INFO(1)

📦 version 7.1.1, in ubuntu questing

✨ INFO(1) — info 💖

okay so bestie, info is the program that lets you read documents in Info format 📚 it's giving old-school manual energy and honestly it's iconic 💅

🌸 NAME

info - read Info documents

🎀 SYNOPSIS

info [OPTION]... [MENU-ITEM...]

✨ DESCRIPTION

Read documentation in Info format. slay 🦋

💜 Frequently-used options

  • -a, --all — use all matching manuals 🌈
  • -k, --apropos=STRING — look up STRING in all indices of all manuals 🔍
  • -d, --directory=DIR — add DIR to INFOPATH 📂
  • -f, --file=MANUAL — specify the Info manual you wanna visit 📖
  • -h, --help — display this help and exit 🫶
  • --index-search=STRING — go to the node pointed by index entry STRING 🎯
  • -n, --node=NODENAME — specify nodes in the first Info file you visit 🧚
  • -o, --output=FILE — output the selected nodes to FILE 💾
  • --subnodes — recursively output menu items 🌀
  • -v, --variable VAR=VALUE — assign VALUE to the Info variable VAR ⭐
  • --version — display version information and exit 🍓
  • -w, --where, --location — print the physical location of the Info file 📍

okay so the first non-option argument, if you give one, is the menu entry you start from 🫶 info searches for it in all dir files along INFOPATH. if you don't give one, info merges all the dir files and shows you the result, no cap. any leftover arguments get treated as names of menu items relative to the initial node you landed on 💅

for a summary of key bindings, type H inside Info 🦋

🎀 EXAMPLES

info                          # show top-level dir menu
info info-stnd                # show the manual for this Info program
info emacs                    # start at emacs node from top-level dir
info emacs buffers            # select buffers menu entry in emacs manual
info emacs -n Files           # start at Files node within emacs manual
info '(emacs)Files'           # alternative way to start at Files node
info --subnodes -o out.txt emacs  # dump entire emacs manual to out.txt
info -f ./foo.info            # show file ./foo.info, not searching dir

💌 REPORTING BUGS

email bug reports to bug-texinfo@gnu.org, and general questions and discussion to help-texinfo@gnu.org 💜

Texinfo home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ 🌐

Copyright © 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> 👑

this is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. there is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. ✨

🧚 SEE ALSO

the full documentation for info is maintained as a Texinfo manual. if the info program is properly installed at your site, the command

info info

should give you access to the complete manual. (or, if you have Emacs, M-x info will lead to the manual.) 🌈

bestie that's the whole thing, GNU texinfo 7.1.1 from September 2024, you're literally ready to go 💖🫶✨

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