On 25 July 2015 at 22:46, Michael Convey <[email protected]> wrote: > The 'man -K term' command is an excellent way to the full text of all man > pages for a given term. I'm trying to find a similar convention for > searching the full text of all info nodes. Can this be done?
Not exactly. You can search in the *indices* for all Info files using the index apropos feature, either with $ info -k term which spits out a list of matches. Or run $ info followed by M-x index-apropos RET term RET Note that the manual indices are just whatever the document author decided to add, so you are relying on them having added a relevant index entry. Alternatively, you can use grep (the low-tech solution): for f in /usr/share/info/*info*gz ; do echo ============ $f ============ ; gzip -cd $f | grep foo ; done
