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  • Similar: Unwanted ctrl+h in file saved from man's output Commented Jun 15, 2017 at 6:59
  • What operating system are you using? I'm sure the accepted answer is correct but IO couldn't reproduce this on my Arch Linux box. man bash | grep NAME works as expected. Commented Jun 15, 2017 at 14:40
  • @terdon I'm on macOS. I get this behavior with Bash 3.2 and 4.4.5 Commented Jun 15, 2017 at 16:10
  • Just as an aside: if you detect a builtin, you can just use the bash help command to get its information. Commented Jun 16, 2017 at 23:50
  • @Joe The problem is I often find the help results leave too much out. Check out help complete vs the complete section in man bash, for instance. Commented Jun 17, 2017 at 2:43