Re: strange "less" behaviour on big files

From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des_at_des.no)
Date: 01/24/04

  • Next message: William M. Grim: "Re: symlink: /home -> /usr/home vs. /home -> usr/home in default installation" 
    To: sapdb@komadev.de
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 21:34:10 +0100

    Kai Mosebach <kai@freshx.de> writes:
    > i lessed a 1.0 gig file filled with zeros and less seems to slurp in
    > as much as it can get at one time!

    AFAIK, it tries to read one entire line; since your file doesn't
    contain any line feed characters, it ends up reading the entire file.

    DES 

    -- 
Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no
_______________________________________________
freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
  • Next message: William M. Grim: "Re: symlink: /home -> /usr/home vs. /home -> usr/home in default installation"