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|    Carlos E.R. to marrgol    |
|    Re: Text-Searching in "less"    |
|    11 Feb 25 15:12:58    |
      From: robin_listas@es.invalid              On 2025-02-11 15:00, marrgol wrote:       > 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.              Ah, thanks :-)              --       Cheers, Carlos.              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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