Re: more or less Newbies?
Thank you Joost, for spelling out what I thought and felt.
The one thing that remains for me to say is that I didn't want to object
against less as the default pager. I just wanted to point out that more is a
UNIX power tool, and that it does make sense to have more but not less on a
system.
However, it is not a bug that you can't scroll back in man pages with more.
The reason is, that man feeds the formatted man page with a pipe (another
power facility of the shell) in more, and pipe can't be seeked randomly but
only in a sequence.
To see the difference, one may try:
$ more <filename> # right, you have random access
and
$ cat <filename> | more # suboptimal, you can only go forward
Another point I want to stress is the importance of regular expressions, a
concept that in the three operating systems mentioned by lucier is not even
known. Learn regex's, and you have made a big step forward to a Linux Guru.
Marcus
PS: After learning awk and shell cripting, you get perl nearly for free.
PPS: I removed ls from my system and have an alias "ls" -> "echo *" ;)
PPPS: I also have an alias "emacs" -> "cat >"
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