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authorLevi Bostian <levi.bostian@gmail.com>2014-10-30 20:44:42 -0500
committerLevi Bostian <levi.bostian@gmail.com>2014-10-30 20:44:42 -0500
commitcd7a2e72d5850974ecd330004f3546adfbd4fe75 (patch)
treeb6d7ee2abc5ddd845313a8e14da1d35f6bcfd0b8
parent9930b416962bbf70169bc72292a44b2bef275d76 (diff)
parent112b0b7662d3e235e8bee88ba45fccd8d7932e98 (diff)
Merge pull request #840 from westurner/patch-2
[bash/en] add bash help, man, info, docs examples
-rw-r--r--bash.html.markdown26
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown
index 11c1f3a2..81d586c4 100644
--- a/bash.html.markdown
+++ b/bash.html.markdown
@@ -208,4 +208,30 @@ grep "^foo.*bar$" file.txt
grep -c "^foo.*bar$" file.txt
# if you literally want to search for the string, and not the regex, use fgrep (or grep -F)
fgrep "^foo.*bar$" file.txt
+
+
+# Read Bash shell builtins documentation with the bash 'help' builtin:
+help
+help help
+help for
+help return
+help source
+help .
+
+# Read Bash manpage documentation with man
+apropos bash
+man 1 bash
+man bash
+
+# Read info documentation with info (? for help)
+apropos info | grep '^info.*('
+man info
+info info
+info 5 info
+
+# Read bash info documentation:
+info bash
+info bash 'Bash Features'
+info bash 6
+info --apropos bash
```