less is a terminal pager program on Unix, Windows, and Unix-like systems used to view (but not change) the contents of a text file one screen at a time.
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Setting GNU Screen to send escape codes to outer terminal on TI
I’m using GNU Screen inside mintty. To get the scroll wheel to work, I had to switch the mintty scroll wheel mode with an escape code (^[[?7787h). This has the effect that the scroll wheel does not ...
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Why does `less` not recognize the mouse wheel when stdin is a pipe?
I was wondering why my less sometimes does not recognize the mouse wheel (my terminal is Konsole). Now I've found a pattern: It seems to work whenever less's STDIN comes directly from the shell (zsh ...
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How to use my vim configuration in less?
Quite some programs have commands that output with less(e.g. git blame filename). I would like to use my vim configuration(e.g. <C-j> instead of using Pg Down to go down a page) whenever less is ...
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utility “less” takes high cpu
I'm using suse 9 and redhat 5. Sometimes I see that "less" takes a lot of cpu. It happens more on suse 9 though happened on redhat 5 too. I have to admit that the frequency of such event is very low - ...
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less doesn't highlight search
Something happened so I don't see less highlights any more. I've tried:
using different terminal.
using -g option
making sure -G isn't there
^K while searching
ESC-U
Nothing helps.
I work in ...
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How can I have `less` automatically decompress `xz` files like it did with `gz` files on my old SUSE distro?
On my old SUSE distro, less would automatically decompress .gz files.
That came in very convenient when listing auto-compressed /var/log/mail*.gz files.
The current version of SUSE now archives ...
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How to do a multiline search in less?
In less, can you search using / for a pattern that contains a carriage return and newline? I know your pattern can end with a line using $ (from How do I include newlines in a search in less?), but I ...
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Lessc Textmate bundle doesn't save .css file
I installed: https://github.com/appden/less.tmbundle and the lessc compiler and it seems to work (no errors) but I don't see a compiled .css file.
Any ideas?
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Scroll “less” output using scroll wheel on Mac OS X
How can I enable the scrolling of "less" output (rather than the terminal window itself) using the scroll wheel on OSX?
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How do I execute a Linux command whilst using the less command or within the man pages?
I generally pipe the command ls with less and would like to execute a command while it is paging e.g. I come across a file that I would like to delete so I would like to execute the command rm ...
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Why does “ulimit -t 5” have no effect on “less” or “man”, but work on “yes”?
If I run
$ ulimit -t 5
$ yes
then yes gets killed after 5 seconds, but man and less/more don't.
Why are those two immune to ulimit?
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Terminal pager: How to display a list in columns?
I'm sure it's very simple, but I can't remember how to tell a terminal pager (more/less/pg/most) to display a long list in columns.
Since my input is just a list of short elements, displaying it the ...
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Open man-page with less [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to let man utility to use less to display manual rather than more?
How can i open up the Man-page for a command with the less-editor?
Alternatively, how can i find ...
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How much can less utility buffer?
I'm curious.
You can use less to read through a 100 GB file with no problem.
But if you cat a 100 GB file into less, I'm thinking that less must buffer the whole file because there is a pipe (was it ...
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Is there an automatically scrolling, time-delayed Unix pager command?
I'd like to view output of big commands slowed down, like a slideshow with e.g. automatic, 500ms delay between each scroll. What is the simplest way to achieve this?
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Why does cd print when run in command substitution?
If I use the 'cd' BASH built-in in a command substitution, it prints extra stuff to stdout, but only when piped to, eg., less.
$ echo `cd .`
# The output is a single newline, appended by echo.
$ ...
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equivalent to titeInhibit for Cygwin's rxvt-native?
Some programs, such as less, have the annoying idea that I should not be allowed to keep loking at the content of a file while I'm typing the next command. They save the contents of the terminal when ...
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How can I set `less` or `more` max lines (scrollable height) limit/boundary in linux?
(Sorry for the title. Any suggestions?)
I've set my commandline PS1 to cover 3 lines:
white space
user, server and pwd
$ or # to input
I think less (or more?) is configured to break after ...
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Less not scrolling immediately on long lines (xterm-256color vs vt100)
When I press 'j' in a text file with long lines, it won't proceed to
the next line until I've pressed j 'n' times.
So if I have a file:
a
b
c
d
e (long line that displays as 5 lines on screen)
...
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Less or More in Windows?
Is there a command in the Windows DOS prompt that is equivalent to the UNIX less or more?
Basically, the problem is that when I type hg log, the output has too many lines to fit on the screen and I ...
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The Less command can list directory contents in Gentoo Linux, but not in Ubuntu Linux
I regularly use the 'less' command in Gentoo like so:
less /tmp
(or any other directory, which I have access to.)
Less then proceeds to show me the contents of that directory. I can also use Less to ...
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Why less -F option does not work with -S option
While trying to improve output from hg diff I've noticed that less -F option does not work with -S option. Why is that happening and how to achieve desired effect?
Here is handout from man:
-F or ...
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Less interrupting in less
I often pipe program output to less, e.g.
produce_output | less
This works great, until produce_output produces large amounts of output. If I search for some text that is deep into the file, less ...
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How can I tell kate to use CSS highlighting for .less files by default?
How can I tell kate to use CSS highlighting for .less files by default?
