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|    marrgol to All    |
|    Re: Text-Searching in "less"    |
|    11 Feb 25 15:00:01    |
      From: marrgol@address.invalid              On 2025-02-11 at 13:41 Carlos E.R. wrote:       >> 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).       >       >       > And where do you enter that 'N'?       > First time I read this.              From the top of the "man" page:              DESCRIPTION        […] Commands may be preceded by a decimal number, called N in        the descriptions below. The number is used by some commands,        as indicated.              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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