Re: Effectively detaching 'less' from a pipe
"Larry W. Wood" <[email protected]>
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On Feb 26, 07, at 8:27 PM, Kelly Jones wrote: > I often run commands piped to 'less', to make sure the command is > working OK by looking at the first few lines of output. Don't use "less". Use "head" instead: command | head -n N (where N is the number of lines of the output you want to see) HTH! -- Woody _______________________________________________ NMLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.nmlug.org/mailman/listinfo/nmlug