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   R Daneel Olivaw to All   
   Text-Searching in "less"   
   11 Feb 25 09:44:48   
   
   From: Danny@hyperspace.vogon.gov   
      
    From the "man" page:   
      
   > /pattern   
   >               Search forward in the file for the N-th line containing the   
   pattern.  N  defaults  to  1.   
   >               The pattern is a regular expression, as recognized by the   
   regular expression library sup-   
   >               plied by your system.  By default, searching is case-sensitive   
   (uppercase  and  lowercase   
   >               are  considered  different); the -i option can be used to   
   change this.  The search starts   
   >               at the first line displayed (but see the -a and -j options,   
   which change this).   
   >   
      
   I'm running Leap 15.6 (which is where that man page extract came from)   
   and noticed that my searches are case-insensitive.  Of course I do not   
   have -i set but it is possible that OpenSUSE generously sets that option   
   for me via an alias.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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