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I am using Git bash on Windows 7. It provides me with a way to use most of the commands that I used to use on the bash shell on my Ubuntu machine. But the man and the info commands do not work. Is there a way to get these (incredible) documentation commands working on the Git bash shell on windows?

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You could use the online documentation.

Linux man pages online & GNU Info Pages

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are there any programs that will connect to these web pages from the command line and display the result? so that I can still type info grep on the shell and get the results there? – Prasanth Jun 10 '11 at 13:45
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@Prasanth perhaps you can do a wget <URL> & then grep it. – Sathya♦ Jun 13 '11 at 4:36
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It may be a bit overkill, but you could download Cygwin which would include bash, man, and info readers like pinfo.

The cygwin installer would let you customize your install to be a pretty small subset of cygwin.

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