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Re: 'help set' missing '--'

From: Chris F.A. Johnson
Subject: Re: 'help set' missing '--'
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:16:02 -0500 (EST)
User-agent: Alpine 2.00 (LMD 1167 2008-08-23) 
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Christopher Roy Bratusek wrote:


On Monday 10 January 2011 09:06:42 Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:

On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Jan Schampera wrote:

the help output for the set builtin command misses '--'.


    It's there:

SYNOPSIS
     set [--abefhkmnptuvxBCHP] [-o option-name] [arg ...]


Hmm, one could read it as "--" "--a" "--b" and so on, maybe it could be
improved.


   Agreed. Perhaps:

      set [-[-abefhkmnptuvxBCHP]] [-o option-name] [arg ...]

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   Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com>
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   Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress)
   Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
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