Questions tagged [pager]
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Fastest editor/pager for text search
I have a 4.6GB text file that I need to search through.
Surprisingly grep is fairly fast, but I need to be able to scroll around the file after searching for specific text.
Less would normally be ...
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sudo is required to view manpages when using most as the pager
I've installed most to be used as the default pager to view the man pages. most is exported as the PAGER in .bashrc. When I run a command like man grep I get the following error:
man: can't execute “...
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Why are man pages not filling all the space in the terminal?
When I run man in xterm on Ubuntu 14.04 it looks like this:
The lines are wrapped without filling the terminal width. Why?