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List:       fedora-list
Subject:    Re: Permissions, F-16 -
From:       David <bouncingcats () gmail ! com>
Date:       2012-02-29 12:57:31
Message-ID: CAMPXz=q0T4szADDUW=KfzCfx1ArD=66YmyDDZ+jzsAmguo70aw () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 29/02/2012, Tim <ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> Though reading any info file is like trying to read ten pages of
> documentation spread into various different paragraphs spread across a
> hundred pages in a book.  You can go around in circles, not quite
> finding the part that you need to read.

Yeah, there is a lot of good information hidden behind a dated interface.
It is easy though to dump all subnodes into a text file which I find
easier to search.

Examples:

info --subnodes -f tar -n "Top" >example1
info --subnodes -f coreutils -n "File permissions" >example2
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