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. Cheers, David.
