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
$
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.
That’s what help command is for.
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.
Well, it’s not the 1990s, but still. Dammit.
LMAO actual madlad going in to check personally.
Also damn that was 16 years ago.
It gets complicated when using zsh.
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.
If you’re not familiar, there’s a
chshcommand.That probably wasn’t part of the upgrade process.
Ah that’s fair lmao