From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 19 23:52:45 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 7537D106566C for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:52:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sterling@camdensoftware.com) Received: from wh2.interactivevillages.com (wh2.interactivevillages.com [75.125.250.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39D6A8FC19 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:52:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from c-24-22-230-24.hsd1.wa.comcast.net ([24.22.230.24] helo=_HOSTNAME_) by wh2.interactivevillages.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PqwbP-0008Nl-A4 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:52:40 -0800 Received: by _HOSTNAME_ (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:52:40 -0800 Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:52:40 -0800 From: Chip Camden To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20110219235240.GA2495@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Mailing List References: <20110219233736.GA20393@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6TrnltStXW4iwmi0" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110219233736.GA20393@thought.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Company: Camden Software Consulting URL: http://camdensoftware.com X-PGP-Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=0xD6DBAF91 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - wh2.interactivevillages.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - camdensoftware.com 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: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:52:45 -0000 --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--