so we do have to provide all these man pages and manage them with
alternatives among all the shells?

sounds like a mess to maintain.

Colin Watson writes:
 > Here's a list of man pages and the names that don't appear anywhere in the
 > filesystem:
 > 
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: .
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: :
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: alias
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: bg
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: bind
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: break
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: builtin
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: case
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: cd
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: command
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: continue
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: declare
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: dirs
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: disown
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: enable
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: eval
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: exec
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: exit
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: export
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: fg
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: for
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: getopts
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: hash
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: help
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: if
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: jobs
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: let
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: local
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: logout
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: popd
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: pushd
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: read
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: readonly
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: return
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: set
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: shift
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: shopt
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: source
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: suspend
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: times
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: trap
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: type
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: typeset
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: ulimit
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: umask
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: unalias
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: unset
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: until
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: wait
 >   usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.gz: while
 > 

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