[NTLUG:Discuss] More from the Saturday topic of "Less is More..."

[brad angelcyk]

# less /proc/cpuinfo | grep -i intel
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel

On 4/19/05, Stuart Johnston <saj at thecommune.net> wrote:
> Chris J Albertson wrote:
> > When the topic of Less came up in the 10AM training class, I raised the
> > question of if Less would append data to a "live" file being viewed. The
> > answer is Yes. When you open a log file for a running process with less,
> > the new data will be added to the existing less session whenever a
> > command is issued to less by the user.
> > Think   tail -f   with the ability to search like vi.
> 
> Hey, that's uber-nifty!  Looks to me like you can hit 'R' to refresh or
> 'F' to auto-refresh and scroll forward.
> 
> Thanks for the tip!  Now how about a way to combine that with a grep?
> 
> -Stuart
> 
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