On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 03:27:26PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 15:06:16 +0100, Tom Furie wrote: > "gnome-terminal" and "echo $SHELL" returns "/bin/bash". It also works in > tty1. And just tested on xterm and works fine. > > Use case: dmesg|less Ah, then that's less you're in rather than the shell. In less you can use space and b for page forward and page back, no need for CTRL- sequences. > > CTRL-V allows you to enter a literal control character for display, i.e. > > CTRL-V CTRL-M will put ^M on the screen. It's actually , but I don't > > know how well that'll come across in email. > > How are you testing all that? Simply typing at the shell prompt. Cheers, Tom -- Life is a process, not a principle, a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved. -- Gerard Straub, television producer and author (stolen from Frank Herbert??)
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