Where to view man pages for Bash builtin commands?
BUILTIN
commands don't have separate man pages. Those are covered by help
pages. You can do:
help history
or
help fg
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 fg
jumps 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.