Kervin wrote:
> 
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> 
> Did you try "man bash" or man <command>.  The man pages for the shells
> are very, very long, but the ones for the individual commands can be
> very helpful online docs, eg. "man while" or "man read".
> 
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The problem with that is that the man pages do not document the shell
builtins (they have a section in man bash), but the external programs,
which may have more or less functionality than the shell builtin. time
and kill are good examples of that.

Marc

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