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From: ericblake@comcast.net (Eric Blake)
To: Herb Martin <HerbM@learnquick.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 -- Apropos still troublesome
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 14:47:14 +0000
Message-Id: <081520051447.12948.4300AAF2000D77650000329422064244130A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net>

> 
> 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.

--
Eric Blake


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