Michael wrote: > On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 13:23:27 BST Dale wrote: >> Michael wrote: >>> On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 13:09:03 BST Dale wrote: >>>> Michael wrote: >>>>> On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 12:37:49 BST Dale wrote: >>>>>> I checked the man page, I see nothing about the show progress option. >>>>> Are you sure? >>>>> >>>>> This is what I see here on line 47: >>>>> >>>>> "status=LEVEL >>>>> >>>>> The LEVEL of information to print to stderr; 'none' suppresses >>>>> everything but error messages, 'noxfer' suppresses the final >>>>> transfer >>>>> statistics, 'progress' shows periodic transfer statistics" >>>>> >>>>> I find this useful in seeing the transfer speed drop in real time as the >>>>> cache gets saturated. >>>> Ahhh, I didn't see the status part. It's sort of hiding in a >>>> subsection. At least I know now that the version I have installed has >>>> this option. >>>> >>>> I wish I could view man pages like I used to in Konqueror. It displays >>>> like a webpage and is much easier to search through. >>>> >>>> Thanks for pointing that out. >>>> >>>> Dale >>>> >>>> :-) :-) >>> Yes, I also liked the old Konqueror interface. Searching for keywords >>> e.g. >>> "progress" within man pages works if you preface the keyword with "/": >>> >>> /progress >>> >>> will find it and "n" or "Shift+n" will jump forward and backward to any >>> other instances in the man page. >> That doesn't work here. I can type in /progress but it just shows up at >> the bottom. > Yes, it shows at the bottom until you hit enter to execute the search. Then > it highlights the next instance of the searched string. Just like Vim/Vi > does. Hmm ... I wonder if I have set up some special environment parameter > on > my systems and forgotten about it. :-/ > >
*cough cough* I didn't hit enter. Just did and it worked. Now to get that info to stick in this old dog's brain for next time. ROFL Dale :-) :-)
