9 Feb
2020
9 Feb
'20
5:54 a.m.
Well, "whatis" was a fine starter in 1983.
I'm not saying anything should change. This is a history list.
-rob
On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 10:36 AM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey(a)case.edu> wrote:
On 2/8/20 6:29 PM, Rob Pike wrote:
% rc
% whatis cd
builtin cd
%
It's much simpler this way. The output is the executable input, free of
decoration and ready to use.
OK. `whatis' is a non-starter as a builtin, but bash ships with an example
`whatis' shell function that does this.
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