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Date:      Tue, 24 Oct 2017 23:14:43 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Dale Scott <dalescott@shaw.ca>
To:        Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: A request to segregate man pages for shell built-ins
Message-ID:  <EE7581FF-57B9-4503-86BE-AF67E05ED802@shaw.ca>
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On Oct 24, 2017, at 8:23 PM, Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> wrote=
:
> ...
> But I run into roughly the same weather with shell built-ins, most of=20
> which do not have their own man page. 'man set' rather blandly throws up
> the man page for the shell, and it takes an immense effort to glean the=20=

> relevant information.

I too get frustrated trying to find man information on shell built-ins. Mayb=
e my problem is that I don't look often enough to learn a pattern.

Cheers,
Dale=



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