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diff --git a/doc/execlineb.html b/doc/execlineb.html index fe4f0d3..f9d3e4d 100644 --- a/doc/execlineb.html +++ b/doc/execlineb.html @@ -133,10 +133,11 @@ newlines disappear completely. </li> <li> <tt>\0x<em>ab</em></tt> sequences are recognized in quoted strings and evaluate to ASCII hexadecimal number <em>ab</em>. </li> <li> <tt>\0<em>abc</em></tt> sequences are recognized in quoted strings -and evaluate to ASCII octal number <em>abc</em>. </li> +and evaluate to ASCII octal number <em>abc</em>. <em>abc</em> must not +be greater than <em>377</em>, or evaluate to 0. </li> <li> <tt>\<em>abc</em></tt> sequences are recognized in quoted strings and evaluate to ASCII decimal number <em>abc</em>. <em>a</em> must not -be zero. </li> +be zero. <em>abc</em> must not be greater than 255, or evaluate to 0. </li> <li> A comment starts with a <tt>#</tt> and ends with the line. Comments are not recognized inside quoted strings. </li> <li> Anything else is an unquoted string, that can evaluate to @@ -144,6 +145,9 @@ zero or more words. </li> <li> Any character can be escaped in unquoted strings by prepending it with a backslash. It works the same way in quoted strings, except for the special sequences described above. </li> + <li> As a special case, an unquoted backslash at the end of a line, or at +the end of the input, is ignored. This is to make it easier to copy +execline fragments from a shell script. </li> </ul> <p> |