[BangPypers] source

Noufal Ibrahim noufal at gmail.com
Mon Aug 16 20:21:00 CEST 2010


Jeffrey Jose <jeffjosejeff at gmail.com> writes:

>>
>>
>> I don't think it'd help. It's a shell builtin without a man page of it's
>> own. You'd either have to do "man bash" or "help source"
>>
>> wont `man <builtin>` take you to `man bash` (man tcsh, in my case)
> automatically?

Doesn't for me on Ubuntu 10.04

> noufal at sanitarium:~$ man source
> No manual entry for source
> noufal at sanitarium:~$ 

Besides, as far as I know, "man" isn't aware of your shell. It'd had to
have intelligence to change the page it delivers based on your current
shell. 

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