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📖 NAME

info - read Info documents

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
📂 Show top-level directory	info	Display the main menu of all Info documents
📘 Show a manual's top node	info emacs	Open the Emacs manual at its top-level menu
🔍 Navigate to a specific node	info emacs -n Files	Jump directly to the "Files" node inside Emacs manual
📄 Dump entire manual	info --subnodes -o out.txt emacs	Recursively output the whole manual to a file
⚙️ Show command-line options	info --show-options emacs	Go straight to the node describing command line options
🔎 Search all indices	info -k printf	Look up "printf" in all indices of all manuals
📁 View a local Info file	info -f ./foo.info	Open a specific Info file without searching the directory

📋 SYNOPSIS

info [OPTION]... [MENU-ITEM...]

ℹ️ DESCRIPTION

Read documentation in Info format. 📘

🔧 Frequently-used options

• -a, --all — use all matching manuals 🔄
• -k, --apropos=STRING — look up STRING in all indices of all manuals 🔍
• -d, --directory=DIR — add DIR to INFOPATH 📁
• -f, --file=MANUAL — specify Info manual to visit 📖
• -h, --help — display this help and exit ❓
• --index-search=STRING — go to node pointed by index entry STRING 🎯
• -n, --node=NODENAME — specify nodes in first visited Info file 🌳
• -o, --output=FILE — output selected nodes to FILE 📤
• -O, --show-options, --usage — go to command-line options node ⚙️
• --subnodes — recursively output menu items 📑
• -v, --variable VAR=VALUE — assign VALUE to Info variable VAR ⚡
• --version — display version information and exit 🏷️
• -w, --where, --location — print physical location of Info file 📍

The first non-option argument, if present, is the menu entry to start from; it is searched for in all 'dir' files along INFOPATH. If it is not present, info merges all 'dir' files and shows the result. Any remaining arguments are treated as the names of menu items relative to the initial node visited. For a summary of key bindings, type H within Info. ⌨️

💡 EXAMPLES

info

📂 show top-level dir menu

info info-stnd

📘 show the manual for this Info program

info emacs

🗂️ start at emacs node from top-level dir

info emacs buffers

📋 select buffers menu entry in emacs manual

info emacs -n Files

📁 start at Files node within emacs manual

info '(emacs)Files'

📄 alternative way to start at Files node

info --show-options emacs

⚙️ start at node with emacs' command line options

info --subnodes -o out.txt emacs

📤 dump entire emacs manual to out.txt

info -f ./foo.info

📁 show file ./foo.info, not searching dir

🐛 REPORTING BUGS

Email bug reports to bug-texinfo AT gnu.org, general questions and discussion to help-tex‐ info AT gnu.org. Texinfo home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/

©️ COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

📚 SEE ALSO

The full documentation for info is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info program is properly installed at your site, the command

info info

should give you access to the complete manual. (Or, if you have Emacs, M-x info will lead to the manual.)

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