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I always forget about the info command, even though it's mentioned in most man pages. So I typed "info bash", and went looking for the "set" command with my al
by godshatter 5y ago
I always forget about the info command, even though it's mentioned in most man pages. So I typed "info bash", and went looking for the "set" command with my almost null knowledge of the info command. It took me a while, but I eventually found it's description under indexes/built-in index/set. It was surprisingly more difficult to find than just looking in the man page, but did take me much less time since I didn't need to skim the whole document to find it. Typing "info info" was actually really helpful, though. Info has a lot more power than I knew about. Typing "i set" while in info brought me right to the set command description. Guess I should learn the tools a bit better.