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Re: Which manual is the authoritative source?
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Which manual is the authoritative source? |
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Wed, 9 Feb 2022 09:10:50 -0500 |
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On 2/9/22 1:47 AM, Akbarkhon Variskhanov wrote:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/
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> This page lists several formats of the manual for bash.
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> PDF and HTML files, for example, differ in many ways. My question is: which
> one should be considered authoritative and ultimate?
The files doc/bash.1 and doc/bashref.texi (with its includes of other
texinfo files) in the current distribution are the authoritative versions.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/