On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Jun Tanamal wrote:
> Can someone suggest what to use for viewing and do searching for
> keywords within a file. I don't want to turn pico or vi on. If it has
> a menu feature and scrolling that would be better.
try less ... latest incarnations support search ...
less <somefile> or <someprocess> | less
type / then search string ... then press n for next match and N for
previous match... whatever works in vi should probably work here also...
hth
-mark
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