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Re: bash built-ins `true' and `false' undocumented
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Roland Winkler |
Subject: |
Re: bash built-ins `true' and `false' undocumented |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Sep 2013 20:19:56 +0530 |
On Fri Sep 27 2013 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> $ help true
> true: true
> Return a successful result.
>
> Exit Status:
> Always succeeds.
> $ help false
> false: false
> Return an unsuccessful result.
>
> Exit Status:
> Always fails.
Thanks, I did not know that.
Yet I think that the info pages are supposed to provide the definitive
information about GNU software. So I still believe that it would be
useful to list these builtins in the info pages, too. Certainly,
the info pages are more useful for getting an overview. `help foo'
only helps if you already have some idea of what you are looking for.