[H-GEN] Useful not so obvious tips

[Anthony Towns]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 02:54:30PM +1000, Greg Black wrote:
> Then I adjust stuff until it narrows it down to a likely set of
> file names and then do
>     find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l newstuff | xargs -0 less

I tend to find:

    less $(find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l newstuff)

preferable here -- otherwise you're relying on less noticing that it can't
use stdin to talk to you (stdin has already been taken over by the pipe to
xargs) and making use of /dev/tty. Which is fine for less, but can cause
problems for other programs, which naturally don't come to mind right now.

(Ctrl-A gets you to the start of a line to add the `less $(', Ctrl-E to
the end of it, btw)

Cheers,
aj

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