Help Command

Overview

Displays list of commands or help about command(s) defined in pattern.

syntax:help [pattern]
arguments: pattern If pattern is specified, help gives detailed information on all commands matching the pattern; otherwise a list of builtins is printed. Pattern can contain wildcards ('*', and '?'). '*' matches any number of characters, '?' matches any character at a given position. Thus, set* matches both set, and setenv commands, while e?? matches env, and any other 3-letter command starting with e, but not echo.

The return status is 0 unless no command matches pattern.
options: (none)

Error Conditions

No Error Conditions defined

Return Codes

0Success
any otherError

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