Manual entry for history missing... `man history` [duplicate]

Question

I'm trying to figure out what's going on with my history... but I can't find the manual

history -h returns nothing man history returns a level 8 history manual, not the bash one we all use.

Answer 1

history is one of many bash built-ins, so many they felt listing it out in their man page would bring more harm than good. That said, bash does have its own manual system for built-ins such as fc and test. To access the manual for history, use

help history

in a bash session.

Or get a summary of the command in the ~6000 line bash manual

# Jump to the entry in Ubuntu/Fedora/MacOS
man -P 'less -p "  history \["' bash

Sources:
https://github.com/bminor/bash/blob/master/builtins/history.def
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-History-Builtins.html