Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 08:35:22 -0800 From: Chip Camden <sterling@camdensoftware.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: variable line-display pager? Message-ID: <20110220163522.GA66537@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <201102201417.p1KEH7bf048132@mail.r-bonomi.com> References: <20110220002300.GA21231@thought.org> <201102201417.p1KEH7bf048132@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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--d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Quoth Robert Bonomi on Sunday, 20 February 2011: > > From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Feb 19 18:28:20 2011 > > Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:23:00 -0800 > > From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> > > To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > > Cc:=20 > > Subject: Re: variable line-display pager? > > > > 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= =20 > > > > chunks of N lines of a text files. Here N <=3D the number of lines= in=20 > > > > the file. > > > > > > > > For instance, say that my xterm/console/"Konsole" is 80x53 lines. M= y=20 > > > > text file is around 200 lines long and I want to use more or less o= r=20 > > > > 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= =20 > > > > there a way of doing with with flags of the existing /usr/bin/less = or=20 > > > > is there some other pager that I can build? > > > > > > > > thanks, > > > > > > > > gary > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public=20 > > > > Service Unix > > > > Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org= =20 > > > > The 7.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.o= rg > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list=20 > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To=20 > > > > unsubscribe, send any mail to=20 > > > > "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= =20 > > z=3DN; i just tried what you did with -z15. Full page first time, 15= =20 > > lines each spacebar thereafter. > > > > Zank you, Sir Chip.. Anybody else? I'm loathe to use anything gui, bu= t=20 > > here's where I'll be happy w ith something GUI THat i can squeeze my= =20 > > "15" or small-n lines' worth into. Can'y believe that there is nothing= =20 > > for all theses years.... I mean, geewhiz! Any idea where I Should look= =20 > > in ports or how to google this? > > >=20 > how hard can it be? >=20 > stty rows=3D15; less filename That's the V8 answer, but the syntax needs correcting: stty rows 15; less filename Works with 'more', too. --=20 Sterling (Chip) Camden | sterling@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://chipsquips.com | http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNYULKAAoJEIpckszW26+RYXgH/0OkakZqjeKysDd4yLv+cFzm D7UJRXaIn2PX6OKVv+eJ1/xbk/n1vcpsI8OGEf7v5/0R2xrcYB/v3t6vMxuaGGx/ oxvNrJ8om0wbzGlstjmgo+rbdjcR7y7buv1QjLLz08yk3ko06kt8v1Lyw90UcXcQ wWvTnfrB5LAv8Qfk5bNgOf7hJNTxxmms9USvQap69Rsj63Ss4h2SLdrQw2M6rW4c WUoHNaQJSvtIGZXteTMrrDTphGlNX2KBnRoEs/ys+FOC5npvI5+Fdavgc6r44+qs Y6G8VlbbP08m7A/bW4H1fvJr8+E8v9cJJq9xwxlPrm0hYNLOC1ux0CSCSmHv4+A= =vf1M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND--
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