Re: info info; man info (documentation about info)

[Alejandro Colomar]

On 1/10/23 21:39, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi Gavin,
>
> On 1/10/23 21:37, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 09:14:35PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > > I'm curious about how away from man(7) pages that hypothetical GNU OS is.
> > > Would you use info pages for libc functions?
> > >
> > > So far, I tried to find printf(3) with info(1), but `info printf` brings me
> > > to the documentation for printf(1).  How can I search for a libc function
> > > printf()?
> >
> > Yes, I use the Info glibc manual all the time.  I would look up the
> > documentation of printf by running "info libc printf".  This exact
> > example is in the info-stnd manual, in the Invoking Info node.
>
> I don't have that documentation available.  In which package is it?
>
> $ apt-file find printf | grep -e info -e texi | grep -v gnulib
> gettext: /usr/share/info/autosprintf.info.gz
> libppx-custom-printf-ocaml-dev: 
> /var/lib/ocaml/lintian/libppx-custom-printf-ocaml-dev.info

Ahh, I found it:

$ apt-file find libc | grep info | cut -f1 -d: | sort | uniq | grep 'glibc'
glibc-doc-reference
glibc-source


Interesting.  Thanks!

Cheers,
Alex

> Thanks,
>
> Alex

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