Re: Possible Typo for "Set" Section of Bash Reference Manual

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/6/24 8:32 PM, John wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I believe the Bash Reference Manual is missing a key note for using "set -o".
>
> On the man page for "bash" 
> (https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bash.html), the following line is 
> present
>
>   * If *-o* is supplied with no /option-name/, the values of the current
>     options are printed. If *+o* is supplied with no /option-name/, a
>     series of *set* commands to recreate the current option settings is
>     displayed on the standard output.
>
> On the corresponding section for "Set" in the Bash Reference Manual 
> (https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Set-Builtin.html), 
> that line of text is *not present*.

Thanks for the report. The devel branch versions of the man page and the
info file have identical text describing this mode.

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