• SpicySquid@lemmy.ml
    50·
    1 year ago

    Well… I guess I have been living under a rock. Today is the first time to have heard of info. I have been using man for well over 2 decades now.

    • palordrolap@kbin.social
      10·
      1 year ago

      Surprising you haven't come across a man page that basically says "We couldn't be bothered putting everything in here, check out the info page on it instead."

      I feel like I find myself on one of those every 6 months or so.

      • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
        2·
        1 year ago

        That's funny, I had the opposite experience. When I found out that info was the GNU projects recommended way of documentation, I was all on board. Then I tried using it, and it couldn't find most CLI software I used. So I downloaded the texinfo archives… and that still lacked probably 50% of the commands I tried to look up.

        Then I searched up how to get info pages for this or that tool, and someone on StackOverflow had said that it was woefully incomplete and outdated at this point.

        I think I'll give it another try and report back