by damonp on October 25, 2005
in General
I watched the movie Crash this weekend. The story examines the different sides and varying degrees of many different racial backgrounds. The story was gritty and intriguing.
America is an experiment. The first truly multi-cultural experiment in history. History shows us countless examples of multi-cultural societies as a result of war and colonialism. Where is one that was founded purposefully on the basis of ‘All men are created equal’? Even though the phrase ‘All men’ has evolved significantly in the last 150 years, the beauty our founding fathers installed in our constitution was the ability to grow.
Crash shows us we still have a lot of growth to embrace.
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by damonp on October 25, 2005
in SysAdmin
Less and more are two Unix command line tools for paging through large files, viewing the output from commands, searching logfiles, viewing man pages, etc.
Less can do everything that more can plus it can do more and it can do it better. Its like more v2, better thought out. Not only with more features, but better implemented base featues. Both can page through files forward (f) or backward (b). Both allow searching and some form of regular expression matching.
Less can read some binary files, like tar archives and RPMs (try a less somefile.tar.gz to see a listing of the filenames contained in the archive).
With less you can pass a text file directly off to vim at the current line for a quick edit and then back less when complete.
To use less as your default pager (for man files etc.) add this to your .bashrc:
export PAGER=’less’
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