Documentation on LESS_TERMCAP_* variables?
I see these pretty colors in manpages viewed with less when setting a bunch of these variables. What do they mean, where is the documentation? Is this interpreted by less or termcap?
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How to scroll large datafile while keeping header
Suppose I have some large datafile, which overflow the screen in both vertical and horizontal direction. How can I browse this file, while the header-lines stay on the screen?
When to use grep, less, awk, sed
I’m entering the world of Linux and at work I’m using grep more and more. By doing that I’m figuring out that sometimes it’s not adequate for what I want. I was struggling with grep a few days ago and a colleague of mine who is a senior Linux admin, told me to use awk. … Read more
Is there any way to exit “less” follow mode without stopping other processes in pipe?
Often times I find myself in need to have the output in a buffer with all the features (scrolling, searching, shortcuts, …) and I have grown accustomed to less.
less command and syntax highlighting
I need to use the less command with the syntax highlighting of the vim command for python, C, bash and other languages.
Does “less” have a feature like “tail –follow=name” (“-F”)
The command less can be used to replace tail in
How can I view gzipped files in less without having to type zless?
I am using Ubuntu, and I would like to be able to type less compressed_text_file.gz and page the contents of the text file in uncompressed form. Is there a way to do this?
How can I use man without less?
By default, man uses less to output text. How can I tell it to just output to stdout? My terminal emulator has a scroll bar and search function and I want to use those instead of the arrow keys.
Isn’t less just more?
When I do more filename and less filename, it would seem that the resulting terminals are quite similar. I can navigate and search through my files identically (j, Space, /pattern, etc.).
Write lines to a file from less
While in vim I can write a range of lines from the file I’m viewing to another file. For example,