On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> wrote: > On 07/30/2014 07:48 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: >> On 7/30/14, 2:44 PM, Notes Jonny wrote: >>> On 7 Jul 2014 19:47, "Eric Blake" <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 07/07/2014 12:34 PM, Chris Down wrote: >>>>> Hi Jon, >>>>> >>>>> As is standard with other buitins, umask is documented at `help umask`: >>>> >>>> That said, POSIX allows, and ksh already supports, the use of --help as >>>> an option to ALL builtins. It might be nice if bash were to take a leaf >>>> from ksh and add generic support for --help to all builtins, instead of >>>> requiring users to remember 'help foo' as yet another item in their >>>> arsenal alongside 'info foo', 'man foo', and 'foo --help'. >>> >>> Sounds good. How best to progress this, as a bugzilla ticket? >> >> You've already requested it as a new feature. I will evaluate it against >> the other requests and implement it if it makes the grade. > > FWIW +1 for this feature both to minimize diffs between shells, > and to have one less likely barrier hit for the important > group that is first time users. > > cheers, > Pádraig.
Hi Guys Any update on implementing this? Regards, Jonny
