2014/11/02 11:19 "Carl Fink" <c...@finknetwork.com>: > > When I wanted the options for umask, I typed 'man umask' and got the man > page for it as a C header diretive? (I'm not a C programmer, but it seemed > to be for C header files and came from section 2.) > > This is darn confusing for a new user. I have been around long enough > (slink) that I quickly realized it must be a Bash builtin and found that man > page, but how would a beginner know that? Surely a symbolic link could be > set up for umask as well as the others (bg, eval, fg, read, etc.)? > > Should I file this as a bug against Sid? I know there's no chance it will > make it into Wheezy. > -- > Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com
Hmm. What do I get when I try to do a man umask? BASH_BUILTINS (1) I wonder why. I have a memory of doing something like installing a manpages package, but I'm not sure that was what did the trick, or it might have been mingw I did that on. Wheezy, FWIW. (And thanks to The Wanderer for reminding us about the help command. I keep forgetting that.) -- Joel Rees -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAAr43iMRC0bLMVjOgrapqX2wD7H8Jt0t0RGxt1unoXQ2j=d...@mail.gmail.com
