full command line in text readable mode please???

[Will4]

hey guys,

I need to have the output of the command


sudo info coreutil

into a .txt or .doc or any text format to have it read later and learn from it. Can anyone help me please. I am not acquainted with "info" command so i don't know how to output it to a text document.

somebody recommended this


info --subnodes -O info.txt core

which i did and got an endless info.txt file with this


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Stuff like this is all i got, a huge endless info.txt file.
Any help???
Anything wrong???

Please explain for dummy, hehe

[Tim Sharitt]

You can try


zcat /usr/share/info/coreutils.info.gz >coreutils

It will have the package information printed at the top, so it's pretty, but past that is all the information contained in the info page.

[Will4]

can anyone send me the full command line for Ubuntu, (debian)... 'cuz i can't get /usr/share/info/coreutils.info.gz output to a text document!!

any idea how to manage the "info" command to output all the info to a .txt ???

Thanx in advance..

william.wh23@gmail.com

[Will4]

i don't get it!! Sorry.

where does the zcat command send the text to?? dir?? file???

[Tim Sharitt]

i don't get it!! Sorry.

where does the zcat command send the text to?? dir?? file???

The command I gave you will create a file called coreutils in your current working directory.

If I wanted the file to be called coreutils-info and placed in my ~/Documents directory, the command would be


zcat /usr/share/info/coreutils.info.gz >~/Documents/coreutils-info

[Will4]

the same Chinese characters in the whole document!!

any idea?? Thank you so much for your help!!

Any clue on how to have it readable??

[Tim Sharitt]

Just so it's clear, what do you see when you enter


info coreutils

[Pettman]

I'd use redirection to get a textfile. This can be done typing the following into a terminal:
info coreutils > name_of_fileWhere name_of_file is the desired name of the output file. To learn more about redirection and other useful things use:
man bash

[Will4]

hey guys, I did


info coreutils
and of course i get the whole thing in English but my point is. IS there any way i can output it to a text document out of coreutils, in order to keep it in a flash drive for example???

I did


info coreutils > (name_of_file)

and still got these chinese words all over. aushhshh!! what a mess!!