Re: Suggest/Wish re. numbered backup

[Bob Proulx]

Paul E Condon wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > You can read more about version sorting in the ls documentation.
> >   info coreutils 'Sorting the output'
> 
> Yes. It is a better solution than what I was suggesting.  I now need
> an excuse for not thinking to look in info coreutils and only looking
> in info ls, which is just a repeat of the man page on my machine. Is
> that because I'm running Debian?

This is a long running problem on Debian systems.  Please see
http://bugs.debian.org/139569 for a longer explaination.

Meanwhile you can locate the documentation by looking for the top
level program invocation page.  Like this:

  info coreutils 'ls invocation'
  info coreutils 'cat invocation'
  info coreutils 'head invocation'
  info coreutils 'sort invocation'

As a workaround to the problem the man pages on Debian Testing/Lenny
systems now points to this in the See Also section of the man page.

Bob