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License: GNU GPLv3 +
Version number: GNU Bash 5
Developer / owner: Free Software Foundation Inc.
Short description:
The manual page and help for the built-in Bash command help. The help command is a tool that displays help for built-in commands.
Man page output
man bash
[...] help [-dms] [pattern] Display helpful information about builtin commands. If pattern is specified, help gives detailed help on all commands matching pattern; otherwise help for all the builtins and shell control structures is printed. -d Display a short description of each pattern -m Display the description of each pattern in a manpage-like format -s Display only a short usage synopsis for each pattern The return status is 0 unless no command matches pattern. [...]
Help output
help help
help: help [-dms] [minta ...] Display information about builtin commands. Displays brief summaries of builtin commands. If PATTERN is specified, gives detailed help on all commands matching PATTERN, otherwise the list of help topics is printed. Options: -d output short description for each topic -m display usage in pseudo-manpage format -s output only a short usage synopsis for each topic matching PATTERN Arguments: PATTERN Pattern specifying a help topic Exit Status: Returns success unless PATTERN is not found or an invalid option is given.
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