Re: [Help-bash] bash with the -x option

[Michael Convey]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Dennis Williamson <
address@hidden> wrote:

>
> At http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#The-Set-Builtin
>
> If you do bash --help, you get this near the bottom:
>
> Type `bash -c "help set"' for more information about shell options.
>

Thanks all. ​The output is identical between 'help set' and 'bash -c "help
set"'. Why does the man page ​provide the longer option instead of the
shorter? Is it assuming you might be starting from a different shell and
need to invoke bash to run it? Is the only difference that 'bash -c "help
set"' is being run in a child shell?