Comments on: Less is more: the hidden treasure of less command

By: jp

jp — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:13:18 +0000

if i use “ls -l | less -C” option, the output it shows covers the full screen. But i want only the output of that command alone, which will be less than half page. What is the option to give with less? Thanks.

By: LinuxTitli

LinuxTitli — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 20:45:00 +0000

Okai typo fixed. Thanks for the heads up

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 20:20:00 +0000

Hello,

it seems those are features of the cutting edge less 394.

With less 382 I seem to have no “lessfile” nor “lesspipe”.
8-(

Those features would be nice to have.

Anyway, nice article. 8-)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 18:36:00 +0000

$ less foo.rmp
should be
$ less foo.rpm

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:48:00 +0000

less SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD1.iso

CD-ROM is in ISO 9660 format
System id: LINUX
Volume id: SU930.F01
Volume set id:
Publisher id: Novell, Inc.
Data preparer id: CD-Team, http://www.suse.de/feedback
Application id: SuSE-Linux-Professional-FTP-i386-9.3#0
Copyright File id:
Abstract File id:
Bibliographic File id:
Volume set size is: 1
Volume set sequence number is: 1
Logical block size is: 2048
Volume size is: 356178
El Torito VD version 1 found, boot catalog is in sector 265
Joliet with UCS level 3 found
Rock Ridge signatures version 1 found
Eltorito validation header:
Hid 1
Arch 0 (x86)
ID ‘Novell, Inc.’
Key 55 AA
Eltorito defaultboot header:
Bootid 88 (bootable)
Boot media 0 (No Emulation Boot)
Load segment 0
Sys type 0
Nsect 4
Bootoff 10A 266

/ARCHIVES.gz
/COPYING
/COPYING.de
/COPYRIGHT
/COPYRIGHT.de
/ChangeLog

*Sweet*

By: goku

goku — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:43:00 +0000

I am using Gentoo and it worke after upgrading less version :) may be you need an updated version of less.

Nice find especially displaying a PDF/doc files over remote ssh session. Last time I had to configure qmail and all information was in a PDF file. Therefore, I had taken printout of over 30+ pages from windows box.

By: LinuxTitli

LinuxTitli — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:38:00 +0000

Hi there,

less –version
less 394

I hope you have added following line to your .bash_profile (shell startup file):
eval “$(lessfile)”

Hope this helps.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:41:00 +0000

Hello,

may I ask what wonderous version of less you are using?

When viewing .jpg or .iso file less asks me “may be a binary file. See it anyway?” and then displays binary gibberish. 8-(

$ less –Version
less 382+iso254
….