From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JKLSM-0002qW-Gf for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:30:58 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKLSL-0002qH-4T for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:30:57 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKLSI-0002oh-AL for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:30:56 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKLSH-0002oX-W9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:30:54 -0500 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JKLSH-0005Hz-Km for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:30:53 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JKLSH-00018U-37 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:30:53 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JKLSG-0004xi-Be for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:30:52 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JKLQn-00022V-I7 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:29:21 +0100 Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:29:21 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080130222921.GC7679@thorin> References: <1201731230.15073.45.camel@solid.paris.klabs.be> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1201731230.15073.45.camel@solid.paris.klabs.be> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) Subject: Re: Questions for writing manpages X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:30:57 -0000 On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:13:50PM +0100, Franklin PIAT wrote: > Hello, > > I have some questions for the writing the documentation[1]. > > ** How to use "If [ $x=foo ] Then Else fi" statement ? > > I've successfully used : > if [ A=B ] ; then echo "foo" ; else echo "bar" ; fi" > > But I cannot use variables, with either : > if [ $i=B ] ; then echo "foo" ; else echo "bar" ; fi" > if [ X$i=XB ] ; then echo "foo" ; else echo "bar" ; fi" Did you try ${i} and $(i)? (just guessing). > ** How would you define the "rescue" mode ? In what situation > can it be useful to the user ? Only when something breaks. For example, when GRUB can't load normal.mod (and its associated modules), it dumps you to rescue mode. > ** Does the "ofconsole" console supports unicode ? No. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)