der.hans wrote:
moin moin,
I wanted to look at the binary content for a pdf, so I lessed it. I got
the text of the pdf. Hmm, type $file.pdf claimed it's pdf.
cat $file.pdf | less showed it to be pdf.
Apparently less can now produce the text from pdf files :).
I verified this works on
der.hans spake thusly on 208112408 ::
moin moin,
I wanted to look at the binary content for a pdf, so I lessed it. I got
the text of the pdf. Hmm, type $file.pdf claimed it's pdf.
cat $file.pdf | less showed it to be pdf.
Apparently less can now produce the text from pdf files :).
I
On Friday 03 August 2007 14:43, after a long battle with technology,
Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote:
der.hans spake thusly on 208112408 ::
Apparently less can now produce the text from pdf files :).
Technically, it's not less, but lesspipe.sh. This bit me once on a
system where LESSOPEN
