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Re: BASH_BUILTINS(1) | 'man bash_builtins' | Manual not found


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: BASH_BUILTINS(1) | 'man bash_builtins' | Manual not found
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:56:45 +0200
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On Sep 30 2021, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> No, they probably have a /usr/share/man/man1/alias.1.gz -> bash-builtins.1.gz
> symlink or something, set up by their OS vendor.

See the comment in doc/builtins.1:

.\" This is a hack to force bash builtins into the whatis database
.\" and to get the list of builtins to come up with the man command.

This happens automagically.

Andreas.

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