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

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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