Well, "whatis" was a fine starter in 1983.

I'm not saying anything should change. This is a history list.

-rob


On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 10:36 AM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> On 2/8/20 6:29 PM, Rob Pike wrote:
> > % rc
> >
> > % whatis cd
> >
> > builtin cd
> >
> > %
> >
> >
> > It's much simpler this way. The output is the executable input, free of
> > decoration and ready to use.
>
> OK. `whatis' is a non-starter as a builtin, but bash ships with an example
> `whatis' shell function that does this.
>
> --
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> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
>