Navigate linux ‘info’ command

The command ‘info’ can provide additional information that isn’t present in the man pages. Unfortunately it isn’t easy to navigate.

A trick is learned is to add the following to your ~/.bashrc file

function infos () {
info --vi-keys --subnodes -o - "$@" | less;
}

Now you can call infos (with an s), to be able to navigate the info page.

Example

$ infos ls

Thanks to Evan Teitelman for pointing this out on unix.stackexchange
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/82357/what-do-the-symbols-displayed-by-ls-f-mean

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