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Re: Re: umask has no man page?



Hi

On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 01:56:36PM +1100, Alexis wrote:
> 
> Iain M Conochie writes:
> 
> > However:
> > 
> > $: which umask
> > $:
> > 
> > So umask is _not_ a program (in the sense that there is no binary
> > called umask on the system)
> 
> zsh, however, is more helpful:
> 
> $ which umask
> umask: shell built-in command

Well, it *appears* that zsh is more helpful.  But only because the
"which" command itself is a built-in for zsh  :-) (it isn't for bash)

So you have the opposite problem: "man which" gives you the wrong
manual page :-) (but presumably very similar)

-- 
Karl E. Jorgensen


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