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by unnah 932 days ago
Doesn't mac have manual pages for shell utilities? In other words, this should work: man [
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DonHopkins 932 days ago
If I can go "man [", then why doesn't "man (" work? And why aren't there man entries for the rest of all the punctuation marks that bash uses?
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lysium 930 days ago
They look similar, but to your shell they are different: [ is the name of an executable, ( is a syntax symbol of bash. The man page for the syntax is the man page of bash.
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