* 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

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