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? -- Brian.
