[Nottingham] newbie Hi!

[Alex Tibbles]

--- Michael Erskine <perl at tecspy.com> wrote:

> Alex Tibbles wrote:
> > Just be careful how big the file is - multi-gig
> logs
> > files should not be searched with less in my
> > experience. I think it holds all the paged data in
> > memory. 
> 
> I don't know the circumstances of your experience
> but mine (and the 
> manpage) indicates otherwise: I regularly page and
> tail massive files 
> with less.

Well then, I must have been doing something
wrong/stupid. Or perhaps using a very old/ bad version
of less.

Alex


		
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