* 2010-02-14 14:08 (-0500), Wayne wrote: > man bash > > that brings up the bash man page and you can search through it for > whatever you need to. As read is a bash command, it should be > mentioned in the bash man page.
Yes, "read" is a Bash built-in command: $ type read read is a shell builtin As you said, help for such commans are in the Bash man page but there is also "help" command for built-ins: $ help read -- Feel free to Cc me your replies if you want to make sure I'll notice them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87zl3b39e7....@mithlond.arda