On 2/10/11 4:03 AM, Clark J. Wang wrote:
> help: help [-dms] [pattern ...]
>
> From my understanding the *pattern* here must be a glob-style pattern
> (wildcard) so `readonly' does not match the pattern `read'.
The pattern is composed of the same characters as a glob pattern, but
it's treated more like 'grep ^pattern topic' if it doesn't contain any
special pattern matching characters.
Kind of like the following:
$ printf "%s\n" read readonly readarray | grep ^read /dev/stdin
read
readonly
readarray
Chet
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