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 > > 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.
Oh. So _that's_ why. I tried less -m 15 [because the man pages sais z=N; i just tried what you did with -z15. Full page first time, 15 lines each spacebar thereafter. Zank you, Sir Chip.. Anybody else? I'm loathe to use anything gui, but here's where I'll be happy w ith something GUI THat i can squeeze my "15" or small-n lines' worth into. Can'y believe that there is nothing for all theses years.... I mean, geewhiz! Any idea where I Should look in ports or how to google this? gary > > -- > Sterling (Chip) Camden | sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F > http://chipsquips.com | http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com -- 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"
