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Re: Bugs in Cygnus Tools bash


Scheinert Frank writes:
> 
> 1st Bug

> myPrompt>man man
> bash: man: command not found

USER ERROR: 
    you didn't install the man package

> Finally, the bash itself doesn't know the getopts function

USER ERROR:

% help help
help: help [-s] [pattern ...]
    Display helpful information about builtin commands.  If PATTERN is
    specified, gives detailed help on all commands matching PATTERN,
    otherwise a list of the builtins is printed.  The -s option
    restricts the output for each builtin command matching PATTERN to
    a short usage synopsis.

% help getopts
getopts: getopts optstring name [arg]
    Getopts is used by shell procedures to parse positional parameters.
    .............. 

HINT:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Norman

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