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On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 06:24:29PM -0500, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: |
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> > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 08:42:00PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> >> (a) using less, and have it take just 10 screen lines; (b) using cat etc., |
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> >> and have the interesting part scroll away. |
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> > (c) use less -F and less will automatically exit if the entire file can fit |
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> > on one screen. One can export LESS='-F' to have less always do the above. |
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> Maybe I'm seeing behavior that is not supposed to happen, but if I say |
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> echo '## ONE LINE' > test |
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> And then say less -F test |
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> I do not get to see the one line. I don't think that's what Alan |
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> was looking for is it? |
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That is not supposed to happen. Is that in a X terminal or on the text |
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console? |
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If you `less test` and quit, does the content of the test file stay on |
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screen or does it get cleared (I bet the former)? Try `less -XF test` |
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in that case, and see if it helps. |
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W |
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Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire |
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et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton |
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