Re: help builtin bug ???

2011-01-20 Thread Chet Ramey
On 1/19/11 7:22 PM, Sławomir Iwanek wrote: > hello, > > I did something like that: > > $ help * > > and I got all the definitions of builtins starting from the letter 'c' > that is from 'caller' through 'coproc'. Presumably because you had a file named `c' in the current directory. > > Well,

Re: help builtin bug ???

2011-01-20 Thread Andreas Schwab
Greg Wooledge writes: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 02:59:49PM +0100, S??awomir Iwanek wrote: >> hello, >> >> and what about this: >> >> $ help () >> >> it opens some program in an interactive mode (which one?). > > Interesting... here, I get the PS2 prompt. > > arc3:~$ help () >> > > Of course t

Re: help builtin bug ???

2011-01-20 Thread Clark J. Wang
2011/1/20 Sławomir Iwanek > hello, > > and what about this: > > $ help () > > it opens some program in an interactive mode (which one?). It seems like > it does not react on any command, like '?', giving the output: > > bash: błąd składni przy nieoczekiwanym znaczniku `?' > > (it's in Polish - me

Re: help builtin bug ???

2011-01-20 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 02:59:49PM +0100, S??awomir Iwanek wrote: > hello, > > and what about this: > > $ help () > > it opens some program in an interactive mode (which one?). Interesting... here, I get the PS2 prompt. arc3:~$ help () > Of course that has nothing to do with the 'help' built

Re: help builtin bug ???

2011-01-20 Thread Sławomir Iwanek
hello, and what about this: $ help () it opens some program in an interactive mode (which one?). It seems like it does not react on any command, like '?', giving the output: bash: błąd składni przy nieoczekiwanym znaczniku `?' (it's in Polish - meaning syntax error at '?' mark) and quits imme