Re: Don't show help of `readonly' and `readarray' when I run `help read'

[Clark J. Wang]

I forgot to reply to all

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> On 2/11/11 3:53 AM, Clark J. Wang wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu
> > <mailto:chet.ramey@case.edu>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 2/10/11 4:03 AM, Clark J. Wang wrote:
> >     > help: help [-dms] [pattern ...]
> >     >
> >     > From my understanding the *pattern* here must be a glob-style
> pattern
> >     > (wildcard) so `readonly' does not match the pattern `read'.
> >
> >     The pattern is composed of the same characters as a glob pattern, but
> >     it's treated more like 'grep ^pattern topic' if it doesn't contain
> any
> >     special pattern matching characters.
> >
> >     Kind of like the following:
> >
> >     $ printf "%s\n" read readonly readarray | grep ^read /dev/stdin
> >     read
> >     readonly
> >     readarray
> >
> >
> >
> > But the command `help rea?' can only prints help for `read' so I don't
> > think it's treated more like 'grep ^pattern topic'.
>
> But that contains a pattern character.  I said above that it was treated
> like grep if it didn't contain any special pattern matching characters.
>
> Chet
>
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>



-- 
Clark