FWIW, most if not all bash builtins turn up when searching in man bash for [four spaces]command-name[space], but as someone else points out, the help command also er, helps.
Maybe it’s the (default) configuration on my distro, but info bash is the same information as man bash but with no bold text for headings and things. Ironically, I think I’d have to sit down with man info or info info for an hour or two before I could figure out how to get that formatting to show up in info.
Oooh, neat. I didn’t know about that. Thanks. That better not have been around since the 1990s or something, with me always searching the bash(1) man page to find builtin information.
$ help help|head -n2
help: help [-dms] [pattern ...]
Display information about builtin commands.
$ git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/bash.git
$ cd bash
$ git log -S "Display information about builtin commands."|grep ^commit|tail -n1
commit 3185942a5234e26ab13fa02f9c51d340cec514f8
$ git show 3185942a5234e26ab13fa02f9c51d340cec514f8|grep ^Date
Date: Mon Jan 12 13:36:28 2009 +0000
$
I’m not complaining, much, but when my distro switched from bash to zsh and I didn’t know until I reinstalled it for shins and gargles… that was a bad day for my remembered commands.
It’s a bash builtin, so none of these work anyway.
FWIW, most if not all bash builtins turn up when searching in
man bashfor [four spaces]command-name[space], but as someone else points out, thehelpcommand also er, helps.Or you could read the info pages.
Maybe it’s the (default) configuration on my distro, but
info bashis the same information asman bashbut with no bold text for headings and things. Ironically, I think I’d have to sit down withman infoorinfo infofor an hour or two before I could figure out how to get that formatting to show up ininfo.That’s what help command is for.
Oooh, neat. I didn’t know about that. Thanks. That better not have been around since the 1990s or something, with me always searching the bash(1) man page to find builtin information.
Well, it’s not the 1990s, but still. Dammit.
LMAO actual madlad going in to check personally.
Also damn that was 16 years ago.
It gets complicated when using zsh.
I’m not complaining, much, but when my distro switched from bash to zsh and I didn’t know until I reinstalled it for shins and gargles… that was a bad day for my remembered commands.
If you’re not familiar, there’s a
chshcommand.Ah that’s fair lmao