A Gnu info viewer based on cat and less

info.sh

#!/bin/sh

try() {
        file=$1
        echo $file
        if [ -f $file-1 -o -f $file-1.gz ]
        then
                # there must be a better way of doing this
                gzip -fdc `ls -f1 $file-* |
                                sed -e 's/.*\.info-\([0-9]*\)/\1 &/' |
                                sort -n |
                                sed -e 's/[0-9]* //'` |
                        less
                exit
        elif [ -f $file -o -f $file.gz ]
        then
                less $file*
                exit
        fi
}

k=$1
for top in usr usr/local opt
do
        for sub in 'info' '*/info' '*/info/*'
        do
                for leaf in $k $k.info
                do
                        try /$top/$sub/$leaf
                done
        done
done
echo "info for \"$1\" not found" 1>&2
exit 1