Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:52:40 -0800 From: Chip Camden <sterling@camdensoftware.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: variable line-display pager? Message-ID: <20110219235240.GA2495@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <20110219233736.GA20393@thought.org> References: <20110219233736.GA20393@thought.org>
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--6TrnltStXW4iwmi0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 <=3D the number of lines in > the file. >=20 > 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=20 > 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? >=20 > thanks, >=20 > gary >=20 >=20 >=20 > --=20 > Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Un= ix > Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org > The 7.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" The -z option is supposed to do this: less -z15 file.txt But it appears to work only on the second and successive pages. --=20 Sterling (Chip) Camden | sterling@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://chipsquips.com | http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com --6TrnltStXW4iwmi0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNYFfIAAoJEIpckszW26+RYCcIAKJcpbJ4TsZonZGGkzHM+B6e C2j13OtcF4dtV4HmDot90WKA0MLx8lp2i/VnLQOyTSUcgH3kXok8TIqEVXCsPbMP /KwZuU+jjBf6kdqxU6uZtGpLtzzFf2OVtO6JetVfvXP2Rh6F81rqTpBr+jAUAElF TBTtkMaBJRQYhbQYWEh59BWOQYsUQJz5cAJfynCaeTAHylwzPcvh8qU036u0YNub KS9Oyn6H2luzkROW4lfwiPcrqx90Zsy6h88Q1TxK27Ms/D+G5+NF5G2Naxkrdsav X7dCQ2i96x6HvJTrq0prVdPKXOmpe4NtFiW76vko/fsabbrUq8W/HOFBCei6c5k= =JtFO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6TrnltStXW4iwmi0--
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