Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:21:53 +0000 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: linuxusersgroup@googlegroups.com, nmosug-l@mailman.swcp.com Subject: Re: Effectively detaching 'less' from a pipe Message-ID: <45E41451.50803@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <45E3D262.9080707@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <26face530702261927w553488a1uae8629aa3d827497@mail.gmail.com> <45E3D262.9080707@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman wrote: >Kelly Jones wrote: > > > >>Once I'm convinced, though, I'd like to "get rid" of less, and just >>have the rest of stdout spewed to the terminal (and/or /dev/null >>and/or to a file I specify). >> >>In other words, I want to stop hitting 'space' until my program terminates. >> >> > >Hit F > >Makes less work rather like tail(1). Once your inferior process has >finished you need to hit Ctrl-C and then q to quit from less(1). > > You learns something new every day... In a similar vein, I use G which jumps to the end-of-file. If there is a lot of output less does nothing until it hits EOF and then just shows you the end of the output. I suspect that of being quicker since it won't spend any time scrolling output to the screen. --Alex
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