From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Oct 25 06:14:38 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A0ADE40400 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 06:14:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:c4ea:bd49:619b:6cb3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk", Issuer "infracaninophile.co.uk" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 156D0832D4 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 06:14:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from liminal.local (unknown [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:f4e1:a501:ca0d:ce6f]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 411A514E5 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 06:14:35 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A request to segregate man pages for shell built-ins To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: From: Matthew Seaman Message-ID: Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 07:14:28 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="XRgpEEW3goqSm8JThvJuMM8dCkV1BEsMb" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 06:14:38 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --XRgpEEW3goqSm8JThvJuMM8dCkV1BEsMb Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="TpMFCkb8uDnHQXQgaF6RvcgFV2Keqr2TJ"; protected-headers="v1" From: Matthew Seaman To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: Subject: Re: A request to segregate man pages for shell built-ins References: In-Reply-To: --TpMFCkb8uDnHQXQgaF6RvcgFV2Keqr2TJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 25/10/2017 03:23, Manish Jain wrote: > (Note : some built-ins (e.g. 'test') do have their own man pages) That's because there's a stand-alone test(1) as well as a shell built-in.= > Is it not possible to create separate man pages for the shell built-ins= =20 > too ? Or at least ensure that invoking the built-in with --help gets th= e=20 > necessary information ? I'm sure creating separate man pages is possible: it's just a question of someone stepping up and doing the work. Cheers, Matthew --TpMFCkb8uDnHQXQgaF6RvcgFV2Keqr2TJ-- --XRgpEEW3goqSm8JThvJuMM8dCkV1BEsMb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJZ8CvLXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ2NTNBNjhCOTEzQTRFNkNGM0UxRTEzMjZC QjIzQUY1MThFMUE0MDEzAAoJELsjr1GOGkATrecP/2q6FmnLrrMcK9Qv0D1A+xFe cAuk2yQNnWaYDXKQgODiFT4qO0YSoWN5U3R59ILJ8vMaQTFWS95ptp76wn4u7RkD H0zQYSUm/xKu2zzyFNhDvCOmepqDyFqHi5eGTJLJbfIEcDGU5NGnlJnhXSW9cnhO VGyftTA1EfLGKAtR5B+Y2ACL2ENNYSMOxuPbNbb0GjSmreoMhzq+97S9FNdl6QoJ y51x1K99fy1lu4pHNv2l5k3fJQxG6p6yQGquXjeTmyD3K7vpiVdlsSvokBipDREN /uN7QmaP+JEwyt2uHA3LEWItfNBPJt1PrpTxsdHrVUcS8QYu6javNCc2G1AU9hfk /ciJezDqF5DV6+ei60I0OifKmDAqMMdBuA6KYx1jUnp2V9Zl39IaMayff1hUAK1D XQ9x85Yi/hk5WbLgEcqO50poqtGsHOOcqLpv/IAhQHpvHPQ8aOBpScgSIaMwe3DY eIwq8a46iqt4hkF0oQcJpYEoLyCF/5IjVBDH6ujH1t8+biQly5S0oc5C9K8z0CZl kEYFhMuXHsRPOY5jP1q7hZUJueIXtGeHwqUGFY4zNYClkxCto8x49+9HhKL/iwHK iDkIsYDc7JS0zuQuZJqyddXYKKiI5DoNfLdYCZ6V8lI8LQGI6A2WnYrMlYI3GvQy FGmX7i3gOtKnISsDNlcL =FYvX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XRgpEEW3goqSm8JThvJuMM8dCkV1BEsMb--