are executed in the environment of the last executed command.
    Note
    that for non-interactive shells, the trap handler cannot be changed for signals
    that were ignored when the shell started.
    .Pp
    With no arguments,
    .Ic trap
    lists, as a series of
    .Ic trap
    commands, the current state of the traps that have been set since the shell
    started.
    Note that the output of
    .Ic trap
    cannot be usefully piped to another process (an artifact of the fact that
    traps are cleared when subprocesses are created).
    .Pp
    The original Korn shell's
    .Dv DEBUG
    trap and the handling of
    .Dv ERR
    and
    .Dv EXIT
    traps in functions are not yet implemented.
    .Pp
    .It Ic true
    A command that exits with a zero value.
    .Pp
    .It Ic type
    Short form of
    .Ic command Fl V
    (see above).
    .Pp
    .It Xo
    .Ic typeset
    .Oo
    .Op Ic +-lprtUux
    .Op Fl L Ns Op Ar n
    .Op Fl R Ns Op Ar n
    .Op Fl Z Ns Op Ar n
    .Op Fl i Ns Op Ar n
    .No \&| Fl f Op Fl tux
    .Oc
    .Oo
    .Ar name
    .Op Ns = Ns Ar value
    .Ar ...
    .Oc
    .Xc
    Display or set parameter attributes.
    With no
    .Ar name
    arguments, parameter attributes are displayed; if no options are used, the
    current attributes of all parameters are printed as
    .Ic typeset
    commands; if an option is given (or
    .Ql -
    with no option letter), all parameters and their values with the specified
    attributes are printed; if options are introduced with
    .Ql + ,
    parameter values are not printed.
    .Pp
    If
    .Ar name
    arguments are given, the attributes of the named parameters are set
    .Pq Ic -
    or cleared
    .Pq Ic + .
    Values for parameters may optionally be specified.
    If
    .Ic typeset
    is used inside a function, any newly created parameters are local to the
    function.
    .Pp
    When
    .Fl f
    is used,
    .Ic typeset
    operates on the attributes of functions.
    As with parameters, if no
    .Ar name
    arguments are given,
    functions are listed with their values (i.e. definitions) unless
    options are introduced with
    .Ql + ,
    in which case only the function names are reported.
    .Bl -tag -width Ds
    .It Fl f
    Function mode.
    Display or set functions and their attributes, instead of parameters.
    .It Fl i Ns Op Ar n
    Integer attribute.
    .Ar n
    specifies the base to use when displaying the integer (if not specified, the
    base given in the first assignment is used).
    Parameters with this attribute may
    be assigned values containing arithmetic expressions.
    .It Fl L Ns Op Ar n
    Left justify attribute.
    .Ar n
    specifies the field width.
    If
    .Ar n
    is not specified, the current width of a parameter (or the width of its first
    assigned value) is used.
    Leading whitespace (and zeros, if used with the
    .Fl Z
    option) is stripped.
    If necessary, values are either truncated or space padded
    to fit the field width.
    .It Fl l
    Lower case attribute.
    All upper case characters in values are converted to lower case.
    (In the original Korn shell, this parameter meant
    .Dq long integer
    when used with the
    .Fl i
    option.)
    .It Fl p
    Print complete
    .Ic typeset
    commands that can be used to re-create the attributes (but not the values) of
    parameters.
    This is the default action (option exists for ksh93 compatibility).
    .It Fl R Ns Op Ar n
    Right justify attribute.
    .Ar n
    specifies the field width.
    If
    .Ar n
    is not specified, the current width of a parameter (or the width of its first
    assigned value) is used.
    Trailing whitespace is stripped.
    If necessary, values are either stripped of leading characters or space
    padded to make them fit the field width.
    .It Fl r
    Read-only attribute.
    Parameters with this attribute may not be assigned to or unset.
    Once this attribute is set, it cannot be turned off.
    .It Fl t
    Tag attribute.
    Has no meaning to the shell; provided for application use.
    .Pp
    For functions,
    .Fl t
    is the trace attribute.
    When functions with the trace attribute are executed, the
    .Ic xtrace
    .Pq Fl x
    shell option is temporarily turned on.
    .It Fl U
    Unsigned integer attribute.
    Integers are printed as unsigned values (only
    useful when combined with the
    .Fl i
    option).
    This option is not in the original Korn shell.
    .It Fl u
    Upper case attribute.
    All lower case characters in values are converted to upper case.
    (In the original Korn shell, this parameter meant
    .Dq unsigned integer
    when used with the
    .Fl i
    option, which meant upper case letters would never be used for bases greater
    than 10.
    See the
    .Fl U
    option.)
    .Pp
    For functions,
    .Fl u
    is the undefined attribute.
    See
    .Sx Functions
    above for the implications of this.
    .It Fl x
    Export attribute.
    Parameters (or functions) are placed in the environment of
    any executed commands.
    Exported functions are not yet implemented.
    .It Fl Z Ns Op Ar n
    Zero fill attribute.
    If not combined with
    .Fl L ,
    this is the same as
    .Fl R ,
    except zero padding is used instead of space padding.
