This file is help.def, from which is created help.c. It implements the builtin "help" in Bash. Copyright (C) 1987-2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU Bash, the Bourne Again SHell. Bash is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. Bash is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Bash; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111 USA. $PRODUCES help.c $BUILTIN help $FUNCTION help_builtin $DEPENDS_ON HELP_BUILTIN $SHORT_DOC 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. $END #include #if defined (HELP_BUILTIN) #include #if defined (HAVE_UNISTD_H) # ifdef _MINIX # include # endif # include #endif #include #include #include "../bashintl.h" #include "../shell.h" #include "../builtins.h" #include "../pathexp.h" #include "common.h" #include "bashgetopt.h" #include #include #ifndef errno extern int errno; #endif static void show_builtin_command_help __P((void)); static void show_longdoc __P((int)); /* Print out a list of the known functions in the shell, and what they do. If LIST is supplied, print out the list which matches for each pattern specified. */ int help_builtin (list) WORD_LIST *list; { register int i; char *pattern, *name; int plen, match_found, sflag; sflag = 0; reset_internal_getopt (); while ((i = internal_getopt (list, "s")) != -1) { switch (i) { case 's': sflag = 1; break; default: builtin_usage (); return (EX_USAGE); } } list = loptend; if (list == 0) { show_shell_version (0); show_builtin_command_help (); return (EXECUTION_SUCCESS); } /* We should consider making `help bash' do something. */ if (glob_pattern_p (list->word->word)) { if (list->next) printf (_("Shell commands matching keywords `")); else printf (_("Shell commands matching keyword `")); print_word_list (list, ", "); printf ("'\n\n"); } for (match_found = 0, pattern = ""; list; list = list->next) { pattern = list->word->word; plen = strlen (pattern); for (i = 0; name = shell_builtins[i].name; i++) { QUIT; if ((strncmp (pattern, name, plen) == 0) || (strmatch (pattern, name, FNMATCH_EXTFLAG) != FNM_NOMATCH)) { printf ("%s: %s\n", name, shell_builtins[i].short_doc); if (sflag == 0) show_longdoc (i); match_found++; } } } if (match_found == 0) { builtin_error (_("no help topics match `%s'. Try `help help' or `man -k %s' or `info %s'."), pattern, pattern, pattern); return (EXECUTION_FAILURE); } fflush (stdout); return (EXECUTION_SUCCESS); } /* By convention, enforced by mkbuiltins.c, if separate help files are being used, the long_doc array contains one string -- the full pathname of the help file for this builtin. */ static void show_longdoc (i) int i; { register int j; char * const *doc; int fd; doc = shell_builtins[i].long_doc; if (doc && doc[0] && *doc[0] == '/' && doc[1] == (char *)NULL) { fd = open (doc[0], O_RDONLY); if (fd == -1) { builtin_error (_("%s: cannot open: %s"), doc[0], strerror (errno)); return; } zcatfd (fd, 1, doc[0]); close (fd); } else for (j = 0; doc[j]; j++) printf ("%*s%s\n", BASE_INDENT, " ", _(doc[j])); } static void show_builtin_command_help () { int i, j; char blurb[36]; printf ( _("These shell commands are defined internally. Type `help' to see this list.\n\ Type `help name' to find out more about the function `name'.\n\ Use `info bash' to find out more about the shell in general.\n\ Use `man -k' or `info' to find out more about commands not in this list.\n\ \n\ A star (*) next to a name means that the command is disabled.\n\ \n")); for (i = 0; i < num_shell_builtins; i++) { QUIT; blurb[0] = (shell_builtins[i].flags & BUILTIN_ENABLED) ? ' ' : '*'; strncpy (blurb + 1, shell_builtins[i].short_doc, 34); blurb[35] = '\0'; printf ("%s", blurb); if (i % 2) printf ("\n"); else for (j = strlen (blurb); j < 35; j++) putc (' ', stdout); } if (i % 2) printf ("\n"); } #endif /* HELP_BUILTIN */