der.hans wrote:
> moin moin,
>
> I wanted to look at the binary content for a pdf, so I lessed it. I got
> the text of the pdf. Hmm, type $file.pdf claimed it's pdf.
>
> cat $file.pdf | less showed it to be pdf.
>
> Apparently less can now produce the text from pdf files :).
>
> I verified this works on Ubuntu 6.06 ( others verified more recent
> releases ) and debian stable.
>
> evince gives much nicer output, but for the times when I just want a quick
> view of the content or want to search for a string it'll be great to use
> less!
As I've said:
"'less' is 'more' but less, with more, more or less." ;^)
Alan
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