Acknowledgements: Item: Word Input-Output Name Value Simple-Command: Item Simple-Command Item Command: Simple-Command
Acknowledgements: Item: Word Input-Output Name Value Simple-Command: Item Simple-Command Item Command: Simple-Command
Acknowledgements
The design of the shell is based in part on the original UNIX shell and the PWB/UNIX shell, some features having been taken from both. Similarities also exist with the command interpreters of the Cambridge Multiple Access System and of CTSS.
I would like to thank Dennis Ritchie and John Mashey for many discussions during the design of the shell. I am also grateful to the members of the Computing Science Research Center and to Joe Maranzano for their comments on drafts of this document.
Appendix A - Grammar
item: word input-output name = value simple-command: item simple-command item command: simple-command ( command-list ) { command-list } for name do command-list done for name in word ... do command-list done while command-list do command-list done until command-list do command-list done case word in case-part ... esac if command-list then command-list else-part fi
pipeline: command pipeline | command andor: pipeline andor && pipeline andor || pipeline command-list: andor command-list ; command-list & command-list ; andor command-list & andor input-output: > file < file >> word << word file: word