I forgot to reply to all On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
> On 2/11/11 3:53 AM, Clark J. Wang wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu > > <mailto:chet.ra...@case.edu>> wrote: > > > > On 2/10/11 4:03 AM, Clark J. Wang wrote: > > > help: help [-dms] [pattern ...] > > > > > > From my understanding the *pattern* here must be a glob-style > pattern > > > (wildcard) so `readonly' does not match the pattern `read'. > > > > The pattern is composed of the same characters as a glob pattern, but > > it's treated more like 'grep ^pattern topic' if it doesn't contain > any > > special pattern matching characters. > > > > Kind of like the following: > > > > $ printf "%s\n" read readonly readarray | grep ^read /dev/stdin > > read > > readonly > > readarray > > > > > > > > But the command `help rea?' can only prints help for `read' so I don't > > think it's treated more like 'grep ^pattern topic'. > > But that contains a pattern character. I said above that it was treated > like grep if it didn't contain any special pattern matching characters. > > Chet > > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu > http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ > -- Clark
