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$ set frog pets
$ echo $1_$2
frog_pets

man set is not bringing me anything =( neither is which set or whereis set

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set is a bash shell command

If you type man bash and then search for /abef should move to the section that describes set and the various available.

To confirm that you are using a shell built command you can run:

type command

if the message command is a shell builtin is the output, then you can find the help for these types of commands via

help [shell_command]

for example:

help set

As an added bonus you can pipe the output into either more or pager to enable page-by-page scrolling i.e.

help | more

or

help | pager

(with thanks @psusi & @eljunior & @andrewsomething)

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