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Subject: Re: A request to segregate man pages for shell built-ins
From: Dale Scott <dalescott@shaw.ca>
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On Oct 24, 2017, at 8:23 PM, Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> wrote=
:
> ...
> But I run into roughly the same weather with shell built-ins, most of=20
> which do not have their own man page. 'man set' rather blandly throws up
> the man page for the shell, and it takes an immense effort to glean the=20=

> relevant information.

I too get frustrated trying to find man information on shell built-ins. Mayb=
e my problem is that I don't look often enough to learn a pattern.

Cheers,
Dale=