On Mon, Dec 29, 2025 at 01:29:04PM +0100, Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Hi, > > While I can process standard info output in a pipe, I cannot do so with > a manpage. > > To reproduce: > > $ LANG=C info info | head > ⇒ first 10 lines of info page > > $ LANG=C info man | head > info: No menu item 'man' in node '(dir)Top' > > But plain > > $ LANG=C info man > > shows the manpage for man, with "No menu item 'man' in node '(dir)Top'" > shown in the echo area. > > Best wishes, > Arne
I notice that the behaviour is different with the current development version, and is more broken: "info man | head" displays the first half of the manpage and then freezes (at least typing C-c kills the program). I will look at revising the info program so that piping the output to a file works with a wider combination of options.
