[wellylug] cat README | more ???
Phillip Hutchings
sitharus at gmail.com
Wed Nov 3 11:24:56 NZDT 2004
> In this case, there is no advantage to doing it that way. But
> more/less/most are filters and can be replaced by other filters, such
> as grep/sort etc.
>
> Say you wanted to not see all lines with "discard" in them, and you do
> want to see only those lines with "wanted", *after* looking at the
> file for the first time? So up-arrow, back-arrow over the "more" and
> type "grep -v discard | grep wanted |" so that you have
>
> cat README | grep -v discard | grep wanted | more
>
> No doubt there are better ways to do it.
>
> Also you can use the cat parameters to, for example, number all the
> lines.
>
> But it probably makes no difference really. And I use less most of the
> time.
grep -v discard README | grep wanted | less
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