Summary

I was curious about the difference in the amount of documentation available on my Fedora 9 system, and the difference between the info pages and the man pages. I wrote a script that found every executable in /bin, /usr/bin, /sbin and /usr/sbin that had both a man page and an info page, and compared number of lines for each executable's man and info pages. I ignored any executable that didn't have a man page or info page, and I ignored all blank lines in the pages, for comparison.

Results

The following have larger info pages:
300577 more lines total
172 programs with longer info pages, average 1747.54 more lines/document

GET (129 lines vs 99 lines) +30 lines
a2p (5338 lines vs 116 lines) +5222 lines
a2ps (5338 lines vs 197 lines) +5141 lines
ac (465 lines vs 120 lines) +345 lines
accept (55 lines vs 38 lines) +17 lines
aclocal (465 lines vs 42 lines) +423 lines
ar (312 lines vs 192 lines) +120 lines
as (14394 lines vs 686 lines) +13708 lines
aspell (5038 lines vs 240 lines) +4798 lines
autoconf (122 lines vs 68 lines) +54 lines
autoheader (70 lines vs 65 lines) +5 lines
autom4te (197 lines vs 102 lines) +95 lines
automake (134 lines vs 96 lines) +38 lines
autopoint (39 lines vs 31 lines) +8 lines
autoreconf (98 lines vs 83 lines) +15 lines
autoscan (46 lines vs 43 lines) +3 lines
bash (7390 lines vs 4359 lines) +3031 lines
bc (737 lines vs 652 lines) +85 lines
bison (6913 lines vs 127 lines) +6786 lines
cal (26923 lines vs 37 lines) +26886 lines
card (62 lines vs 39 lines) +23 lines
cat (50 lines vs 48 lines) +2 lines
chgrp (69 lines vs 60 lines) +9 lines
chown (127 lines vs 86 lines) +41 lines
chroot (44 lines vs 29 lines) +15 lines
clear (82 lines vs 14 lines) +68 lines
co (432 lines vs 317 lines) +115 lines
cp (260 lines vs 106 lines) +154 lines
cpio (394 lines vs 243 lines) +151 lines
cpp (4089 lines vs 586 lines) +3503 lines
csplit (81 lines vs 52 lines) +29 lines
cut (64 lines vs 54 lines) +10 lines
cvs (1989 lines vs 1885 lines) +104 lines
date (743 lines vs 108 lines) +635 lines
dc (292 lines vs 220 lines) +72 lines
dd (184 lines vs 100 lines) +84 lines
df (118 lines vs 71 lines) +47 lines
diff (3810 lines vs 224 lines) +3586 lines
dirmngr (924 lines vs 287 lines) +637 lines
dirmngr-client (924 lines vs 79 lines) +845 lines
dmp (65 lines vs 22 lines) +43 lines
du (173 lines vs 96 lines) +77 lines
dvips (665 lines vs 298 lines) +367 lines
echo (56 lines vs 43 lines) +13 lines
ed (1043 lines vs 412 lines) +631 lines
emacs (36572 lines vs 384 lines) +36188 lines
env (41 lines vs 31 lines) +10 lines
expr (142 lines vs 77 lines) +65 lines
file (357 lines vs 311 lines) +46 lines
fixps (54 lines vs 50 lines) +4 lines
flex (6233 lines vs 106 lines) +6127 lines
flock (165 lines vs 64 lines) +101 lines
fmt (57 lines vs 43 lines) +14 lines
free (40 lines vs 29 lines) +11 lines
g++ (33099 lines vs 10360 lines) +22739 lines
gawk (19025 lines vs 1314 lines) +17711 lines
gcc (33099 lines vs 10360 lines) +22739 lines
gdb (20801 lines vs 151 lines) +20650 lines
gettext (13418 lines vs 47 lines) +13371 lines
gettextize (129 lines vs 39 lines) +90 lines
