I use "less" to read log files, but I have
noticed that on my RH7.3 mail server when a log
file starts getting up there in size (50M? 100M?
I'm not sure where it starts) I lose some
functionality. For instance, normally I hit
Shift-> to go to the bottom of the file, and then
use "?" to search upward for the last instance of
some string. But on larger files, Shift-> is
unable to take me to the bottom. It just sort of
stops, and when I hit Cntrl-C I get the message
"Cannot seek to end of file (Press Return)".
Pressing return just drops you back into the
pager, where you were. Trying a search from the
top for something you know is right near the
bottom also fails. So I've resorted to
workarounds using tail -4000 and grep and other
such silliness, but that doesn't give me
everything I need. I need to be able to hold the
whole file in my buffer and move around in it.
Can anyone recommend a good tool to be able to
view and search large files? Or tell me what I'm
doing wrong with less? Thanks!
Scott
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