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diff --git a/doc/forbacktickx.html b/doc/forbacktickx.html index d40799a..0780f3d 100644 --- a/doc/forbacktickx.html +++ b/doc/forbacktickx.html @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ run another program. </p> <pre> - forbacktickx [ -p | -x breakcode ] [ -n ] [ -C | -c ] [ -0 | -d <em>delim</em> ] <em>variable</em> { <em>gen...</em> } <em>loop...</em> + forbacktickx [ -p | -o <em>okcodes</em> | -x <em>breakcodes</em> ] [ -n ] [ -C | -c ] [ -0 | -d <em>delim</em> ] <em>variable</em> { <em>gen...</em> } <em>loop...</em> </pre> <ul> @@ -56,11 +56,17 @@ exiting, though. </li> <li> <tt>-0</tt> : accept null characters from <em>gen</em>'s output, using them as delimiters. If this option and a <tt>-d</tt> option are used simultaneously, the rightmost one wins. </li> - <li> <tt>-x</tt> <em>breakcodes</em> : <em>breakcodes</em> must -be a comma-separated list of exit codes. If at some point <em>loop...</em> -exits with a code listed in <em>breakcodes</em>, forbacktickx will not keep -looping, but will exit immediately with the same exit code. This doesn't apply -if the <tt>-p</tt> option has been given. </li> + <li> <tt>-o</tt> <em>okcodes</em> : <em>okcodes</em> must +be a comma-separated list of exit codes. If the <tt>-p</tt> flag +hasn't been given and <em>loop</em> exits with one of the codes in +<em>okcodes</em>, +forbacktickx will run the following instances of the loop, but if the exit code is +not listed in <em>okcodes</em>, forbacktickx will exit immediately with an +<a href="exitcodes.html">approximation</a> of the same exit code. </li> + <li> <tt>-x</tt> <em>breakcodes</em> : like the previous +option, but with inverted meaning - the listed exit codes are codes +that will make forbacktickx break the loop and exit, and the unlisted exit +codes will make it keep looping. </li> <li> Other options are used to <a href="el_transform.html">control the substitution mechanism</a> for every <em>x</em>. Of course, you can't split <em>x</em>. </li> |