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I'm surprised there aren't more pagers besides `less` and `more`. Alternatives I've found online: - https://linux.die.net/man/1/most (multiple files/windows at once) - https://github.com/sharkdp/bat (uses `less` under the hood, syntax highlighting and git diffs) - https://linux.die.net/man/1/lesskey (add parameters to `less`) - https://github.com/ivanov/kanten (looks abandoned) - "Just use vim" (and vim's paging is r…
One feature I discovered recently in less that I'm always using now is filtering: type '&' and then the thing you're looking for, and less will only show matching lines.
I'm surprised there aren't more pagers besides `less` and `more`. Alternatives I've found online: - https://linux.die.net/man/1/most (multiple files/windows at once) - https://github.com/sharkdp/bat (uses `less` under the hood, syntax highlighting and git diffs) - https://linux.die.net/man/1/lesskey (add parameters to `less`) - https://github.com/ivanov/kanten (looks abandoned) - "Just use vim" (and vim's paging is r…
ov looks really nice and probable deserves a try. I like the section thing, it's going to be useful for diffs to go file by file. One feature I discovered recently in less that I'm always using now is filtering: type '&' and then the thing you're looking for, and less will only show matching lines.
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If the log-file viewing capabilities look interesting to you, check out lnav, which is built for that and excels at it: https://lnav.org/
One very useful feature for this I didn't see listed for lnav was to support adjusting for timestamps in different timezones, like maybe you have a desktop's log in local time that you're trying to reconcile with servers. (A related but less-important bonus would be to be able to specify smaller arbitrary clock drift/offsets for each log.)
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