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    [–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    It's a bash builtin, so none of these work anyway.

    [–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    That's what help command is for.

    help cd
    help while
    help

    [–] tal@lemmy.today 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Oooh, neat. I didn't know about that. Thanks. That better not have been around since the 1990s or something, with me always searching the bash(1) man page to find builtin information.

    $ help help|head -n2
help: help [-dms] [pattern ...]
    Display information about builtin commands.
$ git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/bash.git
$ cd bash
$ git log -S "Display information about builtin commands."|grep ^commit|tail -n1
commit 3185942a5234e26ab13fa02f9c51d340cec514f8
$ git show 3185942a5234e26ab13fa02f9c51d340cec514f8|grep ^Date
Date:   Mon Jan 12 13:36:28 2009 +0000
$

    Well, it's not the 1990s, but still. Dammit.

    [–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    LMAO actual madlad going in to check personally.

    Also damn that was 16 years ago.

    [–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    It gets complicated when using zsh.

    [–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    I'm not complaining, much, but when my distro switched from bash to zsh and I didn't know until I reinstalled it for shins and gargles... that was a bad day for my remembered commands.

    [–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    If you're not familiar, there's a chsh command.

    [–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

    That probably wasn't part of the upgrade process.

    [–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

    Ah that's fair lmao

    [–] palordrolap@fedia.io 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    FWIW, most if not all bash builtins turn up when searching in man bash for [four spaces]command-name[space], but as someone else points out, the help command also er, helps.

    [–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Or you could read the info pages.

    [–] palordrolap@fedia.io 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Maybe it's the (default) configuration on my distro, but info bash is the same information as man bash but with no bold text for headings and things. Ironically, I think I'd have to sit down with man info or info info for an hour or two before I could figure out how to get that formatting to show up in info.

    [–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

    Info pages are supposed to be way way more comprehensive than man pages. At least for the Gnu stuff since nobody else ever bothered with info (which can be painful to use for newcomers with the cli browser, although the kde help browser integrates info files flawlessly, of course).