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While redirecting info bash > file.info on Ubuntu, I get an emptya file.info file with just the error -:

info: No menu item 'bash' in node '(dir)Top'

I tried to look at the location of the info page by using info bash -w which shows

*manpages*

I also could notnot find bash info page under /usr/share/info but foundI did find it under /usr/share/man/man1.

However, I tried info find > file.info (find command had an info page under /usr/share/info) which was successfulsuccessful.

Also info bash works fine.

My system - Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS with the kernel 5.11.0-25-generic

Kindly help.

While redirecting info bash > file.info , I get an empty file.info file with the error -

info: No menu item 'bash' in node '(dir)Top'

I tried to look at the location of the info page by using info bash -w which shows

*manpages*

I also could not find bash info page under /usr/share/info but found under /usr/share/man/man1.

However, I tried info find > file.info (find command had an info page under /usr/share/info) which was successful.

Also info bash works fine.

My system - Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS with the kernel 5.11.0-25-generic

Kindly help.

While redirecting info bash > file.info on Ubuntu, I get a file.info file with just the error:

info: No menu item 'bash' in node '(dir)Top'

I tried to look at the location of the info page by using info bash -w which shows

*manpages*

I also could not find bash info page under /usr/share/info but I did find it under /usr/share/man/man1.

However, I tried info find > file.info (find command had an info page under /usr/share/info) which was successful.

Also info bash works fine.

My system - Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS with the kernel 5.11.0-25-generic

Kindly help.

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Redirecting output of info command

While redirecting info bash > file.info , I get an empty file.info file with the error -

info: No menu item 'bash' in node '(dir)Top'

I tried to look at the location of the info page by using info bash -w which shows

*manpages*

I also could not find bash info page under /usr/share/info but found under /usr/share/man/man1.

However, I tried info find > file.info (find command had an info page under /usr/share/info) which was successful.

Also info bash works fine.

My system - Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS with the kernel 5.11.0-25-generic

Kindly help.