On Fri 25 Sep 2020 at 11:19:40 (+0100), anthony gennard wrote: > My email has gone haywire and I cannot reply to two of the messages. > Fortunately, I had made copies of them. > Greg Wooledge said to me > >"How are you `looking at ` the file? > >I would suggest using less. > > >You get out of less by pressing p
No, q, not p. You get out of less with q. But Ctrl-C can be useful if you do something like search for a string in a huge file and want to interrupt it because it's taking too long. > Greg, I was using less. > What I did was:- Open a terminal by ctrl + alt + F1 > `cd /var/log` then `ls` and I could see boot.log amongst the list of files > then I did `sudo less boot.log` and got the list of start ups. > At this point I was stuck and asked the list for help. > I was such a fool because I did not look up the man page for less. > I went through the process and pressed p and low and behold and was back to > the `root@??? /var/log`. > Thank you. > Now I have to try and print a copy of the first 100 or so lines which > will give me the last boot up details. If you make yourself a member of the adm group, you can read your logs as a normal user. You'd need to type into any terminal $ sudo addgroup myloginname adm replacing myloginname as appropriate, but you will need to login again before the addgroup command will have any effect. Cheers, David.
