From: "Damian Yerrick" <NOSP AT Musenet@pineight.8m.com>
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Jude Dashiell wrote:
>
> > A final set up question, I once read a command on comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> > which I used earlier that went out and found all installed info files
and
> > updated the dir. file for me.  Does anyone know the command?
>
> The command is "install-info", but it cannot automatically loop on all
> Info files you have; you need to invoke it separately for every such
> file.

Try something like (in MS command not GNU bash)
for %f in (*.info) do install-info %f
Change the extension and the command after "do" and
you can do interesting things with the "for" command.

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