Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/08/15/11:02:51
> From: Eric Blake [mailto:ericblake AT comcast DOT net]
> To: Herb Martin; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> > man hash and info hash are both worthless (except to admit
> that "hash"
> > is exists, i.e., is a built-in.
>
> Yes, bash documentation is not the best packaged (I like the
> Solaris man pages for shell builtins much better). What `man
> hash' is trying to tell you to do is run `man bash', then
> search the BUILTINS section for hash.
> > hash --help is nearly as bad, unless perhaps you already
> > know how it works and just need the switch letter.
> Yes, the bash maintainer did not add the --help option to his
> builtins. Instead, bash provides the builtin help command.
> Try `help hash' to see the subset of `man bash' relevant to
> the hash command.
hash --help gives two swith only (fairly cryptic lines).
BUT, help hash is much better than anything else I have
seen so far. Thanks.
(I had not even been TRYING "help" thinking that --help,
man, or info were the choices for getting help.)
Thanks again, and I really appreciate eveyone else's help too.
--
Herb Martin
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