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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Issue navigating GNU Info nodes Post 303013192 by bodisha on Friday 16th of February 2018 04:16:53 PM
Old 02-16-2018
Issue navigating GNU Info nodes

Hello... and thanks in advance for in help anyone can offer me

I'm poking around the GNU Info command... It's a lot different from man pages (Including holding much more information) but I'm having issues navigating it... And it's frustrating the hell out of me!

My problem is when I go to do a search in the top level dir node... If I have to do more than a single search, they all fail on the 2nd search! My first search usually works (Unless there's a typo)... But the 2nd search fails regardless! I've tried to search for this page for things I know are on it... But for some reason the 2nd search always fails.

Can someone PLEASE explain to me how to make the search work? I've read through the manual... And I'm not seeing anything about this topic
 

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INSTALL-INFO(1) 						   User Commands						   INSTALL-INFO(1)

NAME
install-info - update info/dir entries SYNOPSIS
install-info [OPTION]... [INFO-FILE [DIR-FILE]] DESCRIPTION
Install or delete dir entries from INFO-FILE in the Info directory file DIR-FILE. OPTIONS
--delete delete existing entries for INFO-FILE from DIR-FILE; don't insert any new entries. --dir-file=NAME specify file name of Info directory file. This is equivalent to using the DIR-FILE argument. --entry=TEXT insert TEXT as an Info directory entry. TEXT should have the form of an Info menu item line plus zero or more extra lines starting with whitespace. If you specify more than one entry, they are all added. If you don't specify any entries, they are determined from information in the Info file itself. --help display this help and exit. --info-file=FILE specify Info file to install in the directory. This is equivalent to using the INFO-FILE argument. --info-dir=DIR same as --dir-file=DIR/dir. --item=TEXT same as --entry TEXT. An Info directory entry is actually a menu item. --quiet suppress warnings. --remove same as --delete. --section=SEC put this file's entries in section SEC of the directory. If you specify more than one section, all the entries are added in each of the sections. If you don't specify any sections, they are determined from information in the Info file itself. --version display version information and exit. REPORTING BUGS
Email bug reports to bug-texinfo@gnu.org, general questions and discussion to help-texinfo@gnu.org. Texinfo home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. There is NO warranty. You may redistribute this software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING. SEE ALSO
The full documentation for install-info is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and install-info programs are properly installed at your site, the command info install-info should give you access to the complete manual. install-info 4.8 December 2004 INSTALL-INFO(1)
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