From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S0flx-0001Oi-Iz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:00:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 99348E0F76; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:00:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 936F1E0F4D for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:59:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 85C0C80764 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:58:57 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:58:56 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dog - man's best friend. Message-ID: <20120223205856.6fb441a7@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20120223204200.GE2834@acm.acm> References: <20120223204200.GE2834@acm.acm> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0cvs29 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/T2ah+B63sVBR1RTMtfFydhP"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 7522dfac-4a23-40e6-8095-1482ebc2e716 X-Archives-Hash: 6a7b20fc43a8d3047f65d53c08640944 --Sig_/T2ah+B63sVBR1RTMtfFydhP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:42:00 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: If the subject is true, why does your dog have no man page? > I've finally been pushed over the edge. I simply can't stand it any > longer. The "it" in this case is viewing a file or process output and > either: (a) using less, and have it take just 10 screen lines; (b) using > cat etc., and have the interesting part scroll away. >=20 > To solve this dilemma, I've written dog, a short script that will splat > lines to the screen if they're few enough, invoke less otherwise.=20 % eix -e dog [I] sys-apps/dog Available versions: 1.7-r4{tbz2} Installed versions: 1.7-r4{tbz2}(15:54:25 20/12/11) Homepage: http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-apps/dog Description: Dog is better than cat --=20 Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 27: Military Intelligence --Sig_/T2ah+B63sVBR1RTMtfFydhP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk9GqJAACgkQum4al0N1GQN4EACfcV97/lFQCiJdQ7Xt9oIVobkB uuIAoMWjrJBCI6kYHE06/ji9iG3/AlC7 =FRfG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/T2ah+B63sVBR1RTMtfFydhP--