    .El
    .Pp
    .It Xo
    .Ic ulimit
    .Op Fl acdfHlmnpSst Op Ar value
    .Ar ...
    .Xc
    Display or set process limits.
    If no options are used, the file size limit
    .Pq Fl f
    is assumed.
    .Ar value ,
    if specified, may be either an arithmetic expression starting with a
    number or the word
    .Dq unlimited .
    The limits affect the shell and any processes created by the shell after a
    limit is imposed; limits may not be increased once they are set.
    .Bl -tag -width 5n
    .It Fl a
    Display all limits; unless
    .Fl H
    is used, soft limits are displayed.
    .It Fl c Ar n
    Impose a size limit of
    .Ar n
    blocks on the size of core dumps.
    .It Fl d Ar n
    Impose a size limit of
    .Ar n
    kilobytes on the size of the data area.
    .It Fl f Ar n
    Impose a size limit of
    .Ar n
    blocks on files written by the shell and its child processes (files of any
    size may be read).
    .It Fl H
    Set the hard limit only (the default is to set both hard and soft limits).
    .It Fl l Ar n
    Impose a limit of
    .Ar n
    kilobytes on the amount of locked (wired) physical memory.
    .It Fl m Ar n
    Impose a limit of
    .Ar n
    kilobytes on the amount of physical memory used.
    This limit is not enforced.
    .It Fl n Ar n
    Impose a limit of
    .Ar n
    file descriptors that can be open at once.
    .It Fl p Ar n
    Impose a limit of
    .Ar n
    processes that can be run by the user at any one time.
    .It Fl S
    Set the soft limit only (the default is to set both hard and soft limits).
    .It Fl s Ar n
    Impose a size limit of
    .Ar n
    kilobytes on the size of the stack area.
    .It Fl t Ar n
    Impose a time limit of
    .Ar n
    CPU seconds spent in user mode to be used by each process.
    .\".It Fl v Ar n
    .\"Impose a limit of
    .\"Ar n
    .\"kilobytes on the amount of virtual memory used.
    .El
    .Pp
    As far as
    .Ic ulimit
    is concerned, a block is 512 bytes.
    .Pp
    .It Xo
    .Ic umask
    .Op Fl S
    .Op Ar mask
    .Xc
    Display or set the file permission creation mask, or umask (see
    .Xr umask 2 ) .
    If the
    .Fl S
    option is used, the mask displayed or set is symbolic; otherwise, it is an
    octal number.
    .Pp
    Symbolic masks are like those used by
    .Xr chmod 1 .
    When used, they describe what permissions may be made available (as opposed to
    octal masks in which a set bit means the corresponding bit is to be cleared).
    For example,
    .Dq ug=rwx,o=
    sets the mask so files will not be readable, writable, or executable by
    .Dq others ,
    and is equivalent (on most systems) to the octal mask
    .Dq 007 .
    .Pp
    .It Xo
    .Ic unalias
    .Op Fl adt
    .Op Ar name ...
    .Xc
    The aliases for the given names are removed.
    If the
    .Fl a
    option is used, all aliases are removed.
    If the
    .Fl t
    or
    .Fl d
    options are used, the indicated operations are carried out on tracked or
    directory aliases, respectively.
    .Pp
    .It Xo
    .Ic unset
    .Op Fl fv
    .Ar parameter ...
    .Xc
    Unset the named parameters
    .Po
    .Fl v ,
    the default
    .Pc
    or functions
    .Pq Fl f .
    The exit status is non-zero if any of the parameters have the read-only
    attribute set, zero otherwise.
    .Pp
    .It Ic wait Op Ar job ...
    Wait for the specified job(s) to finish.
    The exit status of
    .Ic wait
    is that of the last specified job; if the last job is killed by a signal, the
    exit status is 128 + the number of the signal (see
    .Ic kill -l Ar exit-status
    above); if the last specified job can't be found (because it never existed, or
    had already finished), the exit status of
    .Ic wait
    is 127.
    See
    .Sx Job control
    below for the format of
    .Ar job .
    .Ic wait
    will return if a signal for which a trap has been set is received, or if a
    .Dv SIGHUP ,
    .Dv SIGINT ,
    or
    .Dv SIGQUIT
    signal is received.
    .Pp
    If no jobs are specified,
    .Ic wait
    waits for all currently running jobs (if any) to finish and exits with a zero
    status.
    If job monitoring is enabled, the completion status of jobs is printed
    (this is not the case when jobs are explicitly specified).
    .Pp
    .It Xo
    .Ic whence
    .Op Fl pv
    .Op Ar name ...
    .Xc
    For each
    .Ar name ,
    the type of command is listed (reserved word, built-in, alias,
    function, tracked alias, or executable).
    If the
    .Fl p
    option is used, a path search is performed even if
    .Ar name
    is a reserved word, alias, etc.
    Without the
    .Fl v
    option,
    .Ic whence
    is similar to
    .Ic command Fl v
    except that
    .Ic whence
    won't print aliases as alias commands.
    With the
    .Fl v
    option,
    .Ic whence
    is the same as
    .Ic command Fl V .
    Note that for
    .Ic whence ,
    the
    .Fl p
    option does not affect the search path used, as it does for
    .Ic command .
