[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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