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 <= the number of lines in > the file. > > 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 > 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? > > thanks, > > gary > > > > -- > Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix > Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org > The 7.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@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. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://chipsquips.com | http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com
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