der.hans wrote: > moin moin, > > I wanted to look at the binary content for a pdf, so I lessed it. I got > the text of the pdf. Hmm, type $file.pdf claimed it's pdf. > > cat $file.pdf | less showed it to be pdf. > > Apparently less can now produce the text from pdf files :). > > I verified this works on Ubuntu 6.06 ( others verified more recent > releases ) and debian stable. > > evince gives much nicer output, but for the times when I just want a quick > view of the content or want to search for a string it'll be great to use > less!
As I've said: "'less' is 'more' but less, with more, more or less." ;^) Alan
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