>> The -i option obviously works with set. But it is missing in the man >> page. Should this be added? > > No. It's really only there for completeness, so things like `set $-' > work as expected without error.
But if something is in the implementation, it should be also in the documentation, right? > The -s option does the same thing, > for example. > > -i is described in the OPTIONS section of the man page, since invocation > is the only place using it makes sense. Not necessarily. See my other example sent recently on the mailing list of trying to get COLUMNS. One may want to manually set -i option in a bash script for whatever reason. (In this case, it is to check COLUMNS.) -- Regards, Peng
