On 12 May 2012, at 23:39, Stroller wrote: > > On 12 May 2012, at 22:49, Alex Schuster wrote: >> ... >>> I want to view the html source of a webpage. >>> >>> When I run `less file.html` the rendered webpage is shown, not the >>> source. It is as if lynx had been invoked, rather than less. >>> ... >>> How do I disable less from parsing html source, please? >> >> You can set LESSIGNORE='*.htm*'. This environment variable is used by the >> lesspipe command, which is invoked by less and filters the input file >> before giving it to less itself. > > That's great! Thanks! > > Searching the manpage for "lessopen" I find that I can use this shortcut > instead: > > less -L file.html > > Stroller.
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