about less [was: Can someone explain the output from lsusb here?]

[Siggy Brentrup]

On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 01:52:18PM +0200, Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> Dotan Cohen:
> 
> >> How about good old "/usr/bin/less", works even on terminals w/o
> >> scrollback.
> >> Just try
> >>  less -S +F <path to logfile>

[...]

> BTW: -S make less chop long lines. That isn't what I normally want. But
> decide for yourself.

Not quite excatly, it only hides the portion that doesn't fit
on the screen; when at the command prompt you can scroll
horizontally using the arrow keys.

That fits my normal use case where I let logs scroll by; when
interesting things show up: ^C into command mode and look at
the details, YMMV.

thanks
  Siggy