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Re: `help declare' don't show the same document with the online one.

From Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups gnu.bash.bug
Subject Re: `help declare' don't show the same document with the online one.
Date 2020-07-28 09:25 -0400
Organization ITS, Case Western Reserve University
Message-ID <mailman.202.1595942744.2739.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
References <CAGP6POJRc+J=3-9psywybQa+A_NJ0EqrBEdpbiTHkXtXCoWNVA@mail.gmail.com> <43223707-2235-2349-3b37-f18ab4e780e3@case.edu>

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> The online version of the document for declare told the following usage:
> 
> 
> declare
> declare [-aAfFgilnrtux] [-p] [name[=value] …]
> [...]
> The -p option will display the attributes and values of each name.
> When -p is used with name arguments, additional options, other than -f
> and -F, are ignored.
> 
> 
> But I can't find the same notes from the local version of the document
> for this command given by `help declare', any hints for this problem?

The help text built into bash is a much shorter version of the manual
text. It's intended to be a hint, with the man page providing the detail.



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