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I am using bash I wanted to read the documentation of set But when i typed man set,it is showing No manual entry for set But when i code set hit="COVID19" echo $1 it prints as hit=COVID19 How ...

I tried to look up info on export and set using man and was surprised to see there is nothing. Is this true, or is this something distribution specific? Why is the page missing?

I'm trying to figure out what's going on with my history... but I can't find the manual history -h returns nothing man history returns a level 8 history manual, not the bash one we all use.

Is there anywhere you can download a manpage for every builtin commands? I know you can just use help or man bash and search to find info about it, but I want them separated, so I can just do man ...

Typing man alias gives me No manual entry for alias The same thing goes for export and eval. At first I thought it only happens to shell built-in commands but man echo gives me the man page. Except ...

I have a script with for i in 1 2 3 4; do do_something $i & done And when I call it, it terminates before all do_something terminated. I found this question with many different answers. ...

I recently came across the command where, which provides the actual path of executables in Linux. I was aware of which, whereis, locate and find, but not where. I want to know when this command got ...

I want to replace names that I received in uppercase letters only. The names are mixed with other information which should stay as it is. AUTH: at the beginning of the line identifies it as a line ...

For example, [fakename]$ type echo echo is a shell builtin But man echo gives me the GNU coreutils version of echo. What's the easiest way to tell if the man page I'm looking at is the correct one, i....

The 'man' utility that comes with a Debian distro is not as comprehensive as ss64.com, and in environment like cygwin, it is even more so. Is there a software or a script that will make my 'man' more ...

In this edit Stéphane Chazelas POSIXifies (again) my sed formatting by inserting an -expression break and another -expression statement. Now, I might just ask him why in the comments, I suppose, but ...

I'm trying to use umask -S to show the current mask in symbolic form (per man umask on my system, which gives me the page BASH_BUILTINS(1)). But umask doesn't seem to behave as the manpage claims: ...