On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 10:48:33AM +0100, Vidar Holen wrote: > Hi, > > Finding the meaning of $? and $! in the man page is quite hard for people > not familiar with the layout and bash terminology (this frequently comes > up in Freenode #bash). It would be very helpful for them if you could > simply search for "$!" to find the description of the parameter !.
I absolutely second this. In fact, I sent a very similar patch for this last year.