From: krewat@kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat)
Subject: [TUHS] pre-more pager?
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 17:47:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54e07b8e-15ee-5786-bda0-533003aab69a@kilonet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1711090940510.4766@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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On 11/8/2017 5:43 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>
>> cat filename | head -20 # get the first page.
>> cat filename | head -40 | tail -20 # get the second page.
>
> Arrgghh!! Unnecessary use of a cat pipe!
>
cat added for clarity. Ok, not. I'm just dumb.
head -20 < filename
head -40 < filename | tail -20
Better? ;)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-08 22:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-08 18:54 Will Senn
2017-11-08 18:59 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-08 19:06 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-08 19:31 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2017-11-08 22:43 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-08 22:47 ` Arthur Krewat [this message]
2017-11-08 23:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-09 4:38 ` Will Senn
2017-11-09 13:18 ` Dan Cross
2017-11-09 14:29 ` Will Senn
2017-11-09 20:53 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-10 0:15 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-10 2:14 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-08 19:12 ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-08 19:22 ` Random832
2017-11-08 21:18 ` Will Senn
2017-11-08 21:59 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-08 22:00 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-08 22:18 ` Will Senn
2017-11-09 2:01 ` Steve Johnson
2017-11-09 2:16 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-11-08 19:29 ` Forrest, Jon
2017-11-08 19:43 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-08 21:03 ` Mark Green
2017-11-08 19:23 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-08 20:02 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-08 20:11 ` Forrest, Jon
2017-11-10 5:26 ` Random832
2017-11-10 7:31 ` Otto Moerbeek
2017-11-08 20:18 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-08 20:28 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-08 22:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-08 20:28 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-08 22:02 Paul Ruizendaal
2017-11-08 22:20 ` Will Senn
2017-11-08 22:58 Doug McIlroy
2017-11-09 13:33 Doug McIlroy
2017-11-09 16:19 Norman Wilson
2017-11-09 16:48 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-09 17:19 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-11-09 18:15 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-09 18:26 ` Arthur Krewat
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