On Monday 02 January 2017 01:00:56 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 01 January 2017 14:46:30 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I cannot recall ever seeing a more complete information about > > > anything I ever looked up, telling me something that wasn't in the > > > man page. > > > > Compare > > man ls > > and > > info ls > > > > The chapter of ls in coreutils.info is much longer than the man page. > > It gives some background information for the options which are grouped > > by * Which files are listed:: > > * What information is listed:: > > * Sorting the output:: > > * Details about version sort:: > > * General output formatting:: > > * Formatting file timestamps:: > > * Formatting the file names:: > > I believe that is all in my man page on ls, its quite lengthy here on > this wheezy system. If not, then its the exception that proves the rule. > > > That's central GNU homeland, of course. The situation in other regions > > of GNU/Linux varies heavily. > > > > > > Have a nice day :) > > > > Thomas > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
Man ls was written by Richard Stallman, which ought to mean something. It does offer: <quote>Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ls> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) ls invocation'</quote> which surely ought to be enough for anyone. But many commands have a less ideal offering. Lisi
