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Willie WY Wong <wongwwy@××××××××××.org> writes: |
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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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Real xterm in kde desktop (not konsole or any of the wannabes, just |
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plain xterm) |
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xterm -version |
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XTerm(276) |
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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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(I guess you meant `latter'... not `former' eh?) |
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Here it is cleared... and yup `less -XF test' does as expected. less |
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doesn't start but the one line is shown. |
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(For the record: I have never used any of that and have no intention |
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or need to. I just saw the thread, tried it myself and saw what I |
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posted.) |
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Thanks for the input. |
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Oh, and this is all happening on a Debian (Testing) machine. |
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