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

[Gergely Nagy]

Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> writes:

> 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?

I don't think it would be. It would actually match my expectations
(spoiled by git, I am).

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