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Re: Colored less



Celejar wrote:
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:22:43 +0100
"Javier Barroso" <javibarroso@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:00:17 +0100
"Rob Gom" <rgom.debian@gmail.com> wrote:

However I don't see two things:
1. Automatic file update (when it's changed).
less doesn't seem to do this either.
except for growing files, F key in less emulate 'tail -f' (I don't
known when this feature was introduced in less)

Neat!  I didn't know that.

Yeah, I've completely "broken" my habit of tailing log files...

"less -ian" and then hitting "F" has finally become my finger's habit... very useful... can search, move up and down, etc...

Does eat a bit more RAM than just tailing things of course, if you're on a very constrained system or a system in serious memory trouble...

Nate


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