update-info-dir(8)

update-info-dir8

Update or create index file from all installed info files in directory

Usage

update-info-dir [options] [directory]

Overview

Update, or create, the index file dir of available documentation in /usr/share/info/ (the default) or in given DIRECTORY. The index file info is the directory is usually presented by info browsers on startup.

Options

-h,--help

Display help and exit.

Releases

8 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 6.0
  2. 7–13

--help since Debian 7 (Wheezy); -h since Debian 7 (Wheezy).

Author

This manual page was written by Norbert Preining <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original script was designed for Debian packaging system.

From install-info 7.1.1-1+b1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.