On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 04:23:00PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > 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
Ha!! I thought there was a way. less and more are the same
program with different names and switches. If you do a more
with some small-n and a file, it prints those small-n lines to
the screen.
% more -15 file does what I want. Pretty sure.
gary
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