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RE: Where is documentation on bash "wait"?


Perhaps the problem is specific to your configuration -- man wait does
indeed point me to man bash, and the bash manpage does indeed cover wait
(I searched for SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS based on early text in the page,
and then searched from the top of that section for wait -- worked like a
charm.

stephan();


-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf
Of Bas van Gompel
Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 1:46 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Where is documentation on bash "wait"?

Op Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:45:06 +0000 schreef Eric Blake
in
<101520051745.25630.43514022000160940000641E22007614380A050E040D0C079D0A
@comcast.net>:
[What the...]
: > I tried info and man and could not find any information on wait. I
want to
: > (using bash)
:
:  Did you try 'man wait'?  That would have pointed you to 'man bash',
where

Did /you/ try it?

It complains about not finding bash.1.
Do you have a copy of bash.1 lying around somewhere?

To get this to work as I think it is intended, I need to:

1) gunzip /usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.gz and
   /usr/share/man/man1/bash_builtins.1.gz

2) patch /usr/share/man/man1/bash_builtins.1 like so:
--- /usr/share/man/man1/bash_builtins.1~	2005-10-15
21:27:52.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/share/man/man1/bash_builtins.1	2005-10-15 21:44:33.770000000
+0200
@@ -10,6 +10,6 @@
 ulimit, umask, unalias, unset, wait \- bash built-in commands, see
\fBbash\fR(1)
 .SH BASH BUILTIN COMMANDS
 .nr zZ 1
-.so bash.1
+.so man1/bash.1
 .SH SEE ALSO
 bash(1), sh(1)

3) re-gzip /usr/share/man/man1/bash_builtins.1, but not bash.1


For some reason it doesn't work with a gzipped bash.1.
(A bug in man? It looks like it doesn't gunzip in this case.)

[...]


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