INSTALL-INFO
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2008
NAME
ginstall-info - update info/dir entries
SYNOPSIS
ginstall-info
[OPTION]... [INFO-FILE [DIR-FILE]]
DESCRIPTION
Add or remove entries in INFO-FILE from the Info directory DIR-FILE.
OPTIONS
- --debug
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report what is being done.
- --delete
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delete existing entries for INFO-FILE from DIR-FILE;
don't insert any new entries.
- --description=TEXT
-
the description of the entry is TEXT; used with
the --name option to become synonymous with the
--entry option.
- --dir-file=NAME
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specify file name of Info directory file;
equivalent to using the DIR-FILE argument.
- --dry-run
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same as --test.
- --entry=TEXT
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insert TEXT as an Info directory entry.
TEXT is written as an Info menu item line followed
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by zero or more extra lines starting with whitespace.
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If you specify more than one entry, all are added.
If you don't specify any entries, they are determined
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from information in the Info file itself.
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When removing, TEXT specifies the entry to remove.
TEXT is only removed as a last resort, if the
entry as determined from the Info file is not present,
and the basename of the Info file isn't found either.
- --help
-
display this help and exit.
- --info-dir=DIR
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same as --dir-file=DIR/dir.
- --info-file=FILE
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specify Info file to install in the directory;
equivalent to using the INFO-FILE argument.
- --item=TEXT
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same as --entry=TEXT.
- --keep-old
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do not replace entries, or remove empty sections.
- --menuentry=TEXT
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same as --name=TEXT.
- --name=TEXT
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the name of the entry is TEXT; used with --description
to become synonymous with the --entry option.
- --no-indent
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do not format new entries in the DIR file.
- --quiet
-
suppress warnings.
- --regex=R
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put this file's entries in all sections that match the
regular expression R (ignoring case).
- --remove
-
same as --delete.
- --remove-exactly
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only remove if the info file name matches exactly;
suffixes such as .info and .gz are not ignored.
- --section=SEC
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put entries in section SEC of the directory.
If you specify more than one section, all the entries
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are added in each of the sections.
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If you don't specify any sections, they are determined
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from information in the Info file itself.
- --section R SEC
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equivalent to --regex=R --section=SEC --add-once.
- --silent
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suppress warnings.
- --test
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suppress updating of DIR-FILE.
- --version
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display version information and exit.
REPORTING BUGS
Email bug reports to bug-texinfo@gnu.org,
general questions and discussion to help-texinfo@gnu.org.
Texinfo home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2008 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
ginstall-info
is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
info
and
ginstall-info
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
-
info ginstall-info
should give you access to the complete manual.
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- REPORTING BUGS
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- COPYRIGHT
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- SEE ALSO
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