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Re: Updated: texinfo 4.1


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Robert Mark Bram wrote:

> Howdy all!
> 
> Read the documentation.. made my .bashrc script!
> 
> Here it is so far:
> 
> function ll
> {
>    ls -l
> }
> 
> function m
> {
>    man $1 | less
> }


Why do you insist on piping the output of man to less? It's unnecessary 
as man will use whatever is in PAGER.


> Any one have any other nice tricks they use in theirs?


There are thousands of them!




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