Find Help on Bash Built-in Commands

Finding help or documentation on BASH built-in commands can be a little bit of a trudge. In this video we use the command help to find documentation on BASH built-in commands. So many Enterprise Linux vendors miss this from their training and I am here to correct that issue

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[JeffSmithInStJacobs]

Generally I prefer shorter videos, although some topics merit longer discussions. One feature of theurbanpenguin, though, is now and then he'll throw something at us that I've never heard of before, but now find incredibly useful. One example is using "^" to modify a previous command (eg. ^status^restart^ ). I now use that dozens of times each day. Thanks, Andrew!

[Maniac__]

I really hope you teach CompTIA Linux+, RHCSA, RHCE, etc etc - I'm amazed at your youtube content and lack of following - you make this all so easy and break down a lot of the things that are just glossed over for the beginners, making the whole *nix platform "impossible" for them - I love that you take the time to inform people and inspire others to pursue the technology, rather than just starting at the end of an incredibly complex scenario and just talking to it - we need more people like you, and more lessons like this, to get a larger adoption of things that just seem "black magic" or "off limits" - super easy, THANK YOU!

[justme-izec]

that was fantastic. I like the videos where you go through entire series of commands. Like the ones in your exam preparation series quite a bit. This was superb work still.
I am yearning for Linux videos that introduce small to mid-size projects that beginners can do to use their Linux skills. I sincerely want to use what I learn but cannot think of what to do.

[cleightthejw]

I like videos appropriate to the issue. And some might very well may need a number of videos covering different parts of the issue.

Though I do like truly informative and educating videos with those that get to the point in pretty quick time and do NOT unnecessarily repeat things.

You videos are pretty good. I do look forward to them :)

[massikherfallah]

Is there a way to have more help details of the options of a command? Maybe with examples

[LVusaAPI]

We like any video you are creating Andrew

[umairbalani]

Really good video regarding small but important topic.

[_bhimsainik_gaurav]

You are doing a wonderful job by giving Knowledge many thanks

[vsExtra]

Short but dedicated to a very well designated piece of Linux are better. Thank you for this episode)

[NoEggu]

I used to struggle with some bash built-ins. And the bash man page is an ordeal, for certain built-ins. For example, try locating the "if" keyword within the bash man page.
Or try the bash man page for the "command" built-in. You get a blizzard of matches.

I did finally learn about the help command. It does, however, sometimes often different wording than what is in the bash man page.

And before I discovered that "help" would list all of the shell built-ins, I discovered that the following command lists all of the shell built-ins:
$ enable -a

If there is a way to jump to the part of the bash man page where the built-ins are documented, I would appreciate learning how to get there.

I also discovered that some built-ins also have commands on disk. For example, my MX Linux (Debian) distro has a /bin/ls executable.
Is it there for backwards compatibility to ensure no failures with old scripts, from before "ls" became a built-in? Was there a time when "ls" not a built-in, and only /bin/ls existed?

[mb_mobile]

Shorter videos.

However lengthier videos are fine if it doesn't make logical sense to create a series of smaller videos for a particular topic.

[BarcaLS]

Short topics and movies are better, just a pills of knowledge :)

[neelojp]

thank you so much :-)... Short vidoes are good, so short vidoes are good also for you for youtube ads, from 30min video create 3x10min video with part1..3. so for us is good and for you too

[MartinsTalbergs]

Topic: running linux on phone? Are we there yet?