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What does `LESS=+/EXAMPLE\:` mean?
In man parallel_tutorial (for GNU parallel) I’ve found the following black magic:
LESS=+/EXAMPLE\: man parallel
Searching around in the man pages for man, less, and bash, it appears this may have ...
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Open a protected file form within man page/less?
I was reading the man page for firewalld.service and I wanted to open up the service.xml from within the man page (which I believe is less).
I know :e would do the job if I had permissions, but ...
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How do I execute a Linux command whilst using the less command or within the man pages?
I generally pipe the command ls with less and would like to execute a command while it is paging e.g. I come across a file that I would like to delete so I would like to execute the command rm {...
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Why does "ulimit -t 5" have no effect on "less" or "man", but work on "yes"?
If I run
$ ulimit -t 5
$ yes
then yes gets killed after 5 seconds, but man and less/more don't.
Why are those two immune to ulimit?
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Open man-page with less [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to let man utility to use less to display manual rather than more?
How can i open up the Man-page for a command with the less-editor?
Alternatively, how can i find the ...
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Enable wheel in mintty for cygwin comands: less and man
I'm using mintty and cygwin. How to can I enable the mouse wheel inside less and man?
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How can I get file information in 'less' like with 'man'?
When I view a file in Linux with the 'less' command, I often only get a ":" prompt in the bottom left corner. There's no clue about how long the file will be, or at which location I am currently. When ...
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