ginstall-info (1) Linux Manual Page
install-info – update info/dir entries
Synopsis
install-info [,OPTION/]… [,INFO-FILE /[,DIR-FILE/]]Description
Add or remove entries in INFO-FILE from the Info directory DIR-FILE. INFO-FILE and DIR-FILE are required unless the –info-file or –dir-file (or –info-dir) options are given, respectively.Options
- –add-once
- add only to first matching section, not all.
- –align=,COL/
- start description of new entries at column COL.
- –calign=,COL/
- format second and subsequent description lines to start at column COL.
- –debug
- report what is being done.
- –delete
- delete existing entries for INFO-FILE from DIR-FILE; don’t insert any new entries.
- –defsection=,TEXT/
- like –section, but only use TEXT if no sections are present in INFO-FILE (replacing "Miscellaneous").
- –description=,TEXT/
- the description of the entry is TEXT; used with the –name option to become synonymous with the –entry option.
- –dir-file=,NAME/
- specify file name of Info directory file; equivalent to using the DIR-FILE argument.
- –dry-run
- same as –test.
- –entry=,TEXT/
- insert TEXT as an Info directory entry, overriding any corresponding entry from DIR-FILE. TEXT is written as an Info menu item line followed
- by zero or more extra lines starting with whitespace.
- If you specify more than one entry, all are added. If you don’t specify any entries, they are determined
- from information in the Info file itself.
- from information in the Info file itself.
- –help
- display this help and exit.
- –info-dir=,DIR/
- same as –dir-file=,DIR//dir.
- –info-file=,FILE/
- specify Info file to install in the directory; equivalent to using the INFO-FILE argument.
- –item=,TEXT/
- same as –entry=,TEXT/.
- –keep-old
- do not replace entries, or remove empty sections.
- –maxwidth, –max-width=,COL/
- wrap description at column COL.
- –menuentry=,TEXT/
- same as –name=,TEXT/.
- –name=,TEXT/
- the name of the entry is TEXT; used with –description to become synonymous with the –entry option.
- –no-indent
- do not format new entries in the DIR file.
- –quiet
- suppress warnings.
- –regex=,R/
- put this file’s entries in all sections that match the regular expression R (ignoring case).
- –remove
- same as –delete.
- –remove-exactly
- only remove if the info file name matches exactly; suffixes such as .info and .gz are not ignored.
- –section=,SEC/
- put entries in section SEC of the directory. If you specify more than one section, all the entries
- are added in each of the sections.
- If you don’t specify any sections, they are determined
- from information in the Info file itself;
- if nothing is available there, the –defsection value is used; if that is not specified, the final default is "Miscellaneous".
- –section R SEC
- equivalent to –regex=,R/ –section=,SEC/ –add-once.
- –silent
- suppress warnings.
- –test
- suppress updating of DIR-FILE.
- –version
- display version information and exit.
Reporting Bugs
Email bug reports to bug-texinfo [at] gnu.org, general questions and discussion to help-texinfo [at] gnu.org.Texinfo home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/
Copyright
Copyright © 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
See Also
The full documentation for install-info is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and install-info programs are properly installed at your site, the command- info install-info
should give you access to the complete manual.