Where to view man pages for Bash builtin commands?
I have the following bash function defined in my ~/.bashrc:
bashman () { man bash | less -p "^ $1 "}This allows me to (in most cases) jump directly to the relevant section of the bash man page for the given builtin. E.g.
bashman fgjumps directly to:
fg [jobspec] Resume jobspec in the foreground, and make it the current job. If jobspec is not present, the shell's notion of the current job ...Unfortunately it doesn't work quite so well for some builtins - history is one of them. In those cases, you will have to n through the man page several times to get to the required section.