    If the type of one or more of the names could not be determined, the exit
    status is non-zero.
    .El
    .Ss Job control
    Job control refers to the shell's ability to monitor and control jobs, which
    are processes or groups of processes created for commands or pipelines.
    At a minimum, the shell keeps track of the status of the background (i.e.\&
    asynchronous) jobs that currently exist; this information can be displayed
    using the
    .Ic jobs
    commands.
    If job control is fully enabled (using
    .Ic set -m
    or
    .Ic set -o monitor ) ,
    as it is for interactive shells, the processes of a job are placed in their
    own process group.
    Foreground jobs can be stopped by typing the suspend
    character from the terminal (normally ^Z), jobs can be restarted in either the
    foreground or background using the
    .Ic fg
    and
    .Ic bg
    commands, and the state of the terminal is saved or restored when a foreground
    job is stopped or restarted, respectively.
    .Pp
    Note that only commands that create processes (e.g. asynchronous commands,
    subshell commands, and non-built-in, non-function commands) can be stopped;
    commands like
    .Ic read
    cannot be.
    .Pp
    When a job is created, it is assigned a job number.
    For interactive shells, this number is printed inside
    .Dq [..] ,
    followed by the process IDs of the processes in the job when an asynchronous
    command is run.
    A job may be referred to in the
    .Ic bg ,
    .Ic fg ,
    .Ic jobs ,
    .Ic kill ,
    and
    .Ic wait
    commands either by the process ID of the last process in the command pipeline
    (as stored in the
    .Ic $!\&
    parameter) or by prefixing the job number with a percent
    sign
    .Pq Sq % .
    Other percent sequences can also be used to refer to jobs:
    .Bl -tag -width "%+ | %% | %XX"
    .It %+ | %% | %
    The most recently stopped job or, if there are no stopped jobs, the oldest
    running job.
    .It %-
    The job that would be the
    .Ic %+
    job if the latter did not exist.
    .It % Ns Ar n
    The job with job number
    .Ar n .
    .It %? Ns Ar string
    The job with its command containing the string
    .Ar string
    (an error occurs if multiple jobs are matched).
    .It % Ns Ar string
    The job with its command starting with the string
    .Ar string
    (an error occurs if multiple jobs are matched).
    .El
    .Pp
    When a job changes state (e.g. a background job finishes or foreground job is
    stopped), the shell prints the following status information:
    .Pp
    .D1 [ Ns Ar number ] Ar flag status command
    .Pp
    where...
    .Bl -tag -width "command"
    .It Ar number
    is the job number of the job;
    .It Ar flag
    is the
    .Ql +
    or
    .Ql -
    character if the job is the
    .Ic %+
    or
    .Ic %-
    job, respectively, or space if it is neither;
    .It Ar status
    indicates the current state of the job and can be:
    .Bl -tag -width "RunningXX"
    .It Done Op Ar number
    The job exited.
    .Ar number
    is the exit status of the job, which is omitted if the status is zero.
    .It Running
    The job has neither stopped nor exited (note that running does not necessarily
    mean consuming CPU time \-
    the process could be blocked waiting for some event).
    .It Stopped Op Ar signal
    The job was stopped by the indicated
    .Ar signal
    (if no signal is given, the job was stopped by
    .Dv SIGTSTP ) .
    .It Ar signal-description Op Dq core dumped
    The job was killed by a signal (e.g. memory fault, hangup); use
    .Ic kill -l
    for a list of signal descriptions.
    The
    .Dq core dumped
    message indicates the process created a core file.
    .El
    .It Ar command
    is the command that created the process.
    If there are multiple processes in
    the job, each process will have a line showing its
    .Ar command
    and possibly its
    .Ar status ,
    if it is different from the status of the previous process.
    .El
    .Pp
    When an attempt is made to exit the shell while there are jobs in the stopped
    state, the shell warns the user that there are stopped jobs and does not exit.
    If another attempt is immediately made to exit the shell, the stopped jobs are
    sent a
    .Dv SIGHUP
    signal and the shell exits.
    Similarly, if the
    .Ic nohup
    option is not set and there are running jobs when an attempt is made to exit
    a login shell, the shell warns the user and does not exit.
    If another attempt
    is immediately made to exit the shell, the running jobs are sent a
    .Dv SIGHUP
    signal and the shell exits.
    .Ss Interactive input line editing
    The shell supports three modes of reading command lines from a
    .Xr tty 4
    in an interactive session, controlled by the
    .Ic emacs ,
    .Ic gmacs ,
    and
    .Ic vi
    options (at most one of these can be set at once).
    The default is
    .Ic emacs .
    Editing modes can be set explicitly using the
    .Ic set
    built-in, or implicitly via the
    .Ev EDITOR
    and
    .Ev VISUAL
    environment variables.
    If none of these options are enabled,
    the shell simply reads lines using the normal
    .Xr tty 4
    driver.
    If the
    .Ic emacs
    or
    .Ic gmacs
    option is set, the shell allows emacs-like editing of the command; similarly,
    if the
    .Ic vi
    option is set, the shell allows vi-like editing of the command.
