| more
The "|" is the pipe command, which will pipe the ourput of the first
command into the input of the second command. More is a program which
will display things one screen at a time. Less is actually a better
program that more, because you can scroll back up using the arrow keys or
pageup/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On 8 May, André Bell wrote:
> > Does bash contain a pause feature other than control-z?
> >
> > When I type 'help' the screen scrolls past and control-z doesn't stop the
> > top few lines from scrolling away before I can read them. with dos I'd
> > just type 'dir /p'
On 8 May, André Bell wrote:
> Does bash contain a pause feature other than control-z?
>
> When I type 'help' the screen scrolls past and control-z doesn't stop the
> top few lines from scrolling away before I can read them. with dos I'd
> just type 'dir /p' or type ' |more'
>
> Are there equiva
William R Pentney wrote:
>However, the "less" command is more powerful - it lets you move back and
>forth through the file, search it, etc:
>
>Type "man less" for more info.
I must have installed something incorrectly because 'man less' says:
"can't open the manpath configuration file /etc/manpat
On Sat, 8 May 1999, [iso-8859-1] André Bell wrote:
Ctrl-Z isn't really a pause feature, actually. What it does is suspend a
process. You can use the "more" command in bash, too:
cat filename | more(replace filename with file)
man subject | more (replace subject with manual page)
However,
André Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does bash contain a pause feature other than control-z?
try:
$ command | less
where "command" is what you want to do.
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Does bash contain a pause feature other than control-z?
When I type 'help' the screen scrolls past and control-z doesn't stop the
top few lines from scrolling away before I can read them. with dos I'd
just type 'dir /p' or type ' |more'
Are there equivalent set of commands for bash?
Thanks!
An
Subject: bash functions
Date: Fri, May 07, 1999 at 10:27:23PM -0800
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Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Reply-To:
> While doing some reading, I came across a section regarding adding functions
> to .bash_profile like this
> tarc () { ta
On Fri, 7 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> While doing some reading, I came across a section regarding adding functions
> to .bash_profile like this
> tarc () { tar -cvzf $1.tar.gz $1 }
> but whenever I try to source the .bash_profile I get syntax error, unexpected
> EOF messages.
Just move
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