Re: -o option is missing from man page and online docs

[Chet Ramey]

Moravetz, Clifford wrote:

> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
>
> Machine: i686
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> OS: cygwin
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> Compiler: i686-pc-cygwin-gcc
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> Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash.exe' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' 
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='cygwin' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-cygwin' 
> -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DRECYCLES_PIDS  -I.  
> -I/home/RLandheer/cygwin-contrib/bash/2.05b-16/bash-2.05b 
> -I/home/RLandheer/cygwin-contrib/bash/2.05b-16/bash-2.05b/include 
> -I/home/RLandheer/cygwin-contrib/bash/2.05b-16/bash-2.05b/lib  -O2
>
> uname output: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 sb-moravetz 1.5.6(0.108/3/2) 2004-01-19 
> 00:43 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin
>
> Machine Type: i686-pc-cygwin
>
>  
>
> Bash Version: 2.05b
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> Patch Level: 0
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> Release Status: release
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>  
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> Description:
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>             The bash man page does not describe the -o (lowercase oh)
>
>             command line option for bash.

The first sentence of the `OPTIONS' section in the manual page reads:

In addition to the single-character shell options documented in the 
description of the set builtin command, bash interprets the following 
options when it is invoked:

and goes on to list the options that work only at invocation time.

The `-o optname' option is documented with the `set' builtin.

Chet