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Re:The Linux Commands HandBook by asicsp on Thursday November 05, 2020 @08:05AM (#24997878)
can also use `help pushd` to get manual only for that command ('help' is like 'man' for built-ins)
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Re:The Linux Commands HandBook by LeonM on Thursday November 05, 2020 @11:24AM (#24999519)
This is what I needed. None of the man pages showed information on the bash functions. 'help' did the job.

Ironically, 'man help' yields no results.

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Re:The Linux Commands HandBook by joombaga on Thursday November 05, 2020 @11:54AM (#24999757)
That's because `help` is also builtin. It's listed under "SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS" in `man bash 1` (or use the non-obvious `help help`)
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