Hi Ulrich,
Ulrich Lauther wrote on Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 09:23:20PM +0100:
> 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
$ man -k any=read | grep shell
csh(1) - a shell (command interpreter) with C-like syntax
ksh, rksh(1) - public domain Korn shell
system(3) - pass a command to the shell
$ man -O tag=read ksh
read [-prsu[n]] [parameter ...]
Reads a line of input from the standard input, separates the line
into fields using the IFS parameter (see Substitution above), and
assigns each field to the specified parameters. If there are
[...]
The above is the same as: https://man.openbsd.org/ksh#read
No /-searching needed in less(1) for your example if you have a
good man(1) command.
Of course, in many cases, /-searching is still useful.
Yours,
Ingo
