Spyke

I both understood that sentence perfectly and sounded like a crazy person while reading it out loud.

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I don't know why anyone would use more when less is more with more features.

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tetris11reply
lemmy.ml

I use bat sometimes, but how do you stop it from wrapping lines?

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lemmy.ml

I use bat sometimes, but how do you stop it from wrapping lines?

$ cat ~/.config/bat/config
--wrap=never
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lemmy.ca

You dropped your friggin' > in another thread and I just stepped on it. Pain like Lego.

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lemmy.world

"less". If its a small file i use cat. If i want the top I use "head" or "tail' for the bottom. For a specific string i use "grep"

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I'm not sure if I've used more in the last 25 years. And when I did I think it was in MS-DOS.

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lemmy.ml

LESSOPEN='| highlight --line-numbers -qs candy --out-format=xterm256 --stdout -i %s'

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lemmy.ml

Sys env. It adds syntax highlighting to less. Needs the highlight tool of course, there are others.

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tetris11reply
lemmy.ml

oh, it literally pipes into another tool! I thought that vertical bar was a config option for less lmao

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less or bat, but I usually use by paging up and down so it's not that different from more... My terminal emulator only pages up and down, I like it that way.

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Less, then "vim -" after I realize I don't know how to use less.

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I like that more behaves like cat when there's less than a page of output rather than requiring you to press q to get back to the prompt even when it would just fit.

There's probably a way to make less do that too, but more already does it without configuration. Overall I use less most of the time but I like having the option.

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piefed.jeena.net

I thought Less is More?

But because it comes first that is what I usually use.

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tetris11reply
lemmy.ml

I use less always, and am genuinely puzzled by people who use more

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Old habits die hard? I used to administer old SunOS machines that didn’t have less (and would take considerable effort to install on all of the machines) so these days I just alias more to less

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I use more because I learned more first. Now it's in muscle memory, so I won't change anytime soon.

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Isn't more like the main driver for our prospering civilization?

Some might say that the shift in desiring less is the downward path for the over-saturated humanity.

But lets not get too deep here.

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thebrainbin.org

Those are two pager programs on Linux. less has more features than more and that's what most people use.

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Allows you to scroll through / view a text file in the terminal.

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Yes, back in days of yore when the cyberbunnies had to run their lines through the bare wastes of the great Dave's router, there existed a tool so coveted by the eunuchs that they named it twice, and would beg for degrees of release depending on how gimped up they were. "More" some would scream, "less" others would whisper.

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