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]
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]
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 small
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 20 years more
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 program that
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, and give
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'
Forwarding to the group.
Please use Reply All when responding.
- 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 through
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:
Forwarding to the group.
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- Original Message
From: Mike Hoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Alan Gauld [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm
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
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
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