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Re:Things I Wish I'd Known About Bash by oblio on Saturday January 06, 2018 @02:57PM (#16087106)
"If you are a bash newbie, you should read the bash manual. If you want proper search for the manual, you should use info. If you want proper use of info, you should use Emacs."

Kind of a deep rabbit hole, isn't it?

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Re:Things I Wish I'd Known About Bash by teddyh on Saturday January 06, 2018 @03:53PM (#16087396)
Not in this case; the bash manual is not in Info form, but a regular old-style Unix man page.
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Re:Things I Wish I'd Known About Bash by gbacon on Saturday January 06, 2018 @07:39PM (#16088365)
True. You can do just fine in general eschewing info wankery in favor of man pages. Stallman may disapprove, but I don’t lose sleep over it.
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