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["A. Eibach" <1384416@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, this one-liner has to do the trick for me, until this is fixed
downstream:

#!/bin/bash
[[ $1 == "" ]] || info Coreutils "$1 invocation"

Wish this could be made an alias, but this is impossible since the
variable is _inside_ instead of at EOL

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Title:
  coreutils 'info command' broken

Status in The Gnu Core Utilities:
  Unknown
Status in “coreutils” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Try the following on Ubuntu (or one of its flavors) and tell me what
  you see:

  $ info coreutils 'cat invocation'

  Should give you the *detailed* cat manual. However,  you will in fact
  land on "2.14 'coreutils' Multi-call binary" in the documentation. Now
  idea yet how to fix this.

  Great job. Seems the bug they reported on Debian mailing list on 9/11
  (2014)

  https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-
  dist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg1256146.html

  ... has now made its way into the Ubuntu version of coreutils as well.

  By the way,  isn't that a great comment again??

  "though downstream 8.23 could be tweaked to avoid this issue."

  Cool. They've broken something that worked perfectly _for years_ and
  all the user gets is "yeah, 8.23 'could be tweaked'". If only he had
  said _how_ to tweak it!! But apparently the commenter was way too lazy
  to write one more line.

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