Bug#814743: [regression?] output of info --output without argument
On 2016-02-15 11:07:00 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> (please keep Cc)
>
> it seems that info 6.1 lost the ability to dump the start page
> into an output file:
>
> $ info --output foobar coreutils
>
> properly dumps the coreutils page into foobar, but
>
> $ info --output foobar
>
> does *not* dump the dir/root node.
>
> This breaks completion in some shells, as they use
>
> info --output -
>
> to determine the possible nodes.
Note: I have not tried 6.0, which I never used due to the broken
behavior with subdirs:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=792328
But up to texinfo 5.2 at least, it seems that
info
and
info -o <file>
were consistent.
Note also that the -o option could make info 5.2 crash:
$ info -o - -
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) info -o - -
I don't know what this is supposed to do, but it should not crash.
I've just found that due to a typo on the command line (I had
written "info -output -").
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