UPDATE-INFO-DIR(8)

📦 version 7.3, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ UPDATE-INFO-DIR(8) — System Manager's Manual ✨

Okay so this is the manual page for update-info-dir (manual section 8, aka the system admin stuff) 💅

🎀 NAME

update-info-dir — update or create the index file from all installed info files in a directory 🦋

💖 SYNOPSIS

update-info-dir [options] [directory]

🌸 DESCRIPTION

Bestie, this one is lowkey iconic. update-info-dir updates, or creates, the index file dir of available documentation in /usr/share/info/ (that's the default ✨) or in whatever DIRECTORY you give it. The index file info is the directory is usually what info browsers show you on startup, so this is the thing that keeps your docs menu looking fresh 🫶

🔥 OPTIONS

  • -h, --help — pull up the help text and exit 💜

🧚 SEE ALSO

emacs(1), info(1), install-info(1) 🌈

👑 AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others) 💅

Okay, the vibe here is that this page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution specifically, because the original script was designed for the Debian packaging system. So yeah, Debian was the main character 🍓

Bestie, that's the whole thing! UPDATE-INFO-DIR(8) from the System Manager's Manual, with the info ✨ slay ✨ forever 🦋💜

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