Gwern Branwen wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> wrote:
>> Did you see the "real" documentation?
>
> No; when I was younger, I sometimes looked at the info page for
> commands, but invariably they seemed to be useless or copies of the

Please try to reset your misconception, at least for the coreutils.
Though, in general the info documentation for GNU programs is far
superior to the man pages.

> man page, and I wrote them off completely as a strange GNU waste of
> time akin to Guile or other GNU quirks. If length is the problem, how
> about adding '; not perfect shuffle'? 3 words in the places most
> people will look for documentation.

Sorry, but that would be inaccurate, because sometimes (no duplicates),
it does give you a perfect shuffle.



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