gfortran (10527 lines vs 566 lines) +9961 lines
gftype (92 lines vs 34 lines) +58 lines
gpg (2901 lines vs 1949 lines) +952 lines
gpg2 (6549 lines vs 1918 lines) +4631 lines
gpgsm (6549 lines vs 608 lines) +5941 lines
gpm (1432 lines vs 249 lines) +1183 lines
gprof (1818 lines vs 355 lines) +1463 lines
grep (1518 lines vs 329 lines) +1189 lines
groff (10368 lines vs 442 lines) +9926 lines
grub (3009 lines vs 46 lines) +2963 lines
iconv (164 lines vs 29 lines) +135 lines
idn (153 lines vs 49 lines) +104 lines
indent (1460 lines vs 1125 lines) +335 lines
info (1074 lines vs 67 lines) +1007 lines
init (100 lines vs 35 lines) +65 lines
install (91 lines vs 77 lines) +14 lines
install-info (70 lines vs 68 lines) +2 lines
join (89 lines vs 55 lines) +34 lines
jwhois (345 lines vs 61 lines) +284 lines
kill (112 lines vs 49 lines) +63 lines
kpsewhich (160 lines vs 60 lines) +100 lines
latex (2782 lines vs 40 lines) +2742 lines
ld (5723 lines vs 1535 lines) +4188 lines
ln (109 lines vs 72 lines) +37 lines
locale (202 lines vs 40 lines) +162 lines
locate (126 lines vs 119 lines) +7 lines
ls (642 lines vs 162 lines) +480 lines
m4 (6050 lines vs 88 lines) +5962 lines
make (9112 lines vs 185 lines) +8927 lines
makempx (74 lines vs 29 lines) +45 lines
md5sum (79 lines vs 44 lines) +35 lines
mft (69 lines vs 53 lines) +16 lines
mkdir (43 lines vs 38 lines) +5 lines
mktemp (152 lines vs 44 lines) +108 lines
mktexlsr (120 lines vs 26 lines) +94 lines
mktexmf (163 lines vs 22 lines) +141 lines
mktexpk (163 lines vs 45 lines) +118 lines
mktextfm (163 lines vs 27 lines) +136 lines
msgattrib (123 lines vs 107 lines) +16 lines
msgcat (120 lines vs 106 lines) +14 lines
msgcomm (107 lines vs 96 lines) +11 lines
msgconv (86 lines vs 78 lines) +8 lines
msgen (85 lines vs 77 lines) +8 lines
msgexec (54 lines vs 48 lines) +6 lines
msgfilter (138 lines vs 85 lines) +53 lines
msgfmt (168 lines vs 112 lines) +56 lines
msggrep (156 lines vs 122 lines) +34 lines
msginit (67 lines vs 61 lines) +6 lines
msgmerge (142 lines vs 119 lines) +23 lines
msgunfmt (113 lines vs 97 lines) +16 lines
msguniq (102 lines vs 92 lines) +10 lines
mtools (2116 lines vs 284 lines) +1832 lines
mv (86 lines vs 63 lines) +23 lines
nano (593 lines vs 162 lines) +431 lines
nice (71 lines vs 34 lines) +37 lines
nl (93 lines vs 63 lines) +30 lines
nohup (37 lines vs 35 lines) +2 lines
od (155 lines vs 89 lines) +66 lines
ogonkify (269 lines vs 118 lines) +151 lines
parted (1110 lines vs 118 lines) +992 lines
paste (40 lines vs 34 lines) +6 lines
pathchk (34 lines vs 30 lines) +4 lines
pdiff (41 lines vs 37 lines) +4 lines
pinfo (541 lines vs 429 lines) +112 lines
pktype (57 lines vs 35 lines) +22 lines
pooltype (25 lines vs 20 lines) +5 lines
pr (232 lines vs 97 lines) +135 lines
printf (80 lines vs 51 lines) +29 lines
psmandup (67 lines vs 50 lines) +17 lines
psset (78 lines vs 57 lines) +21 lines
ptx (333 lines vs 64 lines) +269 lines
rename (67 lines vs 25 lines) +42 lines
rm (86 lines vs 70 lines) +16 lines
screen (4422 lines vs 2568 lines) +1854 lines
sed (1854 lines vs 178 lines) +1676 lines
