cleanup-info8

Usage

Overview

cleanup-info is a Perl script that tries to clean up the mess that bogus install-info(8) may have done. It gathers all sections with the same heading into a single one. It tries to be smart about cases and trailing colon/spaces.
Other clean-ups include removing of empty sections, and squeezing the blank lines (in entries part only).

Order of sections is preserved (the first encountered section counts). Order of entries within a section is preserved.

Please be extremely careful when using this utility - it might not be 100% safe. cleanup-info tries to be careful with your info dir file, but only until it writes it. You should back the file up prior to using this script.

Options

--unsafe

Set some additional possibly useful options.
Warning: the `--unsafe' option may garble an otherwise correct file!

--help

Show the usage message and exit.

--version

Show the version and exit.

Files

/usr/info/dir or <dirname>/dir

The info directory file. The lock file is named the same, with ".lock" suffix.