Permissions, F-16 -

David bouncingcats at gmail.com
Wed Feb 29 12:57:31 UTC 2012


On 29/02/2012, Tim <ignored_mailbox at 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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