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If I can go "man [", then why doesn't "man (" work? And why aren't there man entries for the rest of all the punctuation marks that bash uses?
by DonHopkins 3y ago
If I can go "man [", then why doesn't "man (" work? And why aren't there man entries for the rest of all the punctuation marks that bash uses?
- lysium 3y agoThey look similar, but to your shell they are different: [ is the name of an executable, ( is a syntax symbol of bash. The man page for the syntax is the man page of bash.