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| author | Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com> | 2017-02-17 16:29:36 +0200 |
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| committer | Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com> | 2017-02-17 16:29:36 +0200 |
| commit | 0600d3a82c414fff5e63038f9550ca28698ce6d6 (patch) | |
| tree | f098ac4b39c479c36acef3245e7e5f205cf34723 /doc | |
| parent | 9cf682c10cbc46679d361f937b124ed301d8ce25 (diff) | |
Add note on set being pseudo-builtin in testscript
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/testscript.cli | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/testscript.cli b/doc/testscript.cli index 5cb4521..49e9d45 100644 --- a/doc/testscript.cli +++ b/doc/testscript.cli @@ -1170,7 +1170,7 @@ token is an unquoted word, then the second token of the line is examined in the \c{second_token} mode (see below). If it is a variable assignment (either \c{+=}, \c{=+}, or \c{=}), then the line type is a variable line. Otherwise, it is a test command line. Note that variables with computed names can only -be set using the \l{#builtins-set \c{set} builtin}. +be set using the \l{#builtins-set \c{set} pseudo-builtin}. The Testscript language defines the following distinct lexing modes (or contexts): @@ -2436,6 +2436,10 @@ set [-e|--exact] [(-n|--newline)|(-w|--whitespace)] [<attr>] <var> Set variable from the \c{stdin} input. +Note that \c{set} is a \i{pseudo-builtin}. In particular, it must be the last +command in the pipe expression, it either succeeds or terminates abnormally, +and its \c{stderr} cannot be redirected. + Unless the \c{-e|--exact} option is specified, a single final newline is ignored in the input. |