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bash actually has a pretty good man page, too. Not quite OpenBSD quality, but far superior to most GNU man pages ("The actual documentation is maintained as a TeXinfo manual. If the `info` command is properly installed, as it should be on any installation of the GNU operating system (of which Linux is only a very small and insignificant part), then the real documentation is available via the following command: `info`…
Oh, gods, the smug info message. That, more than anything anyone ever said or did, gave me negative feelings about GNU. I mean, I still love GNU for the good it's done in the world, but that broken-by-design man page for every GNU project is hateful and nearly undoes all of my good feelings about GNU. Thankfully, I don't see that message anymore. I'm not sure if GNU fixed it, or if downstream distros fixed it, but so…
Re: Humble Book Bundle: Unix
#131I'm willing to bet that Debian fleshes out the man pages. At the very least, they tend to write man pages for software that doesn't have them, so I wouldn't be surprised if they did the same for GNU software.