from Glen Barber g...@freebsd.org:
less(1) is expecting '+' to be followed by additional arguments.
If you use 'less -- +DESC', for example, it should work fine. Same with
vi(1).
Yes, that works, as does less ./+DESC.
Somehow I thought I had successfully done less +CONTENTS successfully
I notice in my latest build of FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE (#11), a problem with less
and vi with files whose name begins with +.
These files occur in /var/db/pkg/(pkg-name)/
For instance, if I cd /var/db/pkg/png-1.4.8
and type
less +DESC
I get
Missing filename (less --help for help)
but if I type
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 01:03:30AM -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote:
I notice in my latest build of FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE (#11), a problem with less
and vi with files whose name begins with +.
These files occur in /var/db/pkg/(pkg-name)/
For instance, if I cd /var/db/pkg/png-1.4.8
and type
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Thomas Mueller
muelle...@insightbb.com wrote:
I notice in my latest build of FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE (#11), a problem with less
and vi with files whose name begins with +.
These files occur in /var/db/pkg/(pkg-name)/
For instance, if I cd /var/db/pkg/png-1.4.8
On Jul 15, 2012, at 10:03 PM, Thomas Mueller muelle...@insightbb.com wrote:
I notice in my latest build of FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE (#11), a problem with less
and vi with files whose name begins with +.
These files occur in /var/db/pkg/(pkg-name)/
For instance, if I cd /var/db/pkg/png-1.4.8
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 01:03:30AM -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote:
I notice in my latest build of FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE (#11), a problem with less
and vi with files whose name begins with +.
These files occur in /var/db/pkg/(pkg-name)/
For instance, if I cd /var/db/pkg/png-1.4.8
and type
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 01:03:30AM -0400 I heard the voice of
Thomas Mueller, and lo! it spake thus:
Has anybody noticed this bug?
It's not a bug really; both can take an argument starting with '+' for
various things.
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This is not a bug. Both vi and less have + command line arguements.
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At Mon, 16 Jul 2012 01:03:30 -0400,
Thomas Mueller wrote:
I tried vi instead of less, not really wanting to edit the file,
and vi tried to open a temporary file on /tmp with a strange name.
Has anybody noticed this bug? It affects i386 and amd64 at least.
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