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Re: Making $! and $? searchable in the man page
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: Making $! and $? searchable in the man page |
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Thu, 6 Jan 2011 12:33:16 -0500 |
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On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 10:48:33AM +0100, Vidar Holen wrote:
> Hi,
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> Finding the meaning of $? and $! in the man page is quite hard for people
> not familiar with the layout and bash terminology (this frequently comes
> up in Freenode #bash). It would be very helpful for them if you could
> simply search for "$!" to find the description of the parameter !.
I absolutely second this. In fact, I sent a very similar patch for this
last year.