    These modes are described in detail in the following sections.
    .Pp
    In these editing modes, if a line is longer than the screen width (see the
    .Ev COLUMNS
    parameter),
    a
    .Ql > ,
    .Ql + ,
    or
    .Ql <
    character is displayed in the last column indicating that there are more
    characters after, before and after, or before the current position,
    respectively.
    The line is scrolled horizontally as necessary.
    .Ss Emacs editing mode
    When the
    .Ic emacs
    option is set, interactive input line editing is enabled.
    Warning: This mode is
    slightly different from the emacs mode in the original Korn shell.
    In this mode, various editing commands
    (typically bound to one or more control characters) cause immediate actions
    without waiting for a newline.
    Several editing commands are bound to particular
    control characters when the shell is invoked; these bindings can be changed
    using the
    .Ic bind
    command.
    .Pp
    The following is a list of available editing commands.
    Each description starts with the name of the command,
    suffixed with a colon;
    an
    .Op Ar n
    (if the command can be prefixed with a count); and any keys the command is
    bound to by default, written using caret notation
    e.g. the ASCII ESC character is written as ^[.
    ^[A-Z] sequences are not case sensitive.
    A count prefix for a command is entered using the sequence
    .Pf ^[ Ar n ,
    where
    .Ar n
    is a sequence of 1 or more digits.
    Unless otherwise specified, if a count is
    omitted, it defaults to 1.
    .Pp
    Note that editing command names are used only with the
    .Ic bind
    command.
    Furthermore, many editing commands are useful only on terminals with
    a visible cursor.
    The default bindings were chosen to resemble corresponding
    Emacs key bindings.
    The user's
    .Xr tty 4
    characters (e.g.\&
    .Dv ERASE )
    are bound to
    reasonable substitutes and override the default bindings.
    .Bl -tag -width Ds
    .It abort: ^C, ^G
    Useful as a response to a request for a
    .Ic search-history
    pattern in order to abort the search.
    .It auto-insert: Op Ar n
    Simply causes the character to appear as literal input.
    Most ordinary characters are bound to this.
    .It Xo backward-char:
    .Op Ar n
    .No ^B , ^X^D
    .Xc
    Moves the cursor backward
    .Ar n
    characters.
    .It Xo backward-word:
    .Op Ar n
    .No ^[b
    .Xc
    Moves the cursor backward to the beginning of the word; words consist of
    alphanumerics, underscore
    .Pq Sq _ ,
    and dollar sign
    .Pq Sq $
    characters.
    .It beginning-of-history: ^[<
    Moves to the beginning of the history.
    .It beginning-of-line: ^A
    Moves the cursor to the beginning of the edited input line.
    .It Xo capitalize-word:
    .Op Ar n
    .No ^[C , ^[c
    .Xc
    Uppercase the first character in the next
    .Ar n
    words, leaving the cursor past the end of the last word.
    .It clear-screen: ^L
    Clears the screen if the
    .Ev TERM
    parameter is set and the terminal supports clearing the screen, then
    reprints the prompt string and the current input line.
    .It comment: ^[#
    If the current line does not begin with a comment character, one is added at
    the beginning of the line and the line is entered (as if return had been
    pressed); otherwise, the existing comment characters are removed and the cursor
    is placed at the beginning of the line.
    .It complete: ^[^[
    Automatically completes as much as is unique of the command name or the file
    name containing the cursor.
    If the entire remaining command or file name is
    unique, a space is printed after its completion, unless it is a directory name
    in which case
    .Ql /
    is appended.
    If there is no command or file name with the current partial word
    as its prefix, a bell character is output (usually causing a beep to be
    sounded).
    .Pp
    Custom completions may be configured by creating an array named
    .Ql complete_command ,
    optionally suffixed with an argument number to complete only for a single
    argument.
    So defining an array named
    .Ql complete_kill
    provides possible completions for any argument to the
    .Xr kill 1
    command, but
    .Ql complete_kill_1
    only completes the first argument.
    For example, the following command makes
    .Nm
    offer a selection of signal names for the first argument to
    .Xr kill 1 :
    .Pp
    .Dl set -A complete_kill_1 -- -9 -HUP -INFO -KILL -TERM
    .It complete-command: ^X^[
    Automatically completes as much as is unique of the command name having the
    partial word up to the cursor as its prefix, as in the
    .Ic complete
    command above.
    .It complete-file: ^[^X
    Automatically completes as much as is unique of the file name having the
    partial word up to the cursor as its prefix, as in the
    .Ic complete
    command described above.
    .It complete-list: ^I, ^[=
    Complete as much as is possible of the current word,
    and list the possible completions for it.
    If only one completion is possible,
    match as in the
    .Ic complete
    command above.
    .It Xo delete-char-backward:
    .Op Ar n
    .No ERASE , ^? , ^H
    .Xc
    Deletes
    .Ar n
    characters before the cursor.
    .It Xo delete-char-forward:
    .Op Ar n
    .No Delete
    .Xc
    Deletes
    .Ar n
    characters after the cursor.
    .It Xo delete-word-backward:
    .Op Ar n
    .No WERASE , ^[ERASE , ^W, ^[^? , ^[^H , ^[h
    .Xc
    Deletes
    .Ar n
    words before the cursor.
