Re: doc-strings of the 'command' built-in, as output by help

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/25/24 2:35 PM, Andrew Davis wrote:
> When running 'help command' in the shell, the output contains:
>
> >        -v    print a description of COMMAND similar to the `type' builtin
> >        -V    print a more verbose description of each COMMAND
>
> This seems to be opposite to the actual behaviour of 'command', in which
> '-V' (capital V) produces output similar to 'type'. The text within the
> Bash man-page appears to be correct.

Thanks for the report.

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