Re: An inconsistency of the outputs of help builtin

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/20/24 7:30 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2024, at 8:09 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > help -d c    does not exactly match anything, so it's treated like c\*
>
> Is this documented somewhere?  I'm not seeing anything about it in
> the man page or texinfo manual.

If the argument contains pattern matching characters, it's treated as a
pattern and help prints the description of each help topic matching that 
pattern.

If not, and it matches the name of a help topic exactly, help prints the
description associated with that topic. Otherwise, help performs prefix
matching and prints the descriptions of all matching help topics.

Chet
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