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GNU
info
accepts several options to control the initial node being viewed, and to
specify which directories to search for info
files. The following is a template showing an invocation of GNU info
from the shell.
info [-- option-name option-value] menu-item ...
The following option-names
are available when invoking info
from the shell.
-
--directory directory-path
-
-d directory-path
-
Adds directory-path
to the list of directory paths searched when Info needs to find a file.
You may issue --directory
multiple times; once for each directory which contains info files.
-
-
Alternatively, you may specify
a value for the environment variable, INFOPATH;
if --directory
is not given, the value of INFOPATH
is used. The value of INFOPATH
is a colon separated list of directory names. If you do not supply INFOPATH
or --directory-path,
a default path is used.
-
-
-
--file filename
-
-f filename
-
Specifies a particular info
file to visit. Instead of visiting the file, dir,
info
will start with (filename)
Top as the first
file and node.
-
-
-
--node nodename
-
-n nodename
-
Specifies a particular node
to visit in the initial file loaded. This is especially useful in conjunction
with --file.
Of course, you can specify both the file and node in a --node
command; but dont forget to escape the open and close parentheses from
the shell as in: info
--node (emacs)Buffers.
-
-
You can specify --node
multiple times. For an interactive Info session, each nodename
is visited in its own window. For a non-interactive Info (such as when
--output
is given), each node-name
is processed
sequentially.
-
-
-
--output filename
-
-o filename
-
Specify filename
as the name of a file to output to. Each node that Info visits will be
output to filename
instead of interactively viewed. A value of -
for filename specifies
the standard output.
-
-
-
--subnodes
-
This option only has meaning
given in conjunction with --output.
It means to recursively output the nodes appearing in the menus of each
node being output. Menu items which resolve to external info files are
not output, and neither are menu items which are members of an index. Each
node is only output once.
-
-
-
--help
-
-h
-
Produces a relatively brief
description of the available info
options.
-
-
-
--version
-
Prints the version information
of info
and exits.
-
-
-
menu-item
-
Remaining arguments to info
are treated as the names of menu items. The first argument would be a menu
item in the initial node visited, while the second argument would be a
menu item in the first arguments node. You can easily move to the node
of your choice by specifying the menu names which describe the path to
that node, as in the following example.
info emacs buffers
-
This input example selects the
menu item Emacs
in the node (dir)Top,
and then selects the menu item Buffers
in the node (emacs)Top.
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