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CLEANUP-INFO

Section: dpkg utilities (8)
Updated: November 1999
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NAME

cleanup-info - clean up the mess that bogus install-info may have done  

SYNOPSIS

cleanup-info [--help] [--unsafe] [--version] [--] [<dirname>]  

DESCRIPTION

cleanup-info is a Perl script that tries to clean up the mess that bogus install-info 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.  

OPTIONS

--help
Output the help screen and exit successfully.
--unsafe
Set some additional possibly useful options.
Warning: the `--unsafe' option may garble an otherwise correct file!
--version
Output version and exit successfully.
 

FILES

/usr/info/dir or <dirname>/dir
The info directory file. The lock file is named the same, with ".lock" suffix.
 

BUGS

Probably many.  

SEE ALSO

install-info(8), info(1).  

AUTHOR

Copyright (C) 1996 Kim-Minh Kaplan.

This is free software; see the GNU General Public Licence version 2 or later for copying conditions. There is NO warranty.


 

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