Pádraig Brady wrote: > Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: >> > Is there anyone who's unaware that --help doesn't provide >> > complete documentation? >> >> I would not expect anyone to *not* know that help output is >> abridged. But I would rather have them go straight into 'info' >> than wasting time on 'man', only to be redirected to 'info'. >> >> Usually one looks at the '--help' output first. If we redirect on >> 'man', why not there? >> >> Because man pages are secondary on GNU systems, the offical spot has >> always been info. The redirection is only for convience for old >> timers who still use man. > > While that may be the official line, practically nobody reads info pages, > and if they do it's indirectly through google. > > I'd vote for removing the translation help line unconditionally > (I notice it's not mentioned in man pages) and replace with: > > For complete documentation, run: info coreutils '$cmd invocation'
Seconded.
