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Michael wrote: |
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> On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 13:23:27 BST Dale wrote: |
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>> Michael wrote: |
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>>> On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 13:09:03 BST Dale wrote: |
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>>>> Michael wrote: |
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>>>>> On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 12:37:49 BST Dale wrote: |
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>>>>>> I checked the man page, I see nothing about the show progress option. |
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>>>>> Are you sure? |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> This is what I see here on line 47: |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> "status=LEVEL |
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>>>>> The LEVEL of information to print to stderr; 'none' suppresses |
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>>>>> everything but error messages, 'noxfer' suppresses the final |
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>>>>> transfer |
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>>>>> statistics, 'progress' shows periodic transfer statistics" |
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>>>>> I find this useful in seeing the transfer speed drop in real time as the |
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>>>>> cache gets saturated. |
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>>>> Ahhh, I didn't see the status part. It's sort of hiding in a |
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>>>> subsection. At least I know now that the version I have installed has |
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>>>> this option. |
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>>>> I wish I could view man pages like I used to in Konqueror. It displays |
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>>>> like a webpage and is much easier to search through. |
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>>>> Thanks for pointing that out. |
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>>>> Dale |
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>>>> :-) :-) |
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>>> Yes, I also liked the old Konqueror interface. Searching for keywords |
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>>> e.g. |
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>>> "progress" within man pages works if you preface the keyword with "/": |
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>>> /progress |
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>>> will find it and "n" or "Shift+n" will jump forward and backward to any |
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>>> other instances in the man page. |
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>> That doesn't work here. I can type in /progress but it just shows up at |
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>> the bottom. |
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> Yes, it shows at the bottom until you hit enter to execute the search. Then |
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> it highlights the next instance of the searched string. Just like Vim/Vi |
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> does. Hmm ... I wonder if I have set up some special environment parameter on |
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> my systems and forgotten about it. :-/ |
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*cough cough* I didn't hit enter. Just did and it worked. Now to get |
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that info to stick in this old dog's brain for next time. ROFL |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |