[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (MORE)
- From: knura@xxxxxxxxx (Arun Khan)
- Date: Tue Jun 3 16:40:19 2008
On Tuesday 03 Jun 2008, ashok sezhiyan wrote:
absolutely - less is much better - it would be more helpful if one
can edit a file with less - so we need not use 'vi' especially for
big text files..(sed -i is an option but less is less memory
intensive)
You can edit a file using less... just press ' v ' :-)
the v puts the "less" buffer into the editor of your choice
vi/emacs/pico etc. (EDITOR variable). Editing capability referenced
above is within the "less" tool itself.
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Arun Khan
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