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Re: bash built-ins `true' and `false' undocumented


From: Mike Frysinger
Subject: Re: bash built-ins `true' and `false' undocumented
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 18:31:55 -0400
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On Friday 27 September 2013 16:20:57 Chris Down wrote:
> On 2013-09-27 20:19, Roland Winkler wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Well, they're directly part of the POSIX spec. I'm not sure there's a
> need to reiterate absolutely everything that is already required by
> POSIX.

on a GNU system, coreutils provides `true` and `false` as well as man & info 
pages.  i don't think having bash duplicate things would be useful in any way.
-mike

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