Re: bash functions
<command> | more
The "|" is the pipe command, which will pipe the ourput of the first
command into the input of the second command. More is a program which
will display things one screen at a time. Less is actually a better
program that more, because you can scroll back up using the arrow keys or
pageup/pagedown. q exits from less.
Mathias
On Sat, 8 May 1999, [iso-8859-1] André Bell wrote:
> Does bash contain a pause feature other than control-z?
>
> When I type 'help' the screen scrolls past and control-z doesn't stop the
> top few lines from scrolling away before I can read them. with dos I'd
> just type 'dir /p' or type '<filename> |more'
>
> Are there equivalent set of commands for bash?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Andre'
>
>
> At 10:27 PM 5/7/99 -0800, blutgens@mosquitonet.com wrote:
> >Reply-To:
> >While doing some reading, I came across a section regarding adding functions
> >to .bash_profile like this
> >tarc () { tar -cvzf $1.tar.gz $1 }
> >but whenever I try to source the .bash_profile I get syntax error, unexpected
> >EOF messages. The article was old and I assume that bash no loger supports
> >this syntax, I messed around with this quite a bit and can't seem to make it
> >work. Can anyone offer me advice on this subject? I think these functions
> >would be quite handy.
> >
> >--
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> >as the wind blows out candles and fans fires.
> > -- La Rochefoucauld
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