From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 20 00:23:01 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80DCF106564A for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:23:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 523238FC08 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:23:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B05FDE80458; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:23:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:23:00 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20110220002300.GA21231@thought.org> References: <20110219233736.GA20393@thought.org> <20110219235240.GA2495@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110219235240.GA2495@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: Subject: Re: variable line-display pager? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:23:01 -0000 On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:52:40PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 19 February 2011: > > Need help findind a way of using existing unix utilities to diplay > > chunks of N lines of a text files. Here N <= the number of lines in > > the file. > > > > For instance, say that my xterm/console/"Konsole" is 80x53 lines. > > My text file is around 200 lines long and I want to use more or less > > or some GUI pager to display only 15 lines at one time. Tapping the > > space bar would display another 15 lines and so on until EOF. Is > > there a way of doing with with flags of the existing /usr/bin/less > > or is there some other pager that I can build? > > > > thanks, > > > > gary > > > > > > > > -- > > Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix > > Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org > > The 7.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > The -z option is supposed to do this: > > less -z15 file.txt > > But it appears to work only on the second and successive pages. Oh. So _that's_ why. I tried less -m 15 [because the man pages sais z=N; i just tried what you did with -z15. Full page first time, 15 lines each spacebar thereafter. Zank you, Sir Chip.. Anybody else? I'm loathe to use anything gui, but here's where I'll be happy w ith something GUI THat i can squeeze my "15" or small-n lines' worth into. Can'y believe that there is nothing for all theses years.... I mean, geewhiz! Any idea where I Should look in ports or how to google this? gary > > -- > Sterling (Chip) Camden | sterling@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F > http://chipsquips.com | http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 7.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org