Apple - Where can I find all the documentation for mac's builtin shell commands?
You do the exact same thing.
So...
$ help if
if: if COMMANDS; then COMMANDS; [ elif COMMANDS; then COMMANDS; ]... [ else COMMANDS; ] fi
The `if COMMANDS' list is executed. If its exit status is zero, then the
`then COMMANDS' list is executed. Otherwise, each `elif COMMANDS' list is
executed in turn, and if its exit status is zero, the corresponding
`then COMMANDS' list is executed and the if command completes. Otherwise,
the `else COMMANDS' list is executed, if present. The exit status of the
entire construct is the exit status of the last command executed, or zero
if no condition tested true.
Or...
$ help fc
fc: fc [-e ename] [-nlr] [first] [last] or fc -s [pat=rep] [cmd]
fc is used to list or edit and re-execute commands from the history list.
FIRST and LAST can be numbers specifying the range, or FIRST can be a
string, which means the most recent command beginning with that
string.
-e ENAME selects which editor to use. Default is FCEDIT, then EDITOR,
then vi.
-l means list lines instead of editing.
-n means no line numbers listed.
-r means reverse the order of the lines (making it newest listed first).
With the `fc -s [pat=rep ...] [command]' format, the command is
re-executed after the substitution OLD=NEW is performed.
A useful alias to use with this is r='fc -s', so that typing `r cc'
runs the last command beginning with `cc' and typing `r' re-executes
the last command.
On macOS Catalina (10.15) and above, use:
man zshbuiltins
That's because zsh
is now the default shell on Mac (not bash
). As you and @Ricardo noted in the comments above, you can't use help
in zsh
.