On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:37:38PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > 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?
Actually, the more pager should scroll one page at a time, determining a "page" by the size of the console in which it is displayed, if I remember correctly. Just `more filename` and start hitting the spacebar. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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