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.
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