    .It Xo delete-word-forward:
    .Op Ar n
    .No ^[d
    .Xc
    Deletes
    .Ar n
    words after the cursor.
    .It Xo down-history:
    .Op Ar n
    .No ^N , ^XB
    .Xc
    Scrolls the history buffer forward
    .Ar n
    lines (later).
    Each input line originally starts just after the last entry
    in the history buffer, so
    .Ic down-history
    is not useful until either
    .Ic search-history
    or
    .Ic up-history
    has been performed.
    .It Xo downcase-word:
    .Op Ar n
    .No ^[L , ^[l
    .Xc
    Lowercases the next
    .Ar n
    words.
    .It end-of-history: ^[>
    Moves to the end of the history.
    .It end-of-line: ^E
    Moves the cursor to the end of the input line.
    .It eot: ^_
    Acts as an end-of-file; this is useful because edit-mode input disables
    normal terminal input canonicalization.
    .It Xo eot-or-delete:
    .Op Ar n
    .No ^D
    .Xc
    Acts as
    .Ic eot
    if alone on a line; otherwise acts as
    .Ic delete-char-forward .
    .It error:
    Error (ring the bell).
    .It exchange-point-and-mark: ^X^X
    Places the cursor where the mark is and sets the mark to where the cursor was.
    .It expand-file: ^[*
    Appends a
    .Ql *
    to the current word and replaces the word with the result of performing file
    globbing on the word.
    If no files match the pattern, the bell is rung.
    .It Xo forward-char:
    .Op Ar n
    .No ^F , ^XC
    .Xc
    Moves the cursor forward
    .Ar n
    characters.
    .It Xo forward-word:
    .Op Ar n
    .No ^[f
    .Xc
    Moves the cursor forward to the end of the
    .Ar n Ns th
    word.
    .It Xo goto-history:
    .Op Ar n
    .No ^[g
    .Xc
    Goes to history number
    .Ar n .
    .It kill-line: KILL
    Deletes the entire input line.
    .It Xo kill-to-eol:
    .Op Ar n
    .No ^K
    .Xc
    Deletes the input from the cursor to the end of the line if
    .Ar n
    is not specified; otherwise deletes characters between the cursor and column
    .Ar n .
    .It list: ^[?
    Prints a sorted, columnated list of command names or file names (if any) that
    can complete the partial word containing the cursor.
    Directory names have
    .Ql /
    appended to them.
    .It list-command: ^X?
    Prints a sorted, columnated list of command names (if any) that can complete
    the partial word containing the cursor.
    .It list-file: ^X^Y
    Prints a sorted, columnated list of file names (if any) that can complete the
    partial word containing the cursor.
    File type indicators are appended as described under
    .Ic list
    above.
    .It newline: ^J , ^M
    Causes the current input line to be processed by the shell.
    The current cursor position may be anywhere on the line.
    .It newline-and-next: ^O
    Causes the current input line to be processed by the shell, and the next line
    from history becomes the current line.
    This is only useful after an
    .Ic up-history
    or
    .Ic search-history .
    .It no-op: QUIT
    This does nothing.
    .It Xo prev-hist-word:
    .Op Ar n
    .No ^[. , ^[_
    .Xc
    The last
    .Pq Ar n Ns th
    word of the previous command is inserted at the cursor.
    .It quote: ^^
    The following character is taken literally rather than as an editing command.
    .It redraw:
    Reprints the prompt string and the current input line.
    .It Xo search-character-backward:
    .Op Ar n
    .No ^[^]
    .Xc
    Search backward in the current line for the
    .Ar n Ns th
    occurrence of the next character typed.
    .It Xo search-character-forward:
    .Op Ar n
    .No ^]
    .Xc
    Search forward in the current line for the
    .Ar n Ns th
    occurrence of the next character typed.
    .It search-history: ^R
    Enter incremental search mode.
    The internal history list is searched
    backwards for commands matching the input.
    An initial
    .Ql ^
    in the search string anchors the search.
    The abort key will leave search mode.
    Other commands will be executed after leaving search mode.
    Successive
    .Ic search-history
    commands continue searching backward to the next previous occurrence of the
    pattern.
    The history buffer retains only a finite number of lines; the oldest
    are discarded as necessary.
    .It set-mark-command: ^[ Ns Aq space
    Set the mark at the cursor position.
    .It transpose-chars: ^T
    If at the end of line, or if the
    .Ic gmacs
    option is set, this exchanges the two previous characters; otherwise, it
    exchanges the previous and current characters and moves the cursor one
    character to the right.
    .It Xo up-history:
    .Op Ar n
    .No ^P , ^XA
    .Xc
    Scrolls the history buffer backward
    .Ar n
    lines (earlier).
    .It Xo upcase-word:
    .Op Ar n
    .No ^[U , ^[u
    .Xc
    Uppercase the next
    .Ar n
    words.
    .It quote: ^V
    Synonym for ^^.
    .It yank: ^Y
    Inserts the most recently killed text string at the current cursor position.
