On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:42:00 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

If the subject is true, why does your dog have no man page?

> I've finally been pushed over the edge.  I simply can't stand it any
> longer.  The "it" in this case is viewing a file or process output and
> either: (a) using less, and have it take just 10 screen lines; (b) using
> cat etc., and have the interesting part scroll away.
> 
> To solve this dilemma, I've written dog, a short script that will splat
> lines to the screen if they're few enough, invoke less otherwise. 

% eix -e dog
[I] sys-apps/dog
     Available versions:  1.7-r4{tbz2}
     Installed versions:  1.7-r4{tbz2}(15:54:25 20/12/11)
     Homepage:            http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-apps/dog
     Description:         Dog is better than cat

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Neil Bothwick

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