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Since upgrading to Debian 12 (bookworm), the more command seems to have been changed and now comes to a stop when you reach the end of the file you are viewing and then displays "(END)", ...
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I'm trying to set the fish history pager to be bat -l fish for syntax highlighting. (i.e. set the PAGER environment variable bat -l fish just for the history command). I tried: # 1: alias history &...
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How can I add line numbers to man pages or info pages in Linux? I want to use line numbers to navigate in man pages. I can write the man page in a file and then open it with Vim, but is there a better ...
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I'm not an expert in Linux, but I was reading an introductory book and found that man pages use the PAGER environment variable to show the content of man pages. I checked printenv and didn't find any ...
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I treat man pages is the primary source of documentation about installed software. I would like to use them not only as a reference, but actually read them from beginning to end. And here comes the ...
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trying to install gentoo linux and can't format the drive with xfs because when I run mkfs.xfs /dev/sda3 it throws an error and then displays help, but the help is so big that it takes up the entire ...
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My Oh-my-zsh does the following: When I run the git log --pretty --oneline command, it shows me a long list of commits, as expected. As soon as I hit q, it suddenly disappears with the below output: ...
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On my FreeBSD 13.2 system, the zless utility cannot view text files compressed with gzip or compress, warning that they may be binary files and then showing garbage if I say I want to see the contents ...
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I sometimes cat a c file or a JSON file, there is no colorful format text. Is there any command line tool that can show colorful format text as it is in ex: gedit?
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I've been using less forever now, and there's one thing I wish it was doing differently. When I do git log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit it switches to full-screen immediately (as the output is ...
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I'm on Arch Linux. I came across some new pager software called OV and installed it. It has more features than less and I like it so I want to set it as my default pager. I added the following to my ....
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When I pipe something into less --quit-if-one-screen +G (alias -F +G), less opens and scrolls to the end if the output exceeds the terminal size. Unfortunately, it also scrolls to the end before ...
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I use less version 590 (GNU regular expressions). I use export LESSFILE="/root/.lesshst_for_manpages" export MANPAGER="pager --save-marks -I" man -L en <<somemanpage>> ...
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In mc (midnight commander), I can define custom command for viewing files, ie: shell/i/.jpg Open=gpicview %f View=file %f | less The command file %f has to be piped to a pager. I am using ...
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Minimal example: man git | cat Real example: man git | grep --color=always -C 3 "pathspec" FWIW, I've tried --pager="cat" using various pagers, as well as piping to various ...
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