    .It yank-pop: ^[y
    Immediately after a
    .Ic yank ,
    replaces the inserted text string with the next previously killed text string.
    .El
    .Pp
    The following editing commands lack default bindings but can be used with the
    .Ic bind
    command:
    .Bl -tag -width Ds
    .It kill-region
    Deletes the input between the cursor and the mark.
    .El
    .Ss Vi editing mode
    The vi command-line editor in
    .Nm
    has basically the same commands as the
    .Xr vi 1
    editor with the following exceptions:
    .Bl -bullet
    .It
    You start out in insert mode.
    .It
    There are file name and command completion commands:
    =, \e, *, ^X, ^E, ^F, and, optionally,
    .Aq tab
    and
    .Aq esc .
    .It
    The
    .Ic _
    command is different (in
    .Nm
    it is the last argument command; in
    .Xr vi 1
    it goes to the start of the current line).
    .It
    The
    .Ic /
    and
    .Ic G
    commands move in the opposite direction to the
    .Ic j
    command.
    .It
    Commands which don't make sense in a single line editor are not available
    (e.g. screen movement commands and
    .Xr ex 1 Ns -style
    colon
    .Pq Ic \&:
    commands).
    .El
    .Pp
    Note that the ^X stands for control-X; also
    .Aq esc ,
    .Aq space ,
    and
    .Aq tab
    are used for escape, space, and tab, respectively (no kidding).
    .Pp
    Like
    .Xr vi 1 ,
    there are two modes:
    .Dq insert
    mode and
    .Dq command
    mode.
    In insert mode, most characters are simply put in the buffer at the
    current cursor position as they are typed; however, some characters are
    treated specially.
    In particular, the following characters are taken from current
    .Xr tty 4
    settings
    (see
    .Xr stty 1 )
    and have their usual meaning (normal values are in parentheses): kill (^U),
    erase (^?), werase (^W), eof (^D), intr (^C), and quit (^\e).
    In addition to
    the above, the following characters are also treated specially in insert mode:
    .Bl -tag -width 10n
    .It ^E
    Command and file name enumeration (see below).
    .It ^F
    Command and file name completion (see below).
    If used twice in a row, the
    list of possible completions is displayed; if used a third time, the completion
    is undone.
    .It ^H
    Erases previous character.
    .It ^J | ^M
    End of line.
    The current line is read, parsed, and executed by the shell.
    .It ^V
    Literal next.
    The next character typed is not treated specially (can be used
    to insert the characters being described here).
    .It ^X
    Command and file name expansion (see below).
    .It Aq esc
    Puts the editor in command mode (see below).
    .It Aq tab
    Optional file name and command completion (see
    .Ic ^F
    above), enabled with
    .Ic set -o vi-tabcomplete .
    .El
    .Pp
    In command mode, each character is interpreted as a command.
    Characters that
    don't correspond to commands, are illegal combinations of commands, or are
    commands that can't be carried out, all cause beeps.
    In the following command descriptions, an
    .Op Ar n
    indicates the command may be prefixed by a number (e.g.\&
    .Ic 10l
    moves right 10 characters); if no number prefix is used,
    .Ar n
    is assumed to be 1 unless otherwise specified.
    The term
    .Dq current position
    refers to the position between the cursor and the character preceding the
    cursor.
    A
    .Dq word
    is a sequence of letters, digits, and underscore characters or a sequence of
    non-letter, non-digit, non-underscore, and non-whitespace characters (e.g.\&
    .Dq ab2*&^
    contains two words) and a
    .Dq big-word
    is a sequence of non-whitespace characters.
    .Pp
    Special
    .Nm
    vi commands:
    .Pp
    The following commands are not in, or are different from, the normal vi file
    editor:
    .Bl -tag -width 10n
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns _
    .Xc
    Insert a space followed by the
    .Ar n Ns th
    big-word from the last command in the history at the current position and enter
    insert mode; if
    .Ar n
    is not specified, the last word is inserted.
    .It #
    Insert the comment character
    .Pq Sq #
    at the start of the current line and return the line to the shell (equivalent
    to
    .Ic I#^J ) .
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns g
    .Xc
    Like
    .Ic G ,
    except if
    .Ar n
    is not specified, it goes to the most recent remembered line.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns v
    .Xc
    Edit line
    .Ar n
    using the
    .Xr vi 1
    editor; if
    .Ar n
    is not specified, the current line is edited.
    The actual command executed is
    .Ic fc -e ${VISUAL:-${EDITOR:-vi}} Ar n .
    .It * and ^X
    Command or file name expansion is applied to the current big-word (with an
    appended
    .Ql *
    if the word contains no file globbing characters) \- the big-word is replaced
    with the resulting words.
    If the current big-word is the first on the line
    or follows one of the characters
    .Ql \&; ,
    .Ql | ,
    .Ql & ,
    .Ql \&( ,
    or
    .Ql \&) ,
    and does not contain a slash
    .Pq Sq / ,
    then command expansion is done; otherwise file name expansion is done.
    Command expansion will match the big-word against all aliases, functions, and
    built-in commands as well as any executable files found by searching the
    directories in the
    .Ev PATH
    parameter.
