Accessing function documentation

manpreet Best Answer 3 years ago

Is there a way to access docstrings in Bash? How does one include a docstring in a function's definition in Bash?

More specifically how do I add and access docstrings to the following function?

    funky() {
    echo "Violent and funky!"
    }

manpreet 3 years ago

If you mean "Bash's equivalent of Python's docstrings" I'm afraid I have to disappoint you that there is no such thing.

However.. I must say that implementing an equivalent of the "docstrings" feature would make for a very interesting homework in order to learn Bash's programmable-completion facility along with how to override a builtin command such as help to display either such "docstrings" or the normal builtin help's output.