[wellylug] cat README | more ???
David Antliff
dave.antliff at paradise.net.nz
Wed Nov 3 13:46:25 NZDT 2004
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, jumbophut wrote:
> But I use 'cat | less' a lot more than I write about why I use 'cat |
> less', so a few more wasted keystrokes for the exceptional case is
> fine.
One nice feature of 'less <file>' is you can hit 'v' and edit the file
with whatever envvar EDITOR is set to (or vi by default). You obviously
can't do this with 'cat <file> | less'
--
David
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