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has caused the Debian Bug report #235517,
regarding findutils: info docs for "xargs" and "locate" are hard to find
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Package: findutils
Version: 4.1.20-3
Severity: normal
Hi,
It's difficult to access the info documentation for the "xargs"
and "locate" commands, though "find" seems to be okay (apparently
by accident),
$ info find
File: find.info, Node: Top, Next: Introduction, Up: (dir)
This file documents the GNU utilities for finding files that match
certain criteria and performing various actions on them. This is
edition 4.1.20, for `find' version 4.1.20.
File: find.info, Node: Top, Next: Introduction, Up: (dir)
...
$ info xargs
File: *manpages*, Node: xargs, Up: (dir)
...
$ info locate
File: *manpages*, Node: locate, Up: (dir)
...
In other words, there should be a top-level info dir entry for
each of the major findutils commands, ie, "find", "xargs", and
"locate".
Thanks,
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Jeff Sheinberg
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Debian Release: testing/sarge
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Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24-2
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages findutils depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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Version: 4.2.20-2
On 2005-06-11 Andreas Metzler <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2005-01-29 James Youngman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> This problem is fixed in findutils-4.2.15, where the info file now says:-
>> INFO-DIR-SECTION Basics
>> START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
>> * Finding files: (find). Operating on files matching certain criteria.
>> END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
>> INFO-DIR-SECTION Individual utilities
>> START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
>> * find: (find)Invoking find. Finding and acting on files.
>> * locate: (find)Invoking locate. Finding files in a database.
>> * updatedb: (find)Invoking updatedb. Building the locate database.
>> * xargs: (find)Invoking xargs. Operating on many files.
>> END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
>> This file documents the GNU utilities for finding files that match
>> certain criteria and performing various operations on them.
> Which currently does not help us at all because of
> http://bugs.debian.org/139569
> I'll keep this in mind as fixed-upstream, waiting for fix in Debian's
> install-info.
Hello,
I am now marking this bug as closed in Debian since at least in sid
the switch to GNU install-info has happened. "info xargs" now works as
expected.
cu andreas
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