Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:16:09 -0700 From: "Larry W. Wood" <lwwoody@comcast.net> To: New Mexico Linux Users Group Mail List <nmlug@nmlug.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, nmosug-l@mailman.swcp.com, linuxusersgroup@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [NMLUG] Effectively detaching 'less' from a pipe Message-ID: <440A76B3-1AEB-49EE-9FC4-90C63616C169@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <26face530702261927w553488a1uae8629aa3d827497@mail.gmail.com> References: <26face530702261927w553488a1uae8629aa3d827497@mail.gmail.com>
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On Feb 26, 07, at 8:27 PM, Kelly Jones wrote: > I often run commands piped to 'less', to make sure the command is > working OK by looking at the first few lines of output. Don't use "less". Use "head" instead: command | head -n N (where N is the number of lines of the output you want to see) HTH! -- Woody
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