    File name expansion matches the big-word against the files in the
    current directory.
    After expansion, the cursor is placed just past the last
    word and the editor is in insert mode.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns \e ,
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns ^F ,
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns Aq tab ,
    .No and
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns Aq esc
    .Xc
    Command/file name completion.
    Replace the current big-word with the
    longest unique match obtained after performing command and file name expansion.
    .Aq tab
    is only recognized if the
    .Ic vi-tabcomplete
    option is set, while
    .Aq esc
    is only recognized if the
    .Ic vi-esccomplete
    option is set (see
    .Ic set -o ) .
    If
    .Ar n
    is specified, the
    .Ar n Ns th
    possible completion is selected (as reported by the command/file name
    enumeration command).
    .It = and ^E
    Command/file name enumeration.
    List all the commands or files that match the current big-word.
    .It @ Ns Ar c
    Macro expansion.
    Execute the commands found in the alias
    .No _ Ns Ar c .
    .El
    .Pp
    Intra-line movement commands:
    .Bl -tag -width Ds
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns h and
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns ^H
    .Xc
    Move left
    .Ar n
    characters.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns l and
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns Aq space
    .Xc
    Move right
    .Ar n
    characters.
    .It 0
    Move to column 0.
    .It ^
    Move to the first non-whitespace character.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns |
    .Xc
    Move to column
    .Ar n .
    .It $
    Move to the last character.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns b
    .Xc
    Move back
    .Ar n
    words.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns B
    .Xc
    Move back
    .Ar n
    big-words.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns e
    .Xc
    Move forward to the end of the word,
    .Ar n
    times.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns E
    .Xc
    Move forward to the end of the big-word,
    .Ar n
    times.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns w
    .Xc
    Move forward
    .Ar n
    words.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns W
    .Xc
    Move forward
    .Ar n
    big-words.
    .It %
    Find match.
    The editor looks forward for the nearest parenthesis, bracket, or
    brace and then moves the cursor to the matching parenthesis, bracket, or brace.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns f Ns Ar c
    .Xc
    Move forward to the
    .Ar n Ns th
    occurrence of the character
    .Ar c .
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns F Ns Ar c
    .Xc
    Move backward to the
    .Ar n Ns th
    occurrence of the character
    .Ar c .
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns t Ns Ar c
    .Xc
    Move forward to just before the
    .Ar n Ns th
    occurrence of the character
    .Ar c .
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns T Ns Ar c
    .Xc
    Move backward to just before the
    .Ar n Ns th
    occurrence of the character
    .Ar c .
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns \&;
    .Xc
    Repeats the last
    .Ic f , F , t ,
    or
    .Ic T
    command.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns \&,
    .Xc
    Repeats the last
    .Ic f , F , t ,
    or
    .Ic T
    command, but moves in the opposite direction.
    .El
    .Pp
    Inter-line movement commands:
    .Bl -tag -width Ds
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns j ,
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns + ,
    .No and
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns ^N
    .Xc
    Move to the
    .Ar n Ns th
    next line in the history.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns k ,
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns - ,
    .No and
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns ^P
    .Xc
    Move to the
    .Ar n Ns th
    previous line in the history.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns G
    .Xc
    Move to line
    .Ar n
    in the history; if
    .Ar n
    is not specified, the number of the first remembered line is used.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns g
    .Xc
    Like
    .Ic G ,
    except if
    .Ar n
    is not specified, it goes to the most recent remembered line.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns / Ns Ar string
    .Xc
    Search backward through the history for the
    .Ar n Ns th
    line containing
    .Ar string ;
    if
    .Ar string
    starts with
    .Ql ^ ,
    the remainder of the string must appear at the start of the history line for
    it to match.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns \&? Ns Ar string
    .Xc
    Same as
    .Ic / ,
    except it searches forward through the history.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns n
    .Xc
    Search for the
    .Ar n Ns th
    occurrence of the last search string;
    the direction of the search is the same as the last search.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns N
    .Xc
    Search for the
    .Ar n Ns th
    occurrence of the last search string;
    the direction of the search is the opposite of the last search.
    .El
    .Pp
    Edit commands
    .Bl -tag -width Ds
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns a
    .Xc
    Append text
    .Ar n
    times; goes into insert mode just after the current position.
    The append is
    only replicated if command mode is re-entered i.e.\&
    .Aq esc
    is used.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns A
    .Xc
    Same as
    .Ic a ,
    except it appends at the end of the line.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns i
    .Xc
    Insert text
    .Ar n
    times; goes into insert mode at the current position.
    The insertion is only
    replicated if command mode is re-entered i.e.\&
    .Aq esc
    is used.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns I
    .Xc
    Same as
    .Ic i ,
    except the insertion is done just before the first non-blank character.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns s
    .Xc
    Substitute the next
    .Ar n
    characters (i.e. delete the characters and go into insert mode).
    .It S
    Substitute whole line.
