Commands tagged info (9)

  • RTFM function

    Some commands have more information on 'info' than in the man pages


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    rtfm() { help $@ || info $@ || man $@ || $BROWSER "http://www.google.com/search?q=$@"; }
    seattlegaucho · 2011-01-05 21:26:51 45
  • vi keybindings with info

    Info has some of the worst keybindings I've ever seen. Being a vim user, I attribute that to emacs influence. Use the --vi-keys option to use some of the vi keybindings, although this won't change all the keybindings. Use the "infokey" program to have more control over info keybindings.


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    info --vi-keys
    kFiddle · 2009-04-11 22:10:08 85
  • shell function to make gnu info act like man.

    I use this alias in my bashrc. The --vi-keys option makes info use vi-like and less-like key bindings.


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    alias info='info --vi-keys'
    eightmillion · 2010-02-16 16:35:17 5
  • Use GNU info with a pager

    This makes GNU info output menu items recursively and pipe its contents to less, allowing one to use GNU info in a manner similar to 'man'.


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    info --subnodes -o - <item> | less
    EvanTeitelman · 2013-06-11 01:23:23 9
  • get the full description of a randomly selected package from the list of installed packages on a debian system

    I put this command on my ~/.bashrc in order to learn something new about installed packages on my Debian/Ubuntu system each time I open a new terminal Show Sample Output


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    dpkg-query --status $(dpkg --get-selections | awk '{print NR,$1}' | grep -oP "^$( echo $[ ( ${RANDOM} % $(dpkg --get-selections| wc -l) + 1 ) ] ) \K.*")
    acavagni · 2019-06-01 13:24:07 112
  • View an info page on a nice interface

    Nice interface for an info page.


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    yelp info:foo
    renich · 2009-03-29 07:14:48 7
  • Read info(1) pages using 'less' instead of GNU Texinfo

    I like man pages, and I like using `less(1)` as my pager. However, most GNU software keeps the manual in the 'GNU Texinfo' format, and I'm not a fan of the info(1) interface. Just give me less. This command will print out the info(1) pages, using the familiar interface of less! Show Sample Output


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    info gpg |less
    StefanLasiewski · 2010-07-01 23:44:15 32
  • Find installed network devices

    Find installed network devices. Show Sample Output


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    sudo lshw -C network
    cantormath · 2012-06-07 10:32:49 6
  • Use GNU info with a pager

    This command is similar to the above, but is much simpler to remember. Sure, it's isn't as precise as the parent command, but most people aren't going to remember those --flags anyways unless you stick it into your .bashrc on every single system that you manage. Show Sample Output


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    info foo |less
    StefanLasiewski · 2013-09-12 16:49:08 8

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list files recursively by size

Display calendar with specific national holidays and week numbers
NB when you run this gcal command in your shell, holidays are highlighted but this highlighting does not show in the sample output (above). To find full details on gcal options: gcal --long-help | less Example for United States, Pennsylvania: gcal -K -q US_PA 2009 # display holidays in USA/Pennsylvania for 2009 (with week numbers) Example for Hong Kong: gcal -K -q HK 2009 # display holidays in Hong Kong for 2009 (with week numbers)

output stats from a running dd command to see its progress
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Convert all .wav to .mp3
Audio convert is a script that uses zenity and lame to transcode virtually any format to any other format provided you have the libraries installed to do so.

looking for files not subversioned
En entornos de desarrollos muchas veces se mezclan ficheros y debemos revisar si algo se nos ha quedado fuera del proyecto. Con esta linea de comando busco todos los ficheros que no sean M ( modificados ) para valorar si tengo que agregarlo al repositorio de subversion. Adem?s siempre se me olvida como usar un condicional con awk para una columna :D

Find partition name using mount point
lsblk | grep mountpoint

c_rehash replacement
When you don't have c_rehash handy. Really simple - if you have a .pem file that doesn't really contain a x509 cert (let's say, newreq.pem), it will create a link, simply called '.0', pointing to that file.

list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

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