Questions tagged [pager]
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Bash: how do I pipe the output of every command through “less --quit-if-one-screen”?
When I run some commands in Bash, I have no idea how many number of lines the output will be. If the number of lines in the output exceeds the height of my terminal, I will not be able to see the ...
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Horizontal scrolling pager with vi keys
less and most use j and k, but they don't use h and l for horizontal scrolling. Is there a way I can fix either of these to do that? or maybe an alternative tool that I could use as a pager that does ...
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Why are PAGER, EDITOR, VISUAL empty?
When I try to use those environment variables, I get an empty string:
$ $PAGER some_file;
bash: some_file: command not found
$
I tested a few things:
$ echo $PAGER;
$ man man; ## Here it's using ...
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How to set background color of $PAGER?
I usually set my terminal with transparent background. But, when I need to read a lot of text such as man, less, cat, etc., I want my background color to be solid black. I can change the backgrounds ...
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prevent less linewrapp from breaking words — split on white space only
I want less's linewrapping to be smarter... when lessing through text it's wrapping lines in such a way that words get broken up which makes reading difficult. The smart way would mean only breaking ...
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How to use normal output with systemctl instead of less/more? [duplicate]
For example: systemctl list-units --type service by default uses redirection to less/more, how to disable it?
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less - How to get matching line not be the top line on screen?
Very often happens that I do
$ man someprogram
to inspect the manual for some program. Often I also want to search for something in there, and I simply hit / and write whatever I want to search for.
...
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How can I display only the first screenfull of output, including all terminal colours, and lines that will be wrapped? [duplicate]
I have a command (a compiler) that can output lots to the terminal when there's a compilation problem. Some of the lines are longer than my terminal is wide, and it also uses terminal colours (red ...
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How do I get source highlighting via source-highlight for most?
I can get source highlighting to work with lesspipe or GNU source-highlight, but both depend on environment variables that are specific to less. How would I get syntax highlighting in most?
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Obtaining starting adress of a page
I want to obtain the beginning of a memory page, a page that contains a function.
In my case I try to achieve the page beginning of main function. Which lies in 0x400a80, I think it is in code ...
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How to prevent less --quit-if-one-screen --no-init +G from filling the screen with empty lines when the file is shorter than the screen?
I use
less -XFR +G
to page some variations of git log, and all four options are important.
The thing I don't like is that it fills the screen with empty lines (marked with ~) when the log/file is ...
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Getting error when searching within an info page
I'm using the Fish shell on openSUSE Tumbleweed (20200414). I am able to initially search for a string within an info page by typing '/string'. However, when I try to search for the next occurrence ...
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How to search for end-of-line hyphenated words in less(1)
Does less (or any other lightweight pager I could use as $PAGER) has such a feature?
For example, if I type man bash and then enter /incorporates it doesn't find the word, despite it being right ...
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Why is `man` outputing to stdout instead of $PAGER (less)?
When I run man [program], the man page text is output on the terminal (a la cat, without a pager that provides interactivity) instead of opening the man page file in less (so you can scroll, search, ...
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Why doesn't Esc-[ scroll left in `less`?
According to the manpage for lesskey,
the following keys are bound to left-scroll and right-scroll:
\e[ left-scroll
\e] right-scroll
\e( left-scroll
\e) right-scroll
\kl ...
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Bashrc not loading when running manpager
I have found issues with using the MANPAGER variable in bash in order to set vim to be my manpager.
Initially I set my manpager using the method shown in :help manpager by doing:
export MANPAGER="...
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Restore interactive commands after accidentally overpaging pipe input to less?
Consider a script like this:
$ cat example.sh
#! /usr/bin/env bash
for i in {1..90}
do
printf '%s\n' "$i"
done
sleep 10
printf '91\n'
sleep 10
printf 'done\n'
and suppose the output is piped to ...
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less: advertise terminfo through pipe
If I do ls | less, ls detects that it isn't connected to a terminal, which is fair enough. Except that less is connected to a terminal. In this setup, ls could produce the coloured and columnised ...
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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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1answer
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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 ...
