Questions tagged [pager]
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navigating forward in more pager using f
It is given in the man page of more that f is used to skip forward k screenful of text(default to 1).I saved a very long file using cat and used more to show it on the screen page by page but when i ...
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Unable to search a string using more pager
I opened a file using the more pager,i was trying to find a string in this file using / as shown in the figure below,but it is saying that pattern not found even though the string i have searched is ...
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man pages no longer rendering - lots of “permission denied” errors related to pager / vimpager
For reasons I can't determine, within the last two days the "man" command stopped working on my linux server (Ubuntu 18.04). When attempting to run man <anything> I end up at a blank instance ...
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changing default (man) pager
I'm working on Solaris 10, using bash. Want to change default pager from "more" to "less" (because "less is more" :). Tried to do the following:
PAGER=less
PS. When I do it in csh via
setenv PAGER ...
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How can I keep colorful terminal output, but disable pagers
On macOS man uses the pager "/usr/bin/less -is" (see man's man page). When I type man , I see colorized output, and I like this. But, I prefer to use the terminal's find commands when using man, and ...
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Using 'less' to leave text on screen for small files
I'm pretty sure seeing this customization of the less command on some colleague system long ago, in order to imitate 'more'. What I want:
If the file is short (less that one screen long), it should ...
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Lightweigtht pager with links?
Are there any pagers/readers/viewers for the use inside the Linux terminal that can follow links to the same page and different files (not necessarily on the net) which have an simpler markup language ...
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Jumping to end/beginning of line in “less -S”
The commonly used pager less can be started with the option -S, prevents it from breaking lines.
One can then press the right and left arrow keys to scroll horizontally.
Since the lines can be quite ...
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Is it possible to scroll beyond the end of a file in the less pager?
Is it possible to scroll past the bottom in less?
Ideally, I'd like to be able to see the last line of the file I am viewing at the top of my terminal window (the rest of the screen may be filled ...
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Custom terminal with less
Currently I have this in my "~/.profile":
export PAGER='env TERM=fox less'
However I just realized that this only works with "man", and not if you do
something like this:
less /etc/DIR_COLORS
to ...
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Change Search Highlight Color In Less
I am a bit lost here on customizing the search/find highlight color or font format if you will. I understand that using LESS_TERMCAP_* we can alter the font format of less display. Full capabilities ...
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How to configure the keybinddings of “most”, a pager in Linux
I've recently discovered the pager "most". most can make the manpages colorful and I like it. I want to change some of its bound keys and from the manpage of most I found out it's possible to do that. ...
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How to show desktop pager in KDE for one virtual desktop [closed]
I have KDE5 plasma and one virtual desktop. I tried to show desktop pager in panel for one virtual desktop, but without succesfull.
In KDE4 I made change in script here '/usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma/...
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GRUB scrolls off top of screen
I'm entering commands at the GRUB2 prompt on Debian 9. If I run e.g. help or lsmod, there is more than one screens-worth of output, and it just scrolls off the top so I can only read the last screen. ...
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Bash always outputs to less, how can I turn this off?
After a recent update bash seems to always output to less, which is resulting in pagination for many commands. Does anyone know how to turn less off?
Example output for systemctl status
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How to use terminfo to set colors for man and less?
I saw this question where the answerer uses termcap to define colors for less which then could be used for how man could be displayed. It said while termcap is obsolete, it's easier while terminfo is ...
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How do some tools (e.g. nano , less) manage to leave no content in terminals after exit? [duplicate]
Whenever I use a pager like less or an editor like nano in the shell (my shell is GNU bash), I see a behaviour I cannot explain completely and which differs to the behaviour I can observe with other ...
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Is there a interactive filter tool when paging output?
I would like to take the output from a program and interactively filter which lines to pipe to the next command.
ls | interactive-filter | xargs rm
For example, I have a list of files that a ...
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Should I set PAGER environment variable, alias or symbolic link?
I noticed that when using aliases, some programs launch pager directly (either from PATH or through PAGER). I'd like to define default pager for all cases, not just when I type the command.
Should I ...
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Is there any way of changing most keybindings to something more familiar?
most pager is nice, but its default keybindings are unlike any other.
As I don't want to learn a whole new set of keybindings for my pager (no matter how fancy and wonderful it is), is there any way ...
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Is there a graphical pager?
Does someone know of a GUI application (X/GTK+/Qt/whatever) that can be used instead of less or more for viewing text, specifically one piped in from standard input? Ideally looking for something that ...
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Set debugfs pager
I do not want pager to clear screen when using debugfs.
Have tried things like, as per man for debugfs:
export PAGER='less -FX'
debugfs foo bar
export DEBUGFS_PAGER='less -FX'
debugfs foo bar
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How to get out of opened documents in the terminal?
I use to press CTRL+C, but there are some cases where this key combination doesn't work. E.g. if you open the perl docs:
perldoc File::Path
The documentation is presented on the terminal and I can't ...
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Kubuntu 15.10, pager appears twice
The desktop switcher on my taskbar appears twice, once on the left side, once on the right. Also I cannot position it anywhere I like. Does anyone know how I can delete one of the desktop switchers ...
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Does `less` or `more` support ansi escape `\x1b[2K` (erase_line)?
