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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