Install and Use pinfo for Colorful Info Pages on Linux and Unix

Install pinfo

You can install pinfo on various Linux and Unix‑like systems as follows:

Debian/Ubuntu : # apt-get install pinfo FreeBSD :

# cd /usr/ports/misc/pinfo && make install clean

or # sudo pkg install pinfo CentOS/RHEL 8.x and Fedora : # sudo dnf install pinfo Arch Linux : # sudo pacman -S pinfo OpenSUSE/SUSE Enterprise Linux : # sudo zypper in pinfo macOS (with Homebrew) :

# brew install pinfo

How to use the pinfo command

Syntax is simple: pinfo page pinfo command

To read a Bash info page with the standard info command: # info bash Then view the same page with color using pinfo:

# pinfo bash

You can create an alias so that info automatically invokes pinfo by adding the following line to your ~/.bashrc: alias info='pinfo' Navigation keys within pinfo:

N – go to the next page

P – go to the previous page

U – return to the last visited page

Press Enter on a cross‑reference (words starting with *) to follow the link

Q – quit

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Summary

For users of Linux, FreeBSD, and other Unix‑like systems, pinfo provides a friendly, console‑based viewer for Texinfo documentation with color highlighting. It offers several options; see its manual page for more details.