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On 12 May 2012, at 22:49, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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>> I want to view the html source of a webpage. |
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>> When I run `less file.html` the rendered webpage is shown, not the |
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>> source. It is as if lynx had been invoked, rather than less. |
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>> How do I disable less from parsing html source, please? |
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> You can set LESSIGNORE='*.htm*'. This environment variable is used by the |
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> lesspipe command, which is invoked by less and filters the input file |
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> before giving it to less itself. |
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That's great! Thanks! |
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Searching the manpage for "lessopen" I find that I can use this shortcut instead: |
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less -L file.html |
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Stroller. |
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