On Thursday, November 17, 2016 04:27:54 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > The Linux man pages are good, usually. The GNU man pages are atrocious. > They even admit it, right in their man pages. They (as a project, as a > whole) *hate* man pages and only write a stub that doesn't even cover > all of the basics. Then they tell you that the real documentation is > their GNU-specific "info" page, and you have to go learn an entirely > new program for reading GNU documentation vs. every other program's > documentation.
And, with some frequency, the info pages contain the exact same information as the man pages.