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diff --git a/Doc/help/whence b/Doc/help/whence index 5ef016295..9f39fe7d6 100644 --- a/Doc/help/whence +++ b/Doc/help/whence @@ -2,55 +2,55 @@ whence [ -vcwfpamsS ] [ -x num ] name ... For each name, indicate how it would be interpreted if used as a command name. - If name is not an alias, built-in command, external command, - shell function, hashed command, or a reserved word, the exit - status shall be non-zero, and -- if -v, -c, or -w was passed -- - a message will be written to standard output. (This is differ- - ent from other shells that write that message to standard er- + If name is not an alias, built-in command, external command, + shell function, hashed command, or a reserved word, the exit + status shall be non-zero, and -- if -v, -c, or -w was passed -- + a message will be written to standard output. (This is differ- + ent from other shells that write that message to standard er- ror.) - whence is most useful when name is only the last path component - of a command, i.e. does not include a `/'; in particular, pat- - tern matching only succeeds if just the non-directory component + whence is most useful when name is only the last path component + of a command, i.e. does not include a `/'; in particular, pat- + tern matching only succeeds if just the non-directory component of the command is passed. -v Produce a more verbose report. - -c Print the results in a csh-like format. This takes + -c Print the results in a csh-like format. This takes precedence over -v. - -w For each name, print `name: word' where word is one of - alias, builtin, command, function, hashed, reserved or - none, according as name corresponds to an alias, a - built-in command, an external command, a shell function, + -w For each name, print `name: word' where word is one of + alias, builtin, command, function, hashed, reserved or + none, according as name corresponds to an alias, a + built-in command, an external command, a shell function, a command defined with the hash builtin, a reserved word, - or is not recognised. This takes precedence over -v and + or is not recognised. This takes precedence over -v and -c. - -f Causes the contents of a shell function to be displayed, - which would otherwise not happen unless the -c flag were + -f Causes the contents of a shell function to be displayed, + which would otherwise not happen unless the -c flag were used. - -p Do a path search for name even if it is an alias, re- + -p Do a path search for name even if it is an alias, re- served word, shell function or builtin. - -a Do a search for all occurrences of name throughout the - command path. Normally only the first occurrence is + -a Do a search for all occurrences of name throughout the + command path. Normally only the first occurrence is printed. - -m The arguments are taken as patterns (pattern characters - should be quoted), and the information is displayed for + -m The arguments are taken as patterns (pattern characters + should be quoted), and the information is displayed for each command matching one of these patterns. - -s If a pathname contains symlinks, print the symlink-free + -s If a pathname contains symlinks, print the symlink-free pathname as well. - -S As -s, but if the pathname had to be resolved by follow- - ing multiple symlinks, the intermediate steps are + -S As -s, but if the pathname had to be resolved by follow- + ing multiple symlinks, the intermediate steps are printed, too. The symlink resolved at each step might be anywhere in the path. - -x num Expand tabs when outputting shell functions using the -c + -x num Expand tabs when outputting shell functions using the -c option. This has the same effect as the -x option to the functions builtin. |