----- "Andrew Farnsworth" <[email protected]> wrote: > Newby command of the day: less > > The less command is similar to the more command except that it > provides more functionality. In other words... less is more :-)
One of my complaints with less is that it does things in ways that I have become accustomed to using in more. Example, when I end a listing in more, I get to keep the display on the screen. Nice if I am using it like a poormans grep and didn't know how much context I was going to need. There is also zmore and bzmore too. I will admit that the limitation in more to hold a buffer when it is used as part of a pipe is annoying. Less has a buffer and allows a little bit of forgiveness when you wanted to paginate your ls output and you skipped over the part you needed. You comment about searching like vi(m), more does searching as well. -- Steven Critchfield [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
