Timeline for man set is not found in bash?
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| May 29, 2020 at 15:52 | comment | added | schily | You are observing a typical Linux problem. man set works on a typical UNIX system. That man page however does not include information on the bash builtin command but just for the default shells. | |
| May 29, 2020 at 15:45 | comment | added | AdminBee | @StéphaneChazelas thank you, that's good to know (seriously). Still, it was originally meant as a caveat to this answer, and it may be worth including that information in the post. | |
| May 29, 2020 at 15:43 | comment | added | Stéphane Chazelas | @AdminBee, set --help would only work in ksh93 and recent versions of bash (4.4+). With older bash, help set would work better. See also info bash set (or info zsh set for zsh's set builtin), and set --man (or set --nroff 2>&1 | man -l -) in ksh93. | |
| May 29, 2020 at 15:42 | comment | added | AdminBee | If I do that in Linux Mint, I get bash: set: --: invalid option | |
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| May 29, 2020 at 15:42 | history | edited | AdminBee | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Formatting |
| May 29, 2020 at 15:38 | history | answered | carrotNugget | CC BY-SA 4.0 |