Re: Suggested addition for "help source"

Chet Ramey <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs
Organization ITS, Case Western Reserve University
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2/8/26 11:12 PM, Duncan Roe wrote:
> Hi Chet,
> 
> Can I suggest `help .` and `help source` mention they don't search PATH if
> `shopt -u sourcepath` is in effect?

Sure, that's a reasonable addition.

> I just lost several hours re-discovering that. The shopt had been in my .bashrc
> since forever and I had forgotten about it.

You know, it was in the man page. ;-)

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    [email protected]    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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