Info (Unix)

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info is a command line utility initially written for use with GNU/Linux and then ported to other Unix-like operating systems. It is a kind of hypertextual, multipage documentation and help viewer working on a terminal, so no GUI is needed; info processes info files, which are Texinfo formatted files, and presents the documentation as a tree, with simple commands to traverse the tree and to follow cross references. For instance

  • n goes to the next page.
  • p goes to the previous page.
  • u goes to the upper page.
  • l takes you to the last(visited) node
  • To follow a cross reference, you can move the cursor on a link (a word preceded by a *) and press enter.

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