Where can I find all the documentation for mac's builtin shell commands?
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The [
builtin
man page for Mac OS X](https://web.archive.org/web/20040709220105/http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/html/builtins.1.html) lists out all builtin functions (commands that can be executed within the running shell's process).
But where can I find the documentation of a particular one?
For instance, for the builtin fc
on Ubuntu Linux, I can get its help by:
> help fc
fc: fc [-e ename] [-lnr] [first] [last] or fc -s [pat=rep] [command]
Display or execute commands from the history list.
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.
....
Another example is the if
expression, on Ubuntu:
> help if
if: if COMMANDS; then COMMANDS; [ elif COMMANDS; then COMMANDS; ]... [ else COMMANDS; ] fi
Execute commands based on conditional.
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What am I missing here?
Asked by user2829759
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Feb 21, 2017, 06:05 AM
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