[glug-t] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (INFO)

From: Bharathi Subramanian <sbharathi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: GNU/Linux Users Group - Trichy <glug_t@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, GNU/Linux User Group of TCE <glugot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, VEC-FOSS <vecfoss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:47:12 +0530 (IST)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command
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info - Display documentation in Info format.

Summary: 

Apart from Man pages, some commands comes with a detail manual pages,
called info pages, which is in info format. This info command provides
Menu, Search, Corss-Ref and many other facilities. Press ? to get
on-line info help.

Examples:

$ info  -- List all info pages available in the system.

$ info emacs -- Show Emacs info page. (See man emacs, to feel the 
                 difference)

$ info --show-options gcc -- Show the GCC command line options

$ pinfo libc -- Curses based lynx-style info browser.

Info files location: /usr/share/info/

Read: info info, info pinfo

HTH :)
-- 
Bharathi S

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