[Babase] Conversion errors and less commands

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Fri Feb 17 12:45:37 EST 2006


On 02/17/2006 10:59:17 AM, Leah Gerber wrote:
> Hello Karl,
> 
> I am trying to tackle the next round of conversion errors.  To find  
> details about a particular error from the "error" file I am trying to  
> find the line number in the "loadscript" file.  I am opening the file  
> with "less" and using the commands
> 
> $ g linenumber  or $ G linenumber
> 
> One searches from the beginning of the file forward  and the other  
> from the end backwards.
> 
> Because this is such a huge file it  actually takes about 10 minutes  
> (or more) to get to a particular line number. Is there another way we  
> can do this?  If we have to do it this way I will be here until I am  
> very old and grey!

Type the number first and then the g or G.
( Commands marked with * may be preceded by a number, N.)
What's taking so long is that it's typing everything
to the screen.

Karl <kop at meme.com>
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                  -- Robert A. Heinlein



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