It's a UNIX command to display a file.
Example: less file will display the file file.
See discussion in Meta for the history on why less-unix is used for this instead of less, which is broadly used for CSS.
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pager (less) -- get current scroll position?
I am scripting the display of the output of a script (well, it is just the program git diff) with tmux: Once a filesystem change is detected the shell script executes tmux send-keys q enter C-l "git diff" enter which has it effectively refresh the…
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Unable to unbind a shell function
This question is based on the thread.
I have the shell function
function man()
{
man "$1" > /tmp/manual; less /tmp/manual
}
The problem is there exists the command man.
How can you replace the command with my command?
Léo Léopold Hertz 준영
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Linux : less cannot search case insensitive using -i
Consider:
If searching using ?cm02csdate -i, it fails:
But if searching using ?CM02CSDATE, it can be found:
I searched the man page. It also said using -i to search case insensitive, as the following shows:
So why does it fail when I use…
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How to write correctly regex pattern for less command
How convert this pattern
Some_Word>[\n\t\r].*?[\n\t\r].*?[\n\t\r].*?BK<\/symbol>
When I'm used this with the less command, then I not found nothing.
P.S. I checked here that patter with the text and it work correctly:
before bla…
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