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vim doesn't display first line?
when I use vim to open some php files, it starts with line 2, other files display fine. When I view the file with less I have the same issue. however when I edit it with nano I can see that line's in ...
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cygwin > xterm > bash > less : MouseWheel scrolling not working
I am trying to get mousewheel scrolling to work in less, within an xterm in cygwin with XMing x-server and fvwm window manager !
I hope I make sense..
I have tried rxvt, urxvt, urxvt-X, aterm, mrxvt ...
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Filtered file viewer
I'm using the less to view log files. This is quite good, but I want to filter out some lines from output. E.g. I don't want to see lines containing "DEBUG" or I want see lines which contain only ...
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less with color and locale
Using cygwin I've a problem in less: I can't see colors (for example using grep --color) and I can't set the locale I'm using (LC_ALL=C).
I type this command:
echo òùàòùàòà | grep --color àò | sort ...
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Hard Drive space not available when switching from Linux install back to Windows
About 6 months ago, I installed Ubuntu on my desktop onto a 2TB harddrive. After a while, I decided I would rather switch back to Windows. So I took my Win7 installation disk, popped it in and started ...
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Enable wheel in mintty for cygwin comands: less and man
I'm using mintty and cygwin. How to can I enable the mouse wheel inside less and man?
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`less` starts `ed`
I can't make less use my favorite editor. To my horror, it starts ed which I've never used and really am not going to.
> echo $EDITOR
emacsclient
> less somefile
Pressing v starts ...
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less emulate a TTY to preserve piped color output
When you pipe something through less, the program usually discards color codes because it's not outputting to a TTY. So you have to add --color=always to the options for it to work.
ls -l ...
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vim -R /dev/random
I am on the verge of doing alias less='vim -R' for the convenience of being able to scroll with my multitouchpad.
However, I like that less -f can view even files like /dev/random that are not ...
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“less” (linux) get/go-to X offset in file
I open a big file with this command:
less +G /var/log/blah/file.log
Now when I find the desired info I'd like to know its exact offset in this file, so later I can open that file again and return to ...
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How do i get the git pager to act normal?! Less leaves output on the screen when executed via git
The pager less doesn't clear the screen as it should do when i use git.
I use less all the time and it usually doesn't leave output in the terminal after quit but when less gets executed via git it ...
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Linux less behavior and stderr
I'm watching the output of my complicated command with less, problem is the stderr gets lost. stderr lines normally get listed inbetween stdout lines inside less. I would like them to be printed to ...
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How can I make Unix Less wrap long columns?
I need to view a large tab delimited file using less. There is a column with ~200 characters which I am not interested in seeing but that column pushes all other columns to right making the viewing ...
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mutt colorizing piped messages
Viewing messages in mutt are colorized, but piping them through the less pager removes colorization. How do I preserve message colorization?
I've tried: | less -R
but colorization is stripped ...
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copy and paste tabs between terminal windows in X11
When I copy and paste text using the X11 mouse selection between two terminal windows, tabs are often, but not always, converted to spaces. This appears to depend on the involved terminal ...
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Avoiding newlines when copying wrapped text in Terminal.app
I have text files with lines that of length greater than my terminal width. I generally use less to view these files and often want to copy something that wraps from one line to the next.
I've found ...
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LESS syntax highlighting in Geany
I'm using LESS CSS (PHP version). I'm also using Geany in Linux. Is there a LESS syntax file for Geany out there, or how I can go about editing the CSS one to suit LESS?
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Can I display a text file in multiple vertical panes?
I've got a text file with lots of 60 character long lines where I do a search with the "/" command to highlight the hits. I would like to visually inspect this long file with the highlighted text but ...
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How to make mouse wheel scroll the less pager using bash and gnome-terminal?
I have two computers with the latest Fedora. On the first, I'm using zsh and the mouse wheel can be used with the less pager within gnome-terminal to scroll the pager.
On the second, I use bash and ...
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less is more? Is more less? I'm so confused
When I first heard their names, I got really confused when I tried to guess what these tools might do, I thought I'd misheard something.
What's the difference between more and less, i.e. why ...
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'less' doesn't clear screen after quit
The default behavior for 'less' is to clear the screen after quitting. This behavior stopped when I started using:
export TERM=xterm
Now 'less' leaves the last page I viewed on the screen, and I ...
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How do you search for tabs in the linux command less?
How do you search for tabs in the linux command less?
I've tried /\t but that only seems to search for the character t.
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How can I save the current contents of less to a file?
If I've piped the results of a command to less and then decided that I want to save the contents to a file, is this possible?
I've tried setting a mark a at the end of the buffer, and then returning ...
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Best method for CoffeeScript / LESS autocompilation?
I've been using LESS and CoffeeScript substantially lately, and wondering what would be the best method of monitoring. Currently I use LESS.app, which works great, but I don't think there's a solution ...
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How to turn off word-wrap in less
Short version:
How can I make the less utility in Linux not wrap lines?
Long version:
Often I need to view huge CSV files using less with hundreds of columns. I frequently only care about the first ...
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Preventing the pager less from exiting when scrolling beyond the end of file
I like less and use it as my default pager in Linux.
However, there are times that I am scrolling down through a large document quickly and less exits when I reach the end of the document before I ...
