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From: "Herb Martin" <HerbM AT learnquick DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 -- Apropos still troublesome
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:02:49 -0500
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> 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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