seq (74 lines vs 42 lines) +32 lines
setreg (100 lines vs 28 lines) +72 lines
setsid (90 lines vs 15 lines) +75 lines
shred (141 lines vs 76 lines) +65 lines
shuf (70 lines vs 43 lines) +27 lines
sort (357 lines vs 88 lines) +269 lines
split (46 lines vs 45 lines) +1 lines
stty (348 lines vs 241 lines) +107 lines
su (70 lines vs 41 lines) +29 lines
sys (64 lines vs 45 lines) +19 lines
sysctl (96 lines vs 50 lines) +46 lines
tail (143 lines vs 70 lines) +73 lines
tar (1249 lines vs 334 lines) +915 lines
tee (90 lines vs 31 lines) +59 lines
test (151 lines vs 113 lines) +38 lines
texindex (73 lines vs 31 lines) +42 lines
tftopl (102 lines vs 44 lines) +58 lines
time (316 lines vs 138 lines) +178 lines
touch (87 lines vs 48 lines) +39 lines
tr (230 lines vs 87 lines) +143 lines
tsort (86 lines vs 27 lines) +59 lines
ul (179 lines vs 41 lines) +138 lines
umount (185 lines vs 73 lines) +112 lines
uname (60 lines vs 46 lines) +14 lines
uniq (94 lines vs 53 lines) +41 lines
units (804 lines vs 666 lines) +138 lines
vcd-info (985 lines vs 88 lines) +897 lines
vcdimager (2855 lines vs 65 lines) +2790 lines
vcdxrip (370 lines vs 70 lines) +300 lines
vi (1978 lines vs 318 lines) +1660 lines
w (58 lines vs 44 lines) +14 lines
wc (58 lines vs 42 lines) +16 lines
wget (3243 lines vs 1181 lines) +2062 lines
which (140 lines vs 83 lines) +57 lines
who (81 lines vs 59 lines) +22 lines
write (250 lines vs 39 lines) +211 lines
xgettext (311 lines vs 139 lines) +172 lines
 
The following have larger man pages:
13261 more lines total
116 programs with longer man pages, average 114.32 more lines/document

HEAD (99 lines vs 41 lines) +58 lines
ab (105 lines vs 15 lines) +90 lines
addr2line (96 lines vs 69 lines) +27 lines
arch (16 lines vs 8 lines) +8 lines
at (132 lines vs 67 lines) +65 lines
autoupdate (44 lines vs 37 lines) +7 lines
base64 (38 lines vs 28 lines) +10 lines
basename (34 lines vs 26 lines) +8 lines
bibtex (67 lines vs 43 lines) +24 lines
c++filt (132 lines vs 111 lines) +21 lines
chmod (108 lines vs 56 lines) +52 lines
ci (364 lines vs 80 lines) +284 lines
cksum (27 lines vs 19 lines) +8 lines
clock (37 lines vs 35 lines) +2 lines
col (53 lines vs 37 lines) +16 lines
comm (32 lines vs 21 lines) +11 lines
dir (162 lines vs 6 lines) +156 lines
dircolors (37 lines vs 32 lines) +5 lines
dirname (34 lines vs 23 lines) +11 lines
dvitomp (15 lines vs 10 lines) +5 lines
enscript (844 lines vs 266 lines) +578 lines
envsubst (40 lines vs 31 lines) +9 lines
ex (318 lines vs 28 lines) +290 lines
expand (36 lines vs 28 lines) +8 lines
factor (30 lines vs 27 lines) +3 lines
false (30 lines vs 15 lines) +15 lines
fastjar (50 lines vs 45 lines) +5 lines
ferror (50 lines vs 49 lines) +1 lines
find (885 lines vs 81 lines) +804 lines
fold (37 lines vs 29 lines) +8 lines
fs (94 lines vs 44 lines) +50 lines
getopt (236 lines vs 67 lines) +169 lines
gftodvi (69 lines vs 37 lines) +32 lines
gftopk (38 lines vs 20 lines) +18 lines
grepjar (32 lines vs 23 lines) +9 lines
groups (26 lines vs 12 lines) +14 lines
grub-install (36 lines vs 32 lines) +4 lines
