[systemd-devel] [PATCH] systemctl: Implement "info" and "doc" commands, similar to "man"

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 31.05.12 12:56, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbyszek at in.waw.pl) wrote:

> 
> On 05/31/2012 12:40 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > I'd be open to rename "systemctl man" to "systemctl doc" too, if people
> > want this, if we make it cover both man and info. Not sure I like "doc"
> > too much though. Maybe we can find another name? Suggestions? The reason
> > I picked "man" in the first place is that it is kinda an obvious choice
> > and man is much more ubiquititous than info.
> 'help' seems to be used -- e.g. 'git help rebase'.

We already have "systemctl help", which is equivalent to "systemctl
--help".

I wonder though whether it would make sense to make "systemctl help"
with params work as before but with params take over the role of
"systemctl man"? Would that be confusing?

Lennart

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