    All characters from the first non-blank character to the
    end of the line are deleted and insert mode is entered.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns c Ns Ar move-cmd
    .Xc
    Change from the current position to the position resulting from
    .Ar n move-cmd Ns s
    (i.e. delete the indicated region and go into insert mode); if
    .Ar move-cmd
    is
    .Ic c ,
    the line starting from the first non-blank character is changed.
    .It C
    Change from the current position to the end of the line (i.e. delete to the
    end of the line and go into insert mode).
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns x
    .Xc
    Delete the next
    .Ar n
    characters.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns X
    .Xc
    Delete the previous
    .Ar n
    characters.
    .It D
    Delete to the end of the line.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns d Ns Ar move-cmd
    .Xc
    Delete from the current position to the position resulting from
    .Ar n move-cmd Ns s ;
    .Ar move-cmd
    is a movement command (see above) or
    .Ic d ,
    in which case the current line is deleted.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns r Ns Ar c
    .Xc
    Replace the next
    .Ar n
    characters with the character
    .Ar c .
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns R
    .Xc
    Replace.
    Enter insert mode but overwrite existing characters instead of
    inserting before existing characters.
    The replacement is repeated
    .Ar n
    times.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns ~
    .Xc
    Change the case of the next
    .Ar n
    characters.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns y Ns Ar move-cmd
    .Xc
    Yank from the current position to the position resulting from
    .Ar n move-cmd Ns s
    into the yank buffer; if
    .Ar move-cmd
    is
    .Ic y ,
    the whole line is yanked.
    .It Y
    Yank from the current position to the end of the line.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns p
    .Xc
    Paste the contents of the yank buffer just after the current position,
    .Ar n
    times.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns P
    .Xc
    Same as
    .Ic p ,
    except the buffer is pasted at the current position.
    .El
    .Pp
    Miscellaneous vi commands
    .Bl -tag -width Ds
    .It ^J and ^M
    The current line is read, parsed, and executed by the shell.
    .It ^L and ^R
    Redraw the current line.
    .It Xo
    .Oo Ar n Oc Ns \&.
    .Xc
    Redo the last edit command
    .Ar n
    times.
    .It u
    Undo the last edit command.
    .It U
    Undo all changes that have been made to the current line.
    .It Ar intr No and Ar quit
    The interrupt and quit terminal characters cause the current line to be
    deleted and a new prompt to be printed.
    .El
    .Sh FILES
    .Bl -tag -width "/etc/suid_profileXX" -compact
    .It Pa ~/.profile
    User's login profile.
    .It Pa /etc/ksh.kshrc
    Global configuration file.
    Not sourced by default.
    .It Pa /etc/profile
    System login profile.
    .It Pa /etc/shells
    Shell database.
    .It Pa /etc/suid_profile
    Privileged shell profile.
    .El
    .Sh SEE ALSO
    .Xr csh 1 ,
    .Xr ed 1 ,
    .Xr mg 1 ,
    .Xr sh 1 ,
    .Xr stty 1 ,
    .Xr vi 1 ,
    .Xr shells 5 ,
    .Xr environ 7 ,
    .Xr script 7
    .Rs
    .%A Morris Bolsky
    .%A David Korn
    .%B The KornShell Command and Programming Language
    .%D First Edition 1989
    .%I Prentice Hall
    .%O ISBN 0135169720
    .\" The second edition of the above book (1995) is about ksh93,
    .\" but the OpenBSD ksh is a descendant from ksh88 via pdksh.
    .Re
    .Rs
    .%A Stephen G. Kochan
    .%A Patrick H. Wood
    .%B UNIX Shell Programming, 3rd Edition
    .%D 2003
    .%I Sams
    .%O ISBN 0672324903
    .Re
    .Rs
    .%A IEEE Inc.
    .%D 1993
    .%O ISBN 1-55937-266-9
    .%T IEEE Standard for Information Technology \- Portable Operating \
        System Interface (POSIX) \- Part 2: Shell and Utilities
    .Re
    .Sh VERSION
    This page documents version @(#)PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2 of the public
    domain Korn shell.
    .Sh AUTHORS
    .An -nosplit
    This shell is based on the public domain 7th edition Bourne shell clone by
    .An Charles Forsyth
    and parts of the BRL shell by
    .An Doug A. Gwyn ,
    .An Doug Kingston ,
    .An Ron Natalie ,
    .An Arnold Robbins ,
    .An Lou Salkind ,
    and others.
    The first release of
    .Nm pdksh
    was created by
    .An Eric Gisin ,
    and it was subsequently maintained by
    .An John R. MacMillan Aq Mt change!john@sq.sq.com ,
    .An Simon J. Gerraty Aq Mt sjg@zen.void.oz.au ,
    and
    .An Michael Rendell Aq Mt michael@cs.mun.ca .
    The
    .Pa CONTRIBUTORS
    file in the source distribution contains a more complete list of people and
    their part in the shell's development.
    .Sh BUGS
    .Pf $( Ar command )
    expressions are currently parsed by finding the closest matching (unquoted)
    parenthesis.
    Thus constructs inside
    .Pf $( Ar command )
    may produce an error.
    For example, the parenthesis in
    .Ql x);;
    is interpreted as the closing parenthesis in
    .Ql $(case x in x);; *);; esac) .