| 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 4 | %general-entities;
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| 5 | ]>
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| 6 | <sect1 id="ch-system-less" xreflabel="Less">
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| 7 | <title>Less-&less-version;</title>
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| 8 | <?dbhtml filename="less.html"?>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-less"><primary sortas="a-Less">Less</primary></indexterm>
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| 11 |
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| 12 | <para>The Less package contains a text file viewer.</para>
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| 13 |
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| 14 | <screen>&buildtime; 0.1 SBU
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| 15 | &diskspace; 3.4 MB</screen>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | <para>Less installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
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| 18 | GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed.</para>
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| 19 |
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| 20 |
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| 21 |
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| 22 | <sect2>
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| 23 | <title>Installation of Less</title>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <para>Prepare Less for compilation:</para>
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| 26 |
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| 27 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --sysconfdir=/etc</userinput></screen>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <para>The meaning of the configure option:</para>
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| 30 |
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| 31 | <itemizedlist>
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| 32 | <listitem><para><userinput>--sysconfdir=/etc</userinput>: This option tells the
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| 33 | programs created by the package to look in <filename>/etc</filename> for their
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| 34 | configuration files.</para></listitem>
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| 35 | </itemizedlist>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 38 |
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| 39 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 40 |
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| 41 | <para>Now install it:</para>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 44 |
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| 45 | </sect2>
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| 46 |
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| 47 |
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| 48 | <sect2 id="contents-less"><title>Contents of Less</title>
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| 49 |
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| 50 | <para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: less, lessecho and lesskey</para>
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| 51 |
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| 52 | </sect2>
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| 53 |
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| 54 |
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| 55 | <sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
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| 56 |
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| 57 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-less less"><primary sortas="b-less">less</primary></indexterm>
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| 58 | <para id="less"><command>less</command> is a file viewer or pager. It displays the
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| 59 | contents of the given file, letting you scroll around, find strings, and jump
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| 60 | to marks.</para>
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| 61 |
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| 62 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-less lessecho"><primary sortas="b-lessecho">lessecho</primary></indexterm>
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| 63 | <para id="lessecho"><command>lessecho</command> is needed to expand meta-characters,
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| 64 | such as * and ?, in filenames on Unix systems.</para>
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| 65 |
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| 66 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-less lesskey"><primary sortas="b-lesskey">lesskey</primary></indexterm>
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| 67 | <para id="lesskey"><command>lesskey</command> is used to specify the key bindings
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| 68 | for less.</para>
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| 69 |
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| 70 | </sect2>
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| 71 |
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| 72 |
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| 73 |
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| 74 | </sect1>
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