# Wishlist **NOTE:** Due to neverending SPAM from various IPs (the usual pharmacy-links and whatnot nonsens) this page was made readonly. Another way of submitting wishes is the following form: ![ wishlist](/contact>subj=Wiki/ wishlist) ## Token Recognition and Shell Grammar a more human-readable version of the following topics: - - ## General A simplified version of \`man bash' and interesting bash tricks.:-) > The whole site is meant to be like that: a simplified or better > human-readable collection of manpage snipplets. Maybe a page with the > main topics of bash manpage that link to the proper articles would be > good (I just don't have enough articles heh) - a kind of summary page > --- Jan ## Some ideas **hmm maybe some of this stuff could make it somewhere to the wiki...:)** - an article about how to do ksh coprocess in bash (:V4: may be obsolete regarding [Bash 4 features](bash4)) 1. single way -\> process substitution 2. 2 way name pipes - let's write a interactive tutorial script that teaches readline/bash (like C-h t in emacs, or vimtutor or vilearn) - programmable history: ## Implemented ### Bash For Loop Multi-word lines From this solution on modifying the internal Field Separator (IFS) in bash I found here: - > added to [the for-loop-article](/syntax/ccmd/classic_for) as example, > but also made some critical comments; thanks --- Jan ### Getopts tutorial - My school offers a UNIX programming course (C, shell, etc.). I use this site extensively to help my friends taking this course learn concepts such as I/O redirection etc. As it gets more advanced they need to do option parsing. Therefore I would like to see a "getopts illustrated" article or some such, showing the breakdown of how it parses parameters.