Bug 428222 - builtins man page missing section on conditional expressions
Summary: builtins man page missing section on conditional expressions
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: bash
Version: 8
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Tomas Janousek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-01-10 00:20 UTC by Mikel Ward
Modified: 2008-02-04 14:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-02-04 14:13:23 UTC
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Description Mikel Ward 2008-01-10 00:20:37 UTC
Some man pages refer to bash builtins (usually but not always including read and
test).

The documentation for test doesn't mention common things like the -f, -d, or -L
flags.  It refers to a non-existent section called "CONDITIONAL EXPRESSIONS".

If you can't see the man page I'm talking about, just try "man builtins".

$ rpm -q bash
bash-3.2-18.fc8

Comment 1 Tomas Janousek 2008-01-21 13:38:31 UTC
The text in the builtins.1 manpage is included from the bash.1 manpage, so it
refers to the section in the bash manpage. I don't think it's viable to mention
that the section is in the bash manpage, not in the builtins one, because the
very same text would have to be in the bash manpage.

Comment 2 Mikel Ward 2008-01-21 20:31:54 UTC
I was thinking we either statically include that section of text from the bash
man page, dynamically include it, or better still, re-write the section on the
test builtin to include it.

Comment 3 Tomas Janousek 2008-02-04 14:13:23 UTC
I don't think it's worth the effort.


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