Lie Ryan wrote:
As the manpage of "less" explains: 'less - opposite of more'
I've always heard it explained that "more" is the original paging
program of UNIX, and when a new pager was created (by GNU?) they named
it "less" because, as we all know, "less is more"[1].
Simón
[1] http://www.p
Lie Ryan wrote:
As the manpage of "less" explains: 'less - opposite of more'
I've always heard it explained that "more" is the original paging
program of UNIX, and when a new pager was created (by GNU?) they named
it "less" because, as we all know, "less is more"[1].
Simón
[1] http://www.p
os.system("cat textfile | less")
did the trick, thanks everyone.
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Lie Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:20:55 -0500, Shawn Milochik wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Mike Hoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I'm writing a small progr
"Lie Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
both "more" and "less". The most striking difference between "more"
and
"less" is that "more" is simple forward-only, you can't scroll up,
only
down. "less" support both backward and forward navigation.
On very early Unices that was true but for the last
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:20:55 -0500, Shawn Milochik wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Mike Hoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'm writing a small program that writes to a text file. I want to be
>> able to view the contents of the text file inside of shell. But the
>> file is too large for a
On Monday 17 November 2008, ALAN GAULD wrote:
> > I'm writing a program that reads a text file onto the screen. The
> > text file is too large to read so I want to be able to scroll
> > through it with the arrow key or something like that. I am not
> > using GUI.
You could also output the text, an
Ok thanks Alan for looking into it. I'll give it a try.
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:27 PM, ALAN GAULD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> - Original Message
> From: Mike Hoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECT
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- Original Message
From: Mike Hoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'm writing a program that reads a text file onto the screen. The text
> file is too large to read so I want to be able to scroll th
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Mike Hoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm writing a small program that writes to a text file. I want to be
> able to view the contents of the text file inside of shell. But the
> file is too large for a small shell window. Is there a way for the
> user to 'scroll' t
"Mike Hoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
I'm writing a small program that writes to a text file. I want to be
able to view the contents of the text file inside of shell. But the
file is too large for a small shell window.
Can you explain a bity more about what you are doing?
Which shell are you t
I'm writing a small program that writes to a text file. I want to be
able to view the contents of the text file inside of shell. But the
file is too large for a small shell window. Is there a way for the
user to 'scroll' through the contents of file that has been read into
the program? I noticed th
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