On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 03:29:36PM +0100, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > > Quite the contrary. Less allows searching the page using > regular expressions, which actually helps a lot. Many html > A real life example:
I want to read an answer from stdin into a variable, but - as I do not shell programming every day - do not remember how. Searching for "read" in the man page leads me to the wanted position after about 200 times hitting the "n" key. Next I try " read ". Still about 50 key hits. Try man bash | grep read | wc Kind reagrds, ulrich