On 11/02/2014 at 03:23 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > 2014/11/02 11:19 "Carl Fink" <carl@finknetwork.com>: > >> When I wanted the options for umask, I typed 'man umask' and got >> the man page for it as a C header diretive? (I'm not a C >> programmer, but it seemed to be for C header files and came from >> section 2.) >> >> This is darn confusing for a new user. I have been around long >> enough (slink) that I quickly realized it must be a Bash builtin >> and found that man page, but how would a beginner know that? Surely >> a symbolic link could be set up for umask as well as the others >> (bg, eval, fg, read, etc.)? >> >> Should I file this as a bug against Sid? I know there's no chance >> it will make it into Wheezy. > > Hmm. What do I get when I try to do a man umask? > > BASH_BUILTINS (1) > > I wonder why. I have a memory of doing something like installing a > manpages package, but I'm not sure that was what did the trick, or > it might have been mingw I did that on. Could you check with dlocate or similar to figure out where that came from? The closest man page I have to that is bash-builtins(7), which comes with the bash package, but is not the same as bash_builtins(1) - and does not have an umask(anything) symlink. > Wheezy, FWIW. > > (And thanks to The Wanderer for reminding us about the help command. > I keep forgetting that.) Heh. I think the reason I learned about it in a way which helps me keep remembering it myself is due to experimenting based on a line from the "Draft of the UNIX Hierarchy", describing someone at one level of the hierarchy as having "learned that learn doesn't help". I have never found a command called 'learn', or otherwise figured out what this might have been referring to, but it's memorable enough that the experimentation I did based on it is also easy to bring back to mind - and I'm pretty sure that I found 'help' while experimenting that way. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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