[wellylug] cat README | more ???

Enkidu enkidu at cliffp.com
Wed Nov 3 21:58:21 NZDT 2004


On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 13:46:25 +1300 (NZDT), you wrote:

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>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'
>
Oooooooooooooo!

Cheers,

Cliff




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