grub-md5-crypt (22 lines vs 13 lines) +9 lines
grub-terminfo (20 lines vs 14 lines) +6 lines
gs (266 lines vs 47 lines) +219 lines
gzip (291 lines vs 121 lines) +170 lines
head (43 lines vs 41 lines) +2 lines
host (97 lines vs 12 lines) +85 lines
hostid (27 lines vs 12 lines) +15 lines
hostname (102 lines vs 11 lines) +91 lines
id (40 lines vs 31 lines) +9 lines
ifnames (34 lines vs 21 lines) +13 lines
infokey (31 lines vs 13 lines) +18 lines
ip (953 lines vs 752 lines) +201 lines
link (29 lines vs 16 lines) +13 lines
login (206 lines vs 36 lines) +170 lines
logname (26 lines vs 10 lines) +16 lines
makeinfo (147 lines vs 9 lines) +138 lines
mbchk (19 lines vs 11 lines) +8 lines
mf (215 lines vs 74 lines) +141 lines
mkfifo (34 lines vs 19 lines) +15 lines
mknod (40 lines vs 34 lines) +6 lines
mount (1171 lines vs 185 lines) +986 lines
mpost (218 lines vs 101 lines) +117 lines
mpto (23 lines vs 18 lines) +5 lines
msgcmp (55 lines vs 50 lines) +5 lines
mtr (105 lines vs 28 lines) +77 lines
nc (175 lines vs 38 lines) +137 lines
newer (19 lines vs 17 lines) +2 lines
ngettext (48 lines vs 35 lines) +13 lines
nm (205 lines vs 200 lines) +5 lines
objcopy (519 lines vs 497 lines) +22 lines
objdump (399 lines vs 389 lines) +10 lines
open (320 lines vs 143 lines) +177 lines
patgen (96 lines vs 11 lines) +85 lines
pdftex (200 lines vs 27 lines) +173 lines
pktogf (35 lines vs 19 lines) +16 lines
pltotf (29 lines vs 16 lines) +13 lines
printenv (30 lines vs 13 lines) +17 lines
ps (776 lines vs 67 lines) +709 lines
pts (118 lines vs 102 lines) +16 lines
pwd (30 lines vs 12 lines) +18 lines
ranlib (45 lines vs 18 lines) +27 lines
readelf (166 lines vs 139 lines) +27 lines
readlink (45 lines vs 44 lines) +1 lines
rec (505 lines vs 33 lines) +472 lines
rmdir (35 lines vs 27 lines) +8 lines
rpm (577 lines vs 49 lines) +528 lines
sa (142 lines vs 39 lines) +103 lines
sh (4359 lines vs 11 lines) +4348 lines
sha1sum (42 lines vs 11 lines) +31 lines
shutdown (47 lines vs 30 lines) +17 lines
size (98 lines vs 72 lines) +26 lines
sleep (32 lines vs 23 lines) +9 lines
sn (136 lines vs 105 lines) +31 lines
ss (95 lines vs 64 lines) +31 lines
stat (87 lines vs 85 lines) +2 lines
stream (66 lines vs 64 lines) +2 lines
strings (84 lines vs 57 lines) +27 lines
strip (163 lines vs 136 lines) +27 lines
sum (30 lines vs 27 lines) +3 lines
sync (27 lines vs 14 lines) +13 lines
tac (35 lines vs 26 lines) +9 lines
tangle (77 lines vs 39 lines) +38 lines
tc (206 lines vs 92 lines) +114 lines
tex (229 lines vs 148 lines) +81 lines
texi2dvi (128 lines vs 57 lines) +71 lines
true (30 lines vs 20 lines) +10 lines
tty (28 lines vs 17 lines) +11 lines
unexpand (38 lines vs 31 lines) +7 lines
unlink (28 lines vs 16 lines) +12 lines
up (82 lines vs 70 lines) +12 lines
updatedb (88 lines vs 70 lines) +18 lines
users (28 lines vs 16 lines) +12 lines
vdir (165 lines vs 5 lines) +160 lines
vftovp (41 lines vs 36 lines) +5 lines
vptovf (27 lines vs 16 lines) +11 lines
weave (31 lines vs 23 lines) +8 lines
whoami (27 lines vs 8 lines) +19 lines
xargs (192 lines vs 113 lines) +79 lines
yes (27 lines vs 9 lines) +18 lines