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RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 -- Apropos still troublesome
- From: ericblake at comcast dot net (Eric Blake)
- To: Herb Martin <HerbM at learnquick dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 14:47:14 +0000
- Subject: RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 -- Apropos still troublesome
>
> man hash and info hash are both worthless (except to
> admit that "hash" is exists, i.e., is a built-in.
Yes, bash documentation is not the best packaged (I like the
Solaris man pages for shell builtins much better). What
`man hash' is trying to tell you to do is run `man bash', then
search the BUILTINS section for hash.
>
> hash --help is nearly as bad, unless perhaps you already
> know how it works and just need the switch letter.
>
Yes, the bash maintainer did not add the --help option to
his builtins. Instead, bash provides the builtin help command.
Try `help hash' to see the subset of `man bash' relevant to
the hash command.
--
Eric Blake
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