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Append to compressed log
There is a couple of z-utilities (zless, zcat), which are able to read contents of zipped file in transparent manner.
Is it possible to append to compressed log file (in either format, not ...
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What's the behaviour of `cat | less`?
I tried to run the following command:
cat | less
I know both commands require something from the standard input.
When I run it that's what I expected: all my inputs goes to cat and I will not be ...
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Special and diacritic charactres using less, cat and other linux tools
I am using GNU bash, Version 4.1.10(4)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) and set up my .inputrc to allow for special characters and German umlauts etc.:
set meta-flag on
set convert-meta off
set output-meta ...
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Let less work like cat, if only one screen full of text
On my Debian machine here, less always opens the alternate screen to show stuff.
This is annoying, if there are only 2 or 3 lines to be displayed. I'd like less to:
work as pager, if there is more ...
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