Re: Is the description of set -- missing in man bash or at least difficult to find?

[Bob Proulx]

Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Peng Yu wrote:
> > As a reasonable search strategy to search for how to set $@ is to
> > search for '$@' in man bash.
> 
> There is a "Special Parameters" section.  All of the parameters are listed
> there without their leading $ prefix.  For example, the documentation for
> $@ is found in the section marked with an @ under Special Parameters.
> 
> I submitted a patch to try to get the sections to be labeled with $@
> (etc.) so that people could find them, but the patch was not accepted.

+1 vote on getting the parameters listed with a leading dollar sign.
The individual single character is difficult to search for but the
combination of "$@" and so forth for the others is a useful search
string.  I have often wanted the manual to include the "$@"
combination instead of just the "@" name.

Bob