[GTALUG] Man and Info Pages

Scott Allen mlxxxp at gmail.com
Thu Jan 6 11:44:24 EST 2022


On Thu, 6 Jan 2022 at 11:28, Giles Orr via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
> I open a man page, I scroll - done.  I opened the
> man page because I wanted to learn about the command whose man page I
> opened - I don't want to have to learn about 'info' before I can learn
> about any other command ...

Well, you do have to learn about 'less' or whatever pager 'man' is
using on your system (default or specified).

However, I agree. I never liked using 'info', mostly for the same
reasons you've given.

-- 
Scott


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