On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 01:32:54PM -0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > On 2022-11-20, Reuben mac Saoidhea <ancatm...@outlook.com> wrote: > > >> It is a builtin, so it is documented inside ksh. > > > > i think the 4.3BSD manual allowed for example `man while' for `man sh'? > > FreeBSD has a builtin(1) man page that attempts to list the csh(1) > and sh(1) builtins and points to the respective man pages: > > https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=builtin > > It's an attempt to do something about this problem, but I think the > result isn't that great.
I am writing this from ParrotOS (Debian derivative) and since I am avid user of bash, I can do "man bash-builtins" and it prints me a very nice looking summary. Bash package version is 5.1-2+deb11u1, which probably means 5.1 with some Debian-specific addons. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com **
