Re: Debian glossary?
On Mon 30 Apr 2018 at 10:34:23 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 30 Apr 2018 at 11:16:46 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 10:59:03AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > On Monday 30 April 2018 10:44:56 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > > wooledg:~$ man ls | wc
> > > > 233 911 7823
> > > > wooledg:~$ info coreutils ls | wc
> > > > 835 4551 34791
> > > >
> > > > In this example, the info page is about 4 times as large as the man
> > > > page.
> > >
> > > That is not a fair comparison. The manpage covers one specific piece, a
> > > single utility, where coreutils supposedly covers it all.
> >
> > "info coreutils ls" is just the "ls" part. Please actually try it.
> > (I suggest "info coreutils ls | less" as an alternative to the "info"
> > reader program.)
>
> I stepped through info coreutils ls adding together the numbers of lines
> reported by less and ended up at 908.
>
> info coreutils came up with 18696.
Isn't 18696 the byte count?
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Brian.
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