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who would have ever guessed that findutils have info pages?


From: jidanni
Subject: who would have ever guessed that findutils have info pages?
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 19:27:15 +0800

Gentlemen,
man cat says

SEE ALSO
       tac(1)

       The  full  documentation for cat is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If
       the info and cat programs are properly installed at your site, the com-
       mand

              info coreutils 'cat invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

Same with the rest of coreutils.

But man xargs just says
  SEE ALSO
       find(1),  locate(1),  locatedb(5),  updatedb(1),  fork(2),   execvp(3),
       kill(1), signal(7), Finding Files (on-line in Info, or printed)

Man find says
SEE ALSO
       locate(1), locatedb(5), updatedb(1),  xargs(1),  chmod(1),  fnmatch(3),
       regex(7),  stat(2),  lstat(2), ls(1), printf(3), strftime(3), ctime(3),
       Finding Files (on-line in Info, or printed).



Kindly standardize on the coreutils style. The findutils style is too
cryptic and easily missed.

Also embed
(info "(find) Invoking find"),
(info "(find) Invoking xargs"), etc.
into the man page to make it even easier to get to the info page via
Emacs C-x C-e. And let's hope coreutils will do that too.



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