I am writing to follow up on this old bug report about the lack of
documentation for the bash built-ins 'true' and 'false'. I agree with the
previous arguments on why these built-ins should be documented in 'info
bash',
and I would like to add two more reasons:
- The commands 'true' and 'false' th
On Sat Sep 28 2013 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 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.
The "NOTE" issued by
$ /bin/true --help
was one reason for me I looked into this. I assume
On Fri Sep 27 2013 Chris Down wrote:
> 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.
Well, the question is whether the info manual should provide a
self-contained documentation or whether it shou
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
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
On Fri Sep 27 2013 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> $ help true
> true: true
> Return a successful result.
>
> Exit Status:
> Always succeeds.
> $ help false
> false: false
> Return an unsuccessful result.
>
> Exit Status:
> Always fails.
Thanks, I did not know that.
Yet I
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 03:50:09PM +0530, Roland Winkler wrote:
> I guess there is not too much one can say about the bash built-ins
> `true' and `false'. Nonetheless, I suggest that the info pages
> should list these built-ins individually like other built-ins.
> Currently, the only hint on their
I guess there is not too much one can say about the bash built-ins
`true' and `false'. Nonetheless, I suggest that the info pages
should list these built-ins individually like other built-ins.
Currently, the only hint on their existence is buried in the info
node on Shell Builtin Commands saying t
