On 23/11/06, Daniel Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Not sure about the 'less -F'. In my version '-F' is different to 'F'
Sorry, I meant "+F" (i.e. treat the "F" as if the user typed it interactively while "inside" less, another useful command is "+G").
- the latter being pressed after less is up and running. 'F' works like 'tail -f' but 'less -F' does something else. I like using F not least because you can search and highlight values.
Same here.
But I couldn't get it to work like the 'tail -f ... | grep ... ' paradigm - ie using grep to filter on the lines: less -<some_switch> | grep
Oh - that wouldn't work - what do you expect this to do? Make "less" behave like "tail"? Then just use "tail". "less" isn't going to magically highlight strings if its output isn't a terminal. If you just want to highlight the matching strings in grep then you can use the --colour option. In my previous message I suggested to use "less" at the tail of the line (pun intended), as an interactive viewer of the results. Read grep(1) and less(1). --P -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
