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[Jack Kern]

Joe Klemmer wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 10:47, Jack Kern wrote:
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>>If you pipe your output to /usr/bin/less, the right and left arrow keys 
>>might do what you want.
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>>For example:
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>>jkern at boat:~$ cat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/fonts.alias | less
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>>Or
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>>jkern at boat:~$ < /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/fonts.alias  less
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>Or the must easier and cleaner -
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>$ less /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/fonts.alias
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Yes, easier and cleaner but not relevant to the solution.  Although my 
example was also not quite apt, the original problem had to do with 
output from a program.

"ls -l  |  less"  or   "dmesg  | less"   would be a more applicable 
example, as he needs the pipe.