Basically I want to animate my terminal but because the text is too long, I need a pager. Let's just say I want to change my text colour periodically in less. Is it possible?
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Busybox pager with color capability?
I asked on Superuser about colors for git log in MobaXterm (on Windows), but it turned out that the problem wasn't MobaXterm—it's the lack of a -R flag in busybox's less.
It would help my workflow ...
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How to change pager key bindings
I'd like to swap RETURN (scroll forward N lines, default one window) and SPACE (scroll forward N lines, default 1) in less to get a for me more natural way to page through man pages.
I saw years ...
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Why does using rev as your man pager fail when piping it through rev again?
I recently thought about a devious trick that involves setting the PAGER envionment variable to rev as a joke.
When I tried reading the man page for rev with man rev I then saw the man page in reverse ...
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How do I forbid access to physical memory in Linux?
I'm on an embedded system (Zynq from Xilinx. It uses ARMv7, Cortex-A9), and running Linux. I need to ensure that no access to a certain physical memory range is ever made, either accidentally by the ...
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Pager that would work with header-lines? [duplicate]
Is there any pager, like less, that would allow paging result, but keeping configurable number of lines at the top always?
Example: I run a query that returns many rows from database. Results are ...
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Does less have a feature like tail --follow=name (-F)
The command less can be used to replace tail in
tail -f file
to provide features like handling binary output and navigating the scrollback:
less +F file
The + prefix means "pretend I type that ...
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Viewing man pages with scroll wheel support
I'd like to use the scroll wheel (xterm mouse escape codes) to scroll through man pages, like I can in emacs with xterm-mouse-mode. less doesn't seem to have support for that and short of recompiling ...
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Git pager is less, but what is causing the output coloring?
less itself isn't capable of doing syntax highlighting, according to this thread.
However, git diff nicely shows colored output in less, its default pager. When I redirect the output of git diff ...
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man causes a broken pipe when using a pager other than less
I'm trying to write a simple script to format my man pages, but I've run into a broken pipe error.
These lines both cause the error:
env MANPAGER=cat man $foo
man -P cat $foo
and this is the script ...
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What is a pager?
I saw "pager" in several places:
less is a terminal pager program on Unix
option -P for man Specify which output pager to use.
What is a pager? How is it related to and different from a ...
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Show two desktop pagers with different settings in KDE
I'm trying to set up a CentOS 6 system with KDE. I have an older system that use gnome that I'm happy with, and I'm trying to make the KDE system behave as much like the gnome one as possible.
The ...
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Center Mutt pager horizontally
Is there a way to horizontally center emails when reading them in a larger terminal using mutt? I'm not interested in centered justification of the text in the email, but I am interested in forcing ...
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less freezes at last line when paging output from a running command
I have a CLI app that produces lots of debug output and I have a really big need to search in the output. I'm using less for that but it freezes when I reach the last line with j or G. And it returns ...
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How to get colours on man pages with w3m as a PAGER?
Is it possible, and if so how, to have colour/bold/italic characters in man pages while using w3m?
Another pager (most) does have some limited colour support but is not as versatile as w3m. I know ...
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Case insensitive search in man pages
Is there a way to search man pages case-insensitively? Using the '/' search feature matches exact case.
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Shift-Space in less
In modern web browsers and other software with text content, Space scrolls down more or less a screenful. ShiftSpace scrolls up in everything but less.
How can one use ShiftSpace to scroll up in less?...
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git diff displays colors incorrectly
In order to get coloured output from all git commands, I set the following:
git config --global color.ui true
However, this produces an output like this for git diff, git log
whereas commands like ...
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How can I see output from a command progressively?
I have fired an ls -1 command that runs and displays a long list of values. When the command ends I can not see the output which is outside the screen vertical length. How can I see those previous ...
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How to scroll large datafile while keeping header
Suppose I have some large datafile, which overflow the screen in both vertical and horizontal direction. How can I browse this file, while the header-lines stay on the screen?
For the moment, I am ...
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How to send all output to a pager by default?
git has a very nice feature for many of its commands: The output on an interactive terminal is passed to a pager by default, in such a way that it only keeps the pager open if there's more than one ...
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Using more command
Is there any case or reason to use "more" unix command instead of "less". As far as I see "less" is "better" in all senses, so does it mean that "more" is a command which has no reason to be used when ...
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pager program like less, able to repeat top N lines
Is there any way to make less program repeat first line (or first 2 lines) on every displayed page?
Is there any other pager program which can do this?
This would be a killer-app for database table ...
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Why do 'man' pages have many extra lines?
When I run the command:
man fork
There is a highlight line at the bottom that reads:
Manual page fork(2) line 52/99 (END)
But when I navigate to line 53 and up to 99, these are just blank lines. ...
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What is the `less` command line option to page to the next file at the end of the current one?
I'm sure there used to be an option in less which allowed you to page onto the next file after you reached the end of the current file, so you could just keep *space*ing through a bunch of short files ...
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Is there a pager that stops on form feeds?
Is there a pager that stops on form feeds?
When I'm reading RFCs, I can read them like this:
$ less -z57 rfc748.txt
This will keep the pager lined up with the pages, but this